"Void 1.1 question about Xasers" Topic

Does anyone know which book I might find the most information at Xasers in? I remember that its a 4-barreled device, but I am curious as to any references as to size.

Ref: Xasers are the devices that allow ships to grav shunt to other star systems.

There are very few books for VOID 1.1 period, so should not be hard.

There is the old blue-bordered rulebook.
The purple-bordered rulebook.
All five of the faction books (VASA, Junker, Viridian, Syntha, Koralon.)
and the VOID 1.1 Rulebook "Evolution or Extinction" that came with the boxed set (which is the longest, morst recent at 2003 and the last book since they moved over to Urban War as an alterative game system.)

So if you have all those books – you have everything.

Because grav-well shunting was a fluff thing not germane to the player-v-player action on the board, I do recall the generalities, but not any details.

I'd have to dig into all my books to answer concretely.

There may be more details in any of the Urban War offerings, I do not know, the game is designed by the same folks and is the same basic universe.

Thanks Mardaddy. I am slowly thumbing through the fluff. I am working on conversions from the Knight Hawks (KH) game to add a basic space campaign add-on for Void to fit the Void background. I have a basic Knight Hawks costing structure that I think is compatible with Void. I am trying to find a size adjective for the Xasers for comparison, like smaller, larger, huge etc. I just want to abide by the Void fluff as much as possible. KH has a small and a large laser, and just trying to determine if I should put the Xazers in between the two laser sizes or bigger. It's not a deal breaker either way but I was curious if the books might help me.

Technically the VOID fluff allowed for shunting between grav wells, these grav wells 90% of the time or more we're not even part of a viable system. Dead stars, dead planets. Colonizers had to use regular drive systems to reach where they would go after shunting.

It's like the grav wells were teleporting you to outside of town (or the middle of nowhere – you do not really know for sure till you get there if you are the first ones), but you still have to drive to get to find a system or something to colonize/explore.

VOID's stipulation that you can't just shunt through any grav well deep enough because of the electromagnetic interference from stars and the like prevents it is somewhat exotic and at a glance problematic for a more-than-one-star-system setup. Of course it isn't happening in our universe (or at least in our galaxy) and it looks like suitable anomalies are more common there than in our neighborhood (where there is so far none).