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RulesTalk: Probes
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lugnet.gaming.starship
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Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:39:08 GMT
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Here's an interesting question...
A player has emailed the GM requesting that his home sector send out a number of
"Long Range Deep Space Probes." (The player is also an SM.) He has provided
stats including high sensors and zero weapons. And these probes have no crew.
They don't have any crew-like robots either, just some communications drones to
relay data back to their home. But these probes are capable of (and intending)
inter-sector travel. Are these or are these not "Ships" by terms of Starship
rules?
Previously, any discussion of the rules dictated that anything that travels
between sectors must be a registered Ship (for game mechanics). Even a starbase
being towed or tractor-beamed to another sector would be a Ship and take up
slots against the players allotment. NPC Ships that remain only in their SM's
sectors do not need to register or count against totals. Craft, smaller vessels
incapable of inter-sector travel on their own, can be registered for reference
but do not count against totals. But this probe idea is new, and without crew
or artificial intelligence, are they really Ships according to Starship?
I personally like the probe idea. And my initial reaction is to let it slide
without registration. However, perhaps we can enforce that an image of a brick
model be available for each probe style?
What does everyone think?
-GM Hendo
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | RE: RulesTalk: Probes
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| I think that this is a good idea...I would like to see some limitations or restrictions on what they might be able to see or even a "system failure" possibility. As we all know, several SM's have a mystery in their sector, Sending in a probe could (...) (20 years ago, 31-Mar-04, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
| | | Re: RulesTalk: Probes
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| (...) My two cents (quickly--we've had a bit of craziness here so I'm late on SM emails, my work, and EVERYTHING) are that probes should be fine, if they are registered as ships--with brick models, images, the works. And it must be up to the SMs (...) (20 years ago, 31-Mar-04, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
| | | Re: RulesTalk: Probes
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| (...) -snip some- (...) Well, I think the following: Probes should only be allowed to send data, not interact with things. For instance, if it sees a valuable artifact or something, it must send the data back. It cannot go ahead and try to take the (...) (20 years ago, 1-Apr-04, to lugnet.gaming.starship, FTX)
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