Do the Steward/Chief Steward feats find passengers where it's normally impossible?

[Morte]

THB p49 Chief Steward feat: "Adds 1d3 High, 1d6 Middle, and 1d6+3 Low passengers to the number requesting travel aboard ship".

THB p357 Passengers table
Content: no pax at pop 0, no HiPax at pop 1
Modifiers: Amber zone: -12 pax, with no MidPax or LoPax

Which wins?

The feat is worded as universal and additional, i.e. if read literally you would get you 1d6 MidPax on a world with zero population who want to go to an Amber zone (rather than a hardwired zero without the feat).

Personally, I'd rather say it only generates the extra passengers in situations where it is normally possible to generate passengers.

What do people think? I need to decide how to handle this in my pax/freight/spec software.

 

[CarlP]

Clearly this calls for a Steward Mind Trick.

"You don't need to stay on this dustball.
This isn't the planet you want to live on.
Move along."

And there just happens to be passage on an outbound ship available....

carl

 

[DaveChase]

I would say that your Chief Steward has the most uncanny luck and he found some stranded souls on that airless world that are looking for a lift and are willing to pay for it ROFL


I would say that the chance has to positive before you could add to the factor in this case

Dave

 

[roldar]

I'd say that usually a Chief Steward could only find passangers on a planet where there were people. So if there are no people on a planet then there'd be no passangers. If there was even a very small colonial base then there might be half or even 1/3 his ability to gain passangers if the rolls were good enough. Or maybe they can find the usual amount of low passangers and half the middle and no or just a few high. Thats just my .02 creds.