Editing Fire, Fusion, & Steel

{{InfoboxBook2
|name      = Fire, Fusion, & Steel
|alsosee   = 
|author    = Frank Chadwick, Dave Nilsen
|available = http://www.rpgnow.com/product/129/TNE0304-Fire-Fusion--Steel-v2?affiliate_id=875229
|canon     = Yes
|caption   = The Traveller Technical Architecture. 
|contents  = Introduction:4, Major system:9, Subsystems:36, Weaponry:90, Appendix:153, Bibliography:160
|edition   = 1st
|footnote  = ISBN 1-55878-157-9    Product No. 0304
|format    = Book (Softback)
|image     = TNE Fire Fusion & Steel.jpg
|language  = English
|pages     = 160
|publisher = Game Designers Workshop
|version   = Traveller The New Era
|year      = 1994
}}
[[Fire, Fusion, & Steel]] is a [[Game Designers Workshop]] product.
* It is a technical source book written for [[Traveller The New Era]].
* Please also see: [[Fire, Fusion & Steel]] (1997) for the [[T4]] [[Marc Miller's Traveller]] version.
 
== Description ([[Specifications]]) ==
Science fiction is about diversity, the unusual, and pressing the cutting edge of science. It's not suited to simple lists of equipment that limit play. Each different [[world]]'s [[environment]] calls for slightly different approaches to transportation, communication, and even [[weapon]]ry. You need rules to design whatever equipment you need, and as many different variation of it as your players find uses for. More than than, you don't need jargon and double-talk; you need to understand enough of the science behind the equipment that you can see how it works, understand its limitations, and make the game come alive. 

''Fire, Fusion, & Steel'' has all of that and more. [[Starship]]s, [[aircraft]], and [[vehicle]]s, in almost infinite variation, are at your command, from fusion-powered [[grav tank]]s to advanced technology [[Airship|lighter-than-air ship]]s, from gigantic armored star cruisers to delicate [[ornithopter]]s. pick your [[power plant]]s from a selection that ranges from primitive [[steam engine]]s to [[matter-antimatter annihilation]], with side excursions to [[solar power]], [[batteries]], [[explosive power generation]], or even [[cold fusion]].

Tired of just playing with [[jump drive]]s? Tailor your campaign around a wide selection of [[FTL]] options, from natural [[wormhole]]s to [[stargate]]s, [[stutter warp]], or [[hyperspace drive]]s. Or if FTL is too advanced for you, conquer space the hard way, with [[Bussard hydrogen ram jet]]s or [[Daedalus thermonuclear pulse drive]]s.

The [[cybernetics]] chapter alone has dozens of entries and provides a rich basis for adding cybernetic enhancement to any science fiction game.

Weaponry isn't slighted either. Rules and supporting data enable you to design [[small arm]]s, conventional cannons, [[gauss weapon]]s, [[Plasma Gun|plasma]] and [[fusion weapon]]s, [[laser]]s, [[particle accelerator]]s, [[meson gun]]s, [[missile]]s and more. Or counter them with [[reactive armor]], [[electrostatic armor]], [[meson screen]]s, or [[nuclear damper]]s.

''Fire, Fusion, & Steel'' gives you unprecedented control over your campaign environment by not only providing a variety of design rules (and explaining the physics behind them in layman's terms), but also by covering a wide variety of technologies not part of the core ''Traveller'' game universe. It is a sourcebook on universe building for any science fiction referee, and an indispensable reference work on future technology.

=== Table of Contents ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!colspan="2"| TNE Fire, Fusion, & Steel <br>(1st Edition)
|-
! Section / Article
! Page/s
|-
| Introduction 
| 4
|-
| Book I: Major Systems 
| 9
|-
| Book II: Subsystems 
| 36
|-
| Book III: [[Weapon]]ry 
| 90
|-
| Appendices 
| 153
|-
| Bibliography 
| 160
|}

=== [[Library Data|Library Data Entries]] (Public) ===
# [[Airship]]
# [[Antimatter Plant]]
# [[Battery]]
# [[Bussard Ramjet]]
# [[Cyberware|Cybernetics]]
# [[Daedalus Drive]]
# [[Electromagnetic Masking]]
# [[Electrostatic Armor]]
# [[Explosive Power Plant]]
# [[Fusion Weapon]]
# [[Gauss Weapon]]
# [[Hyperspace Drive]]
# [[Laser]]
# [[Meson Accelerator]]
# [[Meson Screen]]
# [[Missile]]
# [[Nuclear Damper]]
# [[Particle Accelerator]]
# [[Plasma Gun]]
# [[Reactive Armor]]
# [[Small Arm]]
# [[Solar Power Plant]]
# [[Stargate]]
# [[Steam Engine]]
# [[Stutter Warp Drive]]
# [[Wormhole]]

=== [[Library Data|Library Data Entries]] (Automated) ===
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== Meta-history & Background ([[Dossier]]) ==
[[Fire, Fusion, & Steel]]: The Traveller technical architecture puts you in control of your science fiction game in ways that no other product ever has. 
* Other people give you catalogues of future equipment. We've given you the factory.
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Included with ''Fire, Fusion, & Steel'' was a small format 16-page booklet called, ''Traveller: The New Era Upgrade Booklet''. This contained updates to the original [[Traveller: The New Era (book)|Traveller: The New Era rulebook]] and errata for ''Fire, Fusion & Steel'' itself. The rational behind the booklet was described as follows.
* "For the publication of FF&S, we have created design sequences which are much more comprehensive than those we used when designing equipment for the TNE rulebook. Much of the TNE equipment has therefore been redesigned according to the FF&S sequences, and is included in this upgrade booklet. In addition, several rules additions and errata are included as well.
* "There are limitations to what can be included in a book of this size. All information on starship upgrades is already available in [[Brilliant Lances]].
* "All of this material will be incorporated into the TNE second printing, which can be recognised by the phrase, 'Mk I Mod 1 (December 1993)' on its title page."

=== Credits (Primary Sources) ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" 
!colspan="2"| Credits (Primary Sources)
|-
! Credit
! [[Author]]s & Contributors
|-
| Design
| [[Frank Chadwick]] & [[Dave Nilsen]]
|-
| Design and Development Assistance
| [[Loren Wiseman]]
|-
| Previous Design Work
| [[Lester Smith]], [[Ted Kocot]], [[Terrance McInnes|Terry McInnes]], [[Charles E. Gannon|Charles Gannon]]
|-
| Oversight
| [[Dave Nilsen]]
|-
| Cover Painting
| [[Doug Chaffee]]
|-
|Interior Illustrations
| [[Bradley K. McDevitt]], [[Kirk Wescom]]
|-
|}

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