If you were going after asteroids containing ferrous metals, you wouldn't need tractors, magnetic grapples would do.
Jim
--- On Tue, 3/23/10, Roger Malmstein <> wrote:
From: Roger Malmstein <>
Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Mining Vessels
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Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 9:02 AM
In FF&S the tractors starts at TL 12. A change I actually support as repulsors are too damned close to a gravitic drive and magical thrusters.
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Roger Malmstein
www.travellerfreeport.com
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Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Mining Vessels
On 23 Mar 2010 at 12:09, Michael Jenkins wrote:
Tractor beams are something like TL16. So they aren't going to be
used.