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RE: One question that's plagued me about Full Thrust

From: "Haun, Gilles, SSG" <haung@E...>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 11:18:19 -0400
Subject: RE: One question that's plagued me about Full Thrust

Stuart

When you consider the velocity of the railgun and the size of the round,
it would be too difficult to effectively target on it (considering a
railgun armed ship is firing a round smaller than a fighter).  It seemed
to me a logical conclusion to arm a ship with railguns.

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>From:	Stuart Murray[SMTP:smurray@aecom.yu.edu]
>Sent:	Friday, September 26, 1997 5:07 PM
>To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
>Subject:	Re: One question that's plagued me about Full Thrust
>
>>Tim,
>>
>>Hope you don't mind the barrage of mail but I have a question that's
>>bothered me ever since I first picked up FT and later after picking up
>>MT:
>>
>>If we have the tech to put rail guns on aerospace and ground vehicles,
>>why are the Kra'vak the only ones to use them on starships.  It would
>>seem a natural evolution as would the armoring of a ship.  I've never
>>gotten an answer to his from Geo-hex here in the States when I asked.
>>Care to shed a little light on it?
>>
>I thought that railguns were slower then particle beams, soooo.. in
theory
>the particle beam armed ship should be able to shoot down the railgun
armed
>ship, plus intercept the incomming railgun rounds before the rail gun
armed
>ship has a good chance to retaliate.  However, in FT this is no  so.
>
>Stuart.
>
>
>Stuart Murray
>
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