Re: Further thoughts on hitting with lasers
From: Nyrath the nearly wise <nyrath@c...>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 22:22:17 -0500
Subject: Re: Further thoughts on hitting with lasers
Thomas Barclay wrote:
> I would imagine futuristic combat vessels would require either
> 1. outrageous ECM suites to fool the enemy targetting
> 2. high maneouvre caps (crew inside liquid or foam suspension
> capsules to cushion against G shock or some such. I saw one book
> where they suggested replacing blood with a synthetic that took G
> compression better and modifying space crew bone structure etc). I
> would think this would be on the order of 5-10 Gs if not more.
In SPI's RPG "Universe", a choice item of personal equipment
was an "internal gravity web". Intended to render the user
resistant to high acceleration, it was a series of plastic
webs surgically implanted to support various internal organs.