Re: A bad place for a laser hit!

><<much ugly math snipped regarding calculating star distances>>
>
>Anyone who can come up with a neat util to go along with any ST rules I
>will reward hansomely -- haven't seen math like that since Math 12 -
which
>I dropped...I'm all for automation of that part of the strategic game,
and
>I imagine I'm not alone...

Ugly?? Ugly??? That was *simple*!!

You want ugly? Introduce proper motion, fit an orbit relative to
the rest of the galaxy, in addition to a ton of other bits and
pieces. Enter differential calculus, relatavistic equations,
quantum stuff. Fine-tune things to include individual members of
star clusters, too. Oh, and points of a nebula ('member, nebulae
that you can see with your nekkid eye are *lightyears* across)

And he calls the earlier stuff 'ugly'...

;-)

Mk
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