Fire, Fusion, & Steel (1993)

Fire, Fusion, & Steel, Technical Architecture, is a supplement for Traveller: The New Era. This 160 page sourcebook is the technical architecture manual for designing major items of equipment. The first part presents rules for designing major systems such as spacecraft, ground vehicles, lift vehicles, and aircraft. The second part presents rules for designing subsystems such as personal armor, drives, controls, electronics, defensive systems, power production, lifters, life support, cybernetics, teleportation, and fire control. The third part presents rules for designing weaponry. An appendix provides design examples.

Errata for the First Printing can be found in Traveller: The New Era Upgrade Booklet and in an article in Challenge (Issue 75).

Expanded by:

• Reformation Coalition Manual 3: Reformation Coalition Equipment Guide includes tons of equipment designed with these rules, and includes new and modified rules.
• World Tamer's Handbook includes new design sequences for archaic black powder weapons, bows, and wagons.
• Vampire Fleets includes a new design sequence for robots, with or without Virus intelligence.