Re: Detection

Roger Books wrote:

>  I want tension as ships close.  I want a period of "Is that a
> dreadnought or a heavy cruiser pretending to be a dreadnought".
> I want my opponent to possibly wonder, is everything on the
> board is is something sitting, weapons and systems down, waiting
> for me to blunder into it much as Weber does in his books.
> 
> Sure, a ship lights off its drive and we get clues.  If we know
> our opponent and we see contact BR549 accelerating at thrust 2
> we can make a fair guess there is a capital ship in the group.

That's fine.  Tension is good.	But total surprise should be only
possible if someone is totally asleep at the wheel.

John