			    TRAVELLER Digest 483

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Traveller 2300 by broussa@ConnectI.com (David C. Broussard)
  2) Re: Airframes and Contra-grav by "David J. Golden" <goldendj@whip.com>
  3) shameless advertising, no, wait, community service by "Glenn M. Goffin" <ggoffin@igc.apc.org>
  4) Base codes? by PPUGLIESE@pimacc.pima.edu
  5) I-1102 Corrections by Michael Bailey <pd82495@wapol.gov.au>
  6) A)Radio Astronomy B)Temporary Red Zones... by Alvin Plummer <alvin.plummer@sheridanc.on.ca>
  7) My ftp site by Joseph Heck <ccjoe@showme.missouri.edu>

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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 21:54:12 -0600
From: broussa@ConnectI.com (David C. Broussard)
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: Traveller 2300
Message-ID: <9511140354.AA20647@ConnectI.com>

2300AD is the actual name of this product.  It was origianaly called
Traveller 2300 and was set 300 years after Twillight 2000.  It used a new
game system that had fun detailed but quick charater generation, and was
GDW's first foray into the D10 world.  They did a good job with the game,
especially with the background.  If you want excellent aliens, fleshed out
worlds, and a fairly realistic Colonial System combined with good space
combat (inertialess drives), and a plethora of weapons, then 2300AD is the
game for you.  There is still a bit of source material around, and GDW
"promises" to update the material for the new "house system".

Perhaps the finest point of the game is that GDW uses the actual stars
around Sol to build the universe.  They use a 3D starmap to show the tracks
humans have taken out to the stars.  The aliens are diverse and strange.
There is only 1 race that has achieved star travel, and they are implacable
foes.  

The one comment a friend of mine had for it was "its sort of like Aliens."

I rather liked it, but it is definately not Space Opera.
DCB
David C. Broussard (broussa@connecti.com)
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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 21:45:03 -0700
From: "David J. Golden" <goldendj@whip.com>
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: Re: Airframes and Contra-grav
Message-ID: <199511140445.AA21984@ns-1.csn.net>

At 08:12 pm 11/12/95 -0500, you wrote:
>         2)      Does an airframe hull provide aerodynamic lift?  The 1.3x

        I'd always thought so.
 ___________________________________________________________________
  Dave Golden                              PGP Public Key available
  goldendj@whip.com        http://www2.csn.net/~goldendj/index.html

 "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his
  enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes
  a precedent that will reach to himself" -- Thomas Paine


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Date:          Mon, 13 Nov 1995 21:03:39 +0000
From: "Glenn M. Goffin" <ggoffin@igc.apc.org>
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: shameless advertising, no, wait, community service
Message-ID: <199511140504.VAA20439@igc3.igc.apc.org>

Someone asked about Traveller:2300.  I have multiple copies 
of some supplements in mint condition that I would be 
willing to sell or trade.  Email me (I guess that's better 
than "let's do lunch").
--Glenn

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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 03:41:50 -0700
From: PPUGLIESE@pimacc.pima.edu
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: Base codes?
Message-ID: <01HXMAU5S98O8Y5Y11@pimacc.pima.edu>

Could someone post or e-mail to me a listing of what the
codes for bases used in the sector listings mean? I am
without access to my Trav. materials for a while.

thanks, Phil

ppugliese@pimacc.pima.edu


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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 19:46:50 -1600
From: Michael Bailey <pd82495@wapol.gov.au>
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: I-1102 Corrections
Message-ID: <9511141144.AA05410@phq1002.wapol.gov.au>

Re...did I miss something?

No Hyphen, you didn't.  I did, I missed the part where I check my posting to
see that everything's OK.  The corrected cargo space is 103.23 m^3.

Mick

Michael Bailey (pd82495@wapol.gov.au)

"...bunch of degenerate, brain damaged animals..."
attributed to Prime Minister Paul Keating (the Right Honourable)


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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 08:01:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Alvin Plummer <alvin.plummer@sheridanc.on.ca>
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: A)Radio Astronomy B)Temporary Red Zones...
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.951114075750.8184C-100000@hubble.sheridanc.on.ca>


From: jamesd@spirit.com.au (James Dempsey)

> With all of the emphasis of wilds exploration being on "lets just send a
> ship out and see what we find", what about the possibilities of radio
> astronomy?

Quite possible.  At least you could find out if there is any current 
technological civilization there: I there are no spare starships, this 
may also me the only means of contact with the outside universe.

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From: "Glenn M. Goffin" <ggoffin@igc.apc.org>
> To: traveller@MPGN.COM
> Subject: Re: TRAVELLER digest 481
> Message-ID: <199511131404.GAA28650@igc3.igc.apc.org>
> 
> > From: Alvin Plummer <alvin.plummer@sheridanc.on.ca>
> 
> > Glenn Goffin noted that Red Zones can indeed be on
> > worlds with starports, as they can be A) erected for
> > temporary emergencies 
> 
> Not to be totally flaming you, Alvin, but what I said was
> that Red Zones can be designated during emergencies on
> worlds with pre-existing starports.  A starport is too
> permanent a structure to be erected temporarily.
> 
> --Glenn
> 

Sorry: I mean that the Red Zone can be errected temporarily.
Out of curiosity, couldn't "E" ports be errected temporarily? (Seeing 
that they use so little equipement anyways..."

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Alvin Plummer
"Preserve what we created, Norris, and remember what we stood for."
                               - Strephon, 179-1126

Reply to: alvin.plummer@SHERIDANC.ON.CA
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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 12:21:56 -0600 (CST)
From: Joseph Heck <ccjoe@showme.missouri.edu>
To: traveller@MPGN.COM (TML Submissions),
Subject: My ftp site
Message-ID: <199511141821.MAA95750@black.missouri.edu>

Bad news - my ftp site is being dissolved - at least temporarily.

The machine is has been running on was "requistioned" back into use at
the University, and I can no longer afford the time lags to keep an archive
on my desktop machine. I'm hoping to keep at least some of the material
available through the WWW, but at this time it's pretty limited.

There's a chance I'll be able to reinstate the archive after the machine
is up and running again - if so, I'll certainly announce it.

Otherwise, it's down as of today.
-- 
 joe                          (314) 882-5000
 ccjoe@showme.missouri.edu    University of Missouri - Columbia  
 "with a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and
 impenetrable fog!" -- Calvin
 <A HREF="http://www.missouri.edu/~ccjoe">ccjoe</A>

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