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It strikes me that these 'collectors' must be incredible efficient!

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On Wed, 5/18/16, xxxxxx@comcast.net <xxxxxx@comcast.net> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] L-Hyd not necessary for jumping & misc....
 To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2016, 4:35 PM

 Hello Craig Berry,

 The Annic Nova takes 1 to 6
 (1D) weeks to recharge the energy accumulators depending on
 the distance from and spectral type of the star serving as
 the radiation source.

 From:
 "Craig Berry"
 <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 To: "TML"
 <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Sent: Wednesday, May 18,
 2016 9:26:47 AM
 Subject: Re: [TML] L-Hyd
 not necessary for jumping & misc....

 As much as I love
 playing the "make ALL the canon consistent!!"
 game, I think we have to toss Annic Nova if we are to
 maintain any semblance of sanity in the background. Even if
 you handwave an explanation (my favorite is the usual dodge
 that its drive is a one-of-a-kind Ancient artifact), it
 makes no sense at all that reports of a ship that could jump
 without refueling didn't trigger an all out,
 every-ship-committed effort by the Imperium to locate the
 ship for study.
 <snipped material>

 The Annic Nova article is in JTAS 1
 on pp. 17-18. On p. 17 are three reported sights of the
 Annic Nova. The first sighting was in the Spinward Marches
 at Heya (0802) jumping out of the system while the scrambled
 fighters were at extreme range, followed a five week lay
 over at Kinorb (0602), and the last sighting was a Dentus
 (0601) an the five Type S Scouts/Couriers scrambled to
 intercept the ship got a bit of data.

 I have not checked out the chunk of
 space described but in the first two reports they had no
 data to work with, in the third report the scouts figured
 out that the unidentified ship is capable of J2. How are you
 going to search for a ship that is capable of J2?

 A ship that has fuel for a one J4
 could make a J2 jump enter the system and, not recommended
 in the rules, could jump out again utilizing fuel for a jump
 of 1 or 2 parsecs.

 Until the party boards the Annic
 Nova no one has enough information to know that the five
 week lay over it took 5 weeks to recharge the ship's
 accumulators to make a jump.

 The best that could been done was
 to alert all the worlds within a J2 radius of the sightings.
 Of course if the J3 drive gets used there goes the J2 radius
 of warning.

 Tom R
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