<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=285167.msg14070089#msg14070089">Quote from: Voidknight on 14-04-2018, 22:00:05</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">As a question the rulebook lists the investigation skill as covering forensics, which seems a little weird. Or does it mean the safe retrieve and storage of samples?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Another example of Traveller showing its age. In the 1970s, most non-police didn't have any idea that there was any delineation between investigation and forensics. Most only had a very simplified knowledge of the former and none at all of the latter. It wasn't until the mid-eighties that forensic science became its own thing, and not until the last decade or so that the word really entered the household vocabulary due to various TV shows.<br/><br/>As a result, the Investigation skill covers pretty much any sort of detective work, whether it's oldschool observational gumshoeing or highly technical experimentation<em>a la</em>CSI, unless the GM declares otherwise.