Hello Rupert,
> On 06/26/2020 4:28 PM Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
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> On 27Jun2020 0811, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml
> list) wrote:
> > Actually, the way I've *always* played it since I first read about
> > "charging capacitors while using Black Globes" in CT HG (c.1980), is
> > that once the capacitors are charged w/ enough energy to make even a
> > J1 possible, the ship can jump unless there's been some other damage
> > (JDrive, etc) that would preclude a jump.
> > "Enough fuel", in my mind, just means the usual, minimal in comparison
> > to jump requirements, amount required to sustain 1 week of routine
> > ship ops.
>
> An interpretation, is that when a Black Globe charges up the capacitors
> it's doing what you normally need the ship's power plant to do (so, this
> assumes HG, LLB '81, T4, etc. with their requirement for power from the
> main power plant). Thus it simply removes that charging requirement and
> the time to do this. Normal jump fuel requirements would thus remain,
> with no reduction.
I agree with the interpretation.
>
> If you go with MT and other versions that require no power from the
> power plant it's harder to explain, and probably requires making some
> ruling on how much of the jump fuel goes to 'power and coolant' vs
> 'displacement mass' (to use the TNE/FF&S terms). Personally I doubt it
> would be very much.

You are correct that the MT jump drive does not draw power from the ship's power plant.

The reason why an MT jump drive does not draw power from the ship's power plant is easily explained per MT Referee's Manual p. 58 is that "Jump drives are themselves a special high-yield power plant linked to an integral net in the craft's hull for initiating and maintain the jump field. Because a jump drive is also a power plant, it must be allocated fuel separate and distinct from the ship's power plant."

Note an errors in the quoted section is the fault of the typist.

Tom Rux