What is TNAS?

[curmudgeon]

I see in the T5 book several places that reference TNAS-certified starship construction designs. Can anyone explain this? I was not able to find it defined in the T5 PDF.

 

[aramis]

Educated guess: The Naval Architect Society.

 

[Bloo]

That'd be a weird acronym using "The". TCIA, TDOD, TUN, etc.

 

[Supplement Four]

TNAS...aren't those the guys who manufacture the VACC Suits?

 

[Jazzlvraz]

On p.310:

"...many starports subscribe to the TNAS (Quality Ship Design Scheme)...", so could it be a Vilani acronym?

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

TAS.

As I recall from the Beta, it stands for the TAS Naval Architecture System.

 

[erisred]

I see in the T5 book several places that reference TNAS-certified starship construction designs. Can anyone explain this? I was not able to find it defined in the T5 PDF.

My guess is Traveller Naval Architecture System (or Society).

Geeze, though! What's with all the acronyms? I guess some folks like them, but they just leave me confused.

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

Like 'em?

My guess is Traveller Naval Architecture System (or Society).

Geeze, though! What's with all the acronyms? I guess some folks like them, but they just leave me confused.

I love them, but then I live in the land of the TLA (Three Letter Agencies) and am a bit of Bureaucrat.

 

[Bloo]

Geeze, though! What's with all the acronyms? I guess some folks like them, but they just leave me confused.

Generally, I tend to agree. I don't believe without evidence that something like "NABZ NIL" or "IX EX CX" will ever be spoken by anyone in game conversation. (And, man, "ICE" was right there! "Importance, Culture, Economics").

But I especially agree with new acronyms for things that have had shorter, and more consistent, acronyms for decades: I'm looking at you "NAFAL" ("Not As Fast As Light", instead of "STL" ("Slower Than Light") since T5 uses "FTL" ("Faster Than Light").

 

[Murdoc]

NAFAL bugged me too, but I think the reason behind that one is that they are trying to make a distinction between interplanetary and interstellar STL, with NAFAL being the latter, since maneuver drives can't be used outside 1000 diameters.

 

[Bloo]

That only applies to acceleration, the ship can keep moving. And even then, only to the gravity-based maneuver drive. All the drives listed are STL. What is described as "NAFAL" sounds suspiciously like an Ion drive, even though in T5 they still need some gravity nearby. (And I'm only just now aware of that, since I haven't looked at the ship stuff much,

But the term first appears on p. 15 expressly to contrast with "FTL".