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And, the IN's J6 Fleet Couriers would also be very helpful in maintaining contact.
Immensely more so than the Scout Service's J2 Courier/Scouts.

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On Sat, 2/13/16, William Ewing (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Instant city
 To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Saturday, February 13, 2016, 11:26 PM

 This email was sent from yahoo.com which does
 not allow forwarding of emails via email lists. Therefore
 the sender's email address (xxxxxx@yahoo.com) has been
 replaced with a dummy one.
 They can
 and would implement something as close to that as possible.
 I gave current, real-world terms. In Traveller, they would
 naturally have to modify the idea some. For example,
 whenever in a system with xboat service, transmit, prior to
 jump, your movement report. If you don't show up, it
 helps narrow down where and when you went missing. If
 there's no xboat, is there a Scout base? An IN base? Or
 a military data drop on planet? Yes, it
 won't work *as well* as it does today, but that's no
 excuse for throwing up hands and declining to even try to
 apply some risk mitigation. 

 From:
 "Bruce Johnson"
 <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU>
 To:
 "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 6:06:59
 PM
 Subject:
 Re: [TML] Instant city

 The Imperium CANNOT DO THIS. The
 most recent information the IN can possibly have of a ship
 that is not in a particular system is 7 days old. That
 increases by 7 days for every two parsecs (presuming the use
 of J2 Scouts/Couriers for comms) farther away the ship is.
 And they cannot get something *back* to where the ship was
 supposed to be except in the same time.

 The existence of jump lag prevents this
 kind of close command and control; HQ might be *months*
 behind the front lines.

 The absolute worst case of a misjump is
 36 parsecs, which is 107 days away from where a ship is
 supposed to be at J2.

 That’s roughly 4 months.

 The IN operates like Admiral Nelson’s
 Navy, not Admiral Halsey’s.
 --
 Bruce Johnson
 University of
 Arizona
 College of Pharmacy
 Information Technology Group

 Institutions do not have
 opinions, merely customs

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