Re: [TML]Tracking spaceships in Jump TU, was: Instant city Phil Pugliese 15 Feb 2016 14:26 UTC

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Nobody's standing in the way of anything. You can imagine whatever you want & call it what you want.
You can even call it Traveller, if you want.
But, here on the TML, you can't expect to propose changes to the long standing principles that underlie & support the very nature of the TU that we've come to know & love w/o encountering vigorous objection.

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On Sun, 2/14/16, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML]Tracking spaceships in Jump TU, was: Instant city
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Sunday, February 14, 2016, 1:44 PM

 Phil, it seems to me
 TU is about what players can imagine, rather than what they
 cannot. Design and designer should not stand in the way of
 that.
 Greg
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 On Sun, 2/14/16, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com>
 wrote:

  Subject: Re: [TML]Tracking spaceships in Jump TU, was:
 Instant city

  To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com"
 <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>

  Date: Sunday, February 14, 2016, 12:22 AM

  On 13 February 2016 at

  14:26, Craig Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com>

  wrote:

  It's well established by canon

  that 100dt is the lower boundary on what can enter

  Jump.

  ​Why?

  Its the start

  of 21st century and we can 3D-print a fully-functioning
 jet

  engine the size of a microwave oven.

  Why can't

  at TL15 the IN not produce some way of tracking their
 ships

  backwards in Jump space?

  I'm having

  a real hard time accepting that in a TL15 world, travel

  works based on 17th century concepts (its not even Lord

  Nelson)

  Cheers

  Greg​

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 In that case, I can't imagine why you would even bother
 w/ the TU(tm) cuz that's the way it is in the TU(tm)
 & changing all that would yield a result that would
 definitely NOT be the TU(tm), or even a reasonable
 facsimile,  anymore.

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