Re: [TML] A small ship TU and a view of jump travel that creates it Rupert Boleyn (30 Jun 2020 02:55 UTC)
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Re: [TML] A small ship TU and a view of jump travel that creates it Rupert Boleyn 30 Jun 2020 02:54 UTC


On 30Jun2020 1324, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml
list) wrote:
> Sticking to a requirement that a ship, which has it's capacitors
> charged, has to have onboard an amount of fuel that *would* have been
> used up if the capacitors had nor been charged, is just plain silly.
>
> Why would a ship which, under normal circumstances, would have pretty
> much emptied its tanks anyway not be able to jump with the same tanks
> empty?
>
> Nope, the rule simply means that there must be 'sufficient fuel'
> present to power the power plant.
>
> Which might not be that case if there had been been battle damage.
>
> Black Globe charging is thus the same as using d-tanks.
> It provides a way to initiate a jump regardless of whether or not
> enough fuel for that jump is present.
>
> Now if the LBB had said "enough fuel is present for that jump" it
> would be a different story, but that is not the case.
So why do ships with Black Globes need jump fuel at all?

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