    TRAVELLER Digest 488

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Re: #AWP-01244: Tirem by "Kelly St.Clair" <kstclair@PEAK.ORG>
  2) Re: TRAVELLER digest 487 by "Glenn M. Goffin" <ggoffin@igc.apc.org>

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Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 15:51:34 -0800
From: "Kelly St.Clair" <kstclair@PEAK.ORG>
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: Re: #AWP-01244: Tirem
Message-ID: <199511182351.PAA08672@PEAK.ORG>


> According to the most common theory, the Belt is the result of the
> destruction of a small (size 22?) planet

I do hope you meant size 2.  Size 22 is hardly what I'd call small!

> Tirem is an elongated, misshapen brick of a world, with it's diameter
> varying from 3000 km to 22,000 km.  [...]  The 21.48 billion people
> who reside here...

Um... that sound you just heard was my reality check bouncing.

21.48 BILLION permanent residents on a planetoid like this?  I have to
  say that if you rolled this up fairly, this is one of the places that
  the aged and decript World Generation system breaks.

Heck, that many people and their life-support equipment would mass almost
  as much as the bloody "world".  Then again, this is my gut reaction.
  One of you number-crunchers want to try and justify this figure?

(Then again, a glance at the UWP seems to show a relatively normal world...
  which Tirem is definitely NOT, as described.  I'd like to know how a
  size 7 sphere became a 3x22 (?) ribbon, in the designer's mind.)


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Kelly St.Clair
kstclair@kira.peak.org

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Date:          Sat, 18 Nov 1995 18:14:05 +0000
From: "Glenn M. Goffin" <ggoffin@igc.apc.org>
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: Re: TRAVELLER digest 487
Message-ID: <199511190215.SAA17825@igc3.igc.apc.org>

. One thing I
> miss (from Path of Tears too) are Sector maps - Subsector maps are okay,
> but you really need larger ones to get a feel for the shape of things. It's
> like having maps of each individual state, and trying to figure out what
> the USA looks like. I guess it's a photocopier/scissors/selotape job...

It's worth the effort.  I enlarged the Spinward Marches map
from Megatraveller so that the subsectors are the same size
as in Supplement 3, and it's a very useful playing and
campaign designing aid.  It's also easier to read (black on
white) than the sector map that came with Megatraveller (or
the Domain of Deneb map that came with one of the
Megatraveller Journal issues).

--Glenn

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