Re: Out-of-date designs

Donald Hosford wrote:
> 
> Sounds like a simple way to do it.
> 
> Question...because the old ship has the same "mass" as the modern
vessel (ie:
> oldship=80mass, newship=100mass) would the old ship have just as many
hull
> hits as the modern one?

Because of improvements over time in materials technology - eg use of
nanonmeter layers of neutronium instead of thick diamond foam lattice,
an "obsolescent" ship of mass 100 would only have the same number of
hull boxes as a "modern" ship of 80. 

> BTW, I like the "Mk XVIIa Mod 7 Heterodyned Phased-Array Lasers"
entry...

Ta. Guess I've been hanging around military hardware too much... 
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