The Authority, Human Space, & beyond
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Member states may have their own militaries, yes. Planetary/system navies are supposed to remain in their home systems unless coordinating with Authority naval assets.
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Denali Arms
Jungle Hunter 410/44
Manufactured in the RF Republic of Alyeska, Earth
Double-barreled percussion gun
400 mm
1800 g unloaded
Cr 150 in Sol System, prices run higher further away due to limited distribution
Breechloader (TL 10 materials and machining provide a robust seal on the TL 4 mechanism.)
The Jungle Hunter was manufactured for the hobby and sport market on Earth.
The Authority classifies this handgun as an 'archaic shotgun, semi-concealable'—meaning it can be open-carried at LL6.
One round to reload , per barrel.
Fires as shotgun, short range only, or as body pistol.
This is like an old howdah gun, but for man-sized and smaller critters, not big game. Simple mechanism made with high tech precision and materials.
Partial/shallow rifling.
Denali Arms
Jungle Hunter 410/44
Manufactured in the RF Republic of Alyeska, Earth
Double-barreled percussion gun
400 mm
1800 g unloaded
Cr 150 in Sol System, prices run higher further away due to limited distribution
Breechloader (TL 10 materials and machining provide a robust seal on the TL 4 mechanism.)
The Jungle Hunter was manufactured for the hobby and sport market on Earth.
The Authority classifies this handgun as an 'archaic shotgun, semi-concealable'—meaning it can be open-carried at LL6.
One round to reload , per barrel.
Fires as shotgun, short range only, or as body pistol.
This is like an old howdah gun, but for man-sized and smaller critters, not big game. Simple mechanism made with high tech precision and materials.
Partial/shallow rifling.
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Xerxeskingofking
SOC-13
the Russian Federation republic of Alyeska? Now, thats a story that needs explaining...…
I'd imagine if the supply is limited but gun sits in a niche that has demand among travellers, you might either see off world licensed production, or functionally identical models made by other manufactures. maybe the loophole it sits in is deliberately kept open by the Authority in order to A) sell these guns to starport workers and such and B) ensure that those people who desire a gun can get one of a known, and limited, ability, ensuring the Port Authority has an edge in firepower if things become uncivil (rather than going black market and buying something that can put a hole in cloth armour).
RE Alyeska
The RF (or its future successor) liberated and then annexed the state during the violent dissolution of the Democratic Union of North American States.
Alyeska retains a substantial degree of autonomy.
The Republic's culture reflects Russian, indigenous, and Old American influences.
RE jungle gun stuff
Good ideas.
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A minor quibble.
The Russian for Alaska is Аляска - which should be Alyaska (English) or Aljaska (most other germanic and/or romance languages), not Alyeska/Alieska - Alyeska is a native word, which was corrupted into Alyaska by 1800. (The native name was used for Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, but not a few native tribes were upset, because it's specifically an Aleut word, and the pipeline runs through Athabascan ("indian"), & Eyak and Inupiaq ("Eskimo") lands. (Note that the Aleut are neither "indian" nor eskimo.) It refers to the mainland.
Given Russian linguistic imperialism, it's unlikely any Russian would native-ize the traditional Russian form, especially since it's still the form used by the Alaskan Russian-speaking population, and the native form is technically dismissive, bordering on derogatory.
Edit for clarity: The dismissive sense comes from the fact that it was used to identify the lands of the non-unungan - unungan being aleut/unungan for the Aleutian people. Of further interest is that alutug is "heavy swells at sea"... at least one creation myth is that the islands were frozen out of the sea for the Unungan.
The Russian for Alaska is Аляска - which should be Alyaska (English) or Aljaska (most other germanic and/or romance languages), not Alyeska/Alieska - Alyeska is a native word, which was corrupted into Alyaska by 1800. (The native name was used for Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, but not a few native tribes were upset, because it's specifically an Aleut word, and the pipeline runs through Athabascan ("indian"), & Eyak and Inupiaq ("Eskimo") lands. (Note that the Aleut are neither "indian" nor eskimo.) It refers to the mainland.
Given Russian linguistic imperialism, it's unlikely any Russian would native-ize the traditional Russian form, especially since it's still the form used by the Alaskan Russian-speaking population, and the native form is technically dismissive, bordering on derogatory.
Edit for clarity: The dismissive sense comes from the fact that it was used to identify the lands of the non-unungan - unungan being aleut/unungan for the Aleutian people. Of further interest is that alutug is "heavy swells at sea"... at least one creation myth is that the islands were frozen out of the sea for the Unungan.
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I used an indigenous term on purpose, to suggest that the republic wasn't just 'more Russia' but I hadn't known the word in that form carries that meaning.
Alyaska it is, then.
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Psionics
The study of mental powers, which for historical reasons is indelibly linked in the minds of many with genocide, war crimes, terrorism, insanity, human experimentation, torture, drug abuse, dangerous cults, tyranny, and subversion.
See also
- Aerial sterilization
- DUNAS
- Egoist Purges
- Los Angeles Massacre
- Memetic Praxis
- Provolutionary Democracy
- Psionics Institutes
- Rocky Mountain Psychiatric Centre
- Suicide Plague
kilemall
SOC-14 5K
The bolded part is why I went a different direction with similar goals for MTU- everyone who wants to carry on the starport can do so, but are deputized and sworn in for 'reserve service'.
