Re: FTL Jumps and making it tricky...

>This leads to a few questions. Do all battle occur at some point just
off
>a star system or are there battle that occur further out in the
>interstellar deep reaches?

I'd say No and Yes respectively.

>How do you protect a system? Can you have some sort of early warning
>system that will tell you someone is in FTL travel X hours away?

I'm partial to detection only in normal space, but I also think that the
transition out of jump makes an awfully big signiature.

>If not, what about placing interdictor ships like used in StarWars that
>will generate a Gravity well to drag a ship suddenly out of FTL on
likely
>avenues of approach to a system and warn you of their impending
approach.

Nah, I don't like it.

Schoon