Re: [FT universe] was [URL] ...

Oerjan spake thusly upon matters weighty: 

> It is. Unfortunately, unless your FTL equipments are *very* accurate
> (which the GZG ones aren't) or your "hidden" cache has a powerful
> omnidirectional beacon to allow your own ships to locate it (in which
> case it won't stay hidden and secret for more than at most half a year
-
> better use it up fast), it'll be bloody difficult for your own ships
to
> find it as well. Star systems are harder to miss, like.

Counterpoint: Put an 'interrogation-response' beacon on it. Then you 
have to track its coords, get nearby, drop an odd-freq pulse out 
(short, with a small code) and wait for the response pulse. If you 
aren't close, you don't even see the pulses. (Enemy odds of being 
close really low). Enemy sensors will not pick up beacon because it 
is not active until queried by current code (a la good IFF).  
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