So BEING a form of LE (but only if 'called up'), they simultaneously have registered their guns with themselves, so it's all above board, they have gotten 'the talk' and know what the rules are and have committed to uphold the law, anybody sneaking anything around are clearly up to no good, and a TC starport is NOT the place to start a revolution/terror act/armed robbery.
An alternative method would be to allow weapons, but outlaw armor. A squishy society is a polite society.
Just seems consistent with a starfaring civilization that allows armed civilian ships within 10D of planets.
kilemall
SOC-14 5K
Sounds cool and makes sense.
I included use of star-ship weapons in a standard pilot's license for the reason you allude to in that last sentence: the ships themselves are dangerous potential weapons.
Starship weapons?
Or the 'carry what you like, but in the event of trouble you are all deputized'?
How do you handle these things IYTU (you have a Roman Traveller universe, right?_
I wish I had thought of the "persecuted X-men" angle on Traveller psionics.
I have, like, three different, abandoned ATUs. It's kinda my thing. :rofl: One of them is the Nova Roma thing.
My current ATU project is Main Sequence, which aims to turn most of the usual Traveller rules on their head.
I have, like, three different, abandoned ATUs. It's kinda my thing. :rofl: One of them is the Nova Roma thing.
My current ATU project is Main Sequence, which aims to turn most of the usual Traveller rules on their head.
Xerxeskingofking
SOC-13
maybe link the Authority being the primary mortgage lender for ship loans to the right to carry ship weapons and deputise the whole crew?
the ships are big, multi-million credit investments, and they are not going to lend them to just anybody. the ships weapons are in part to ensure the ship can survive conact with pirates and such, but part of the contract for the mortgage is a clause that lets the local Authority commander "activate" the ship and its crew for certain tasks, normally in exchange for a month or two knocked off the payment schedule (or a month or two's "credit" on it, so they get to keep evey penny they make)
as a GM, this gives you a quick and dirty plot hook to sling the players into an adventure, provided you don't overuse it, it might work well.
the ships are big, multi-million credit investments, and they are not going to lend them to just anybody. the ships weapons are in part to ensure the ship can survive conact with pirates and such, but part of the contract for the mortgage is a clause that lets the local Authority commander "activate" the ship and its crew for certain tasks, normally in exchange for a month or two knocked off the payment schedule (or a month or two's "credit" on it, so they get to keep evey penny they make)
as a GM, this gives you a quick and dirty plot hook to sling the players into an adventure, provided you don't overuse it, it might work well.
kilemall
SOC-14 5K
I always figured subsidized merchants got 'navalized' into auxiliary transport service in time of war, or planetary crisis.
Standard/high TL of the Authority (will vary by world) will depend to some extent on how far ahead in time I run this.
If near-future, TL 11 as 'interstellar.'
Further ahead, probably TL 13. That will mean Marines with battledress, but it won't be all of them. Just the exo-squads.
Other tech that will feature:
Sticky boots/mag boots
Vacc suits at higher TLs come with these as standard items.
Carniculture
Factory farms are an archaic/low TL thing. Most people eat cultured pseudo-meat, but those planets that raise livestock for food may offer real meat for export.
Exowombs
Used widely for emergencies/crisis pregnancies. Not typically used to replace women...
Robots
Lots of them. Mostly not humaniform.
As noted above, one could fully automate a starship, but the Authority does not allow that for legal and insurance related reasons.
Jump message torpedoes
New tech, requires a legal workaround on automation of star-ship restrictions.
This setting does not use the X-Boat design.
Jump cassettes
per 1977 rules
Gravanol
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=827
If near-future, TL 11 as 'interstellar.'
Further ahead, probably TL 13. That will mean Marines with battledress, but it won't be all of them. Just the exo-squads.
Other tech that will feature:
Sticky boots/mag boots
Vacc suits at higher TLs come with these as standard items.
Carniculture
Factory farms are an archaic/low TL thing. Most people eat cultured pseudo-meat, but those planets that raise livestock for food may offer real meat for export.
Exowombs
Used widely for emergencies/crisis pregnancies. Not typically used to replace women...
Robots
Lots of them. Mostly not humaniform.
As noted above, one could fully automate a starship, but the Authority does not allow that for legal and insurance related reasons.
Jump message torpedoes
New tech, requires a legal workaround on automation of star-ship restrictions.
This setting does not use the X-Boat design.
Jump cassettes
per 1977 rules
Gravanol
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=827
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Gravitics
I've knocked back and forth on gravitics, but I'll go ahead and retain hand-wavey gravitics aboard vessels simply because they enable certain in-flight combat scenarios I would like to run.
And I can use existing deckplans. That saves a lot of time.
But I will still include a good number of tail-sitters.
I may buy the plans for the Panga and the Las Vegas class ships if I get a game going.
I've knocked back and forth on gravitics, but I'll go ahead and retain hand-wavey gravitics aboard vessels simply because they enable certain in-flight combat scenarios I would like to run.
And I can use existing deckplans. That saves a lot of time.
But I will still include a good number of tail-sitters.
I may buy the plans for the Panga and the Las Vegas class ships if I get a game going.
