More needle beams stuff on [Stargrunt-Fullthrust] Digest Number 149

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From: Stargrunt-Fullthrust@yahoogroups.com
To: Stargrunt-Fullthrust@yahoogroups.com
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Message: 1
   Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 22:14:52 -0000
   From: triphibious@juno.com
Subject: Needle Beams redux

Okay, other then play balance, which is valid, what logic disallows 
Needle Beams from hitting 'core systems' in ships?  

We are talking targets over 'long' distances and that are points 
essentially.  

For the non-Cartographers here, I think of a point as a location that 
has (literally or essentially) no length, width, or depth.  Unlike 
lines which have measurable lingth and areas which have 2 dimensions 
(at least.)

So a system that targets a point in space over significant distances 
lacks the last bit of 'reach' to penetrate the center of a starship?  
It seems to me that is (again other then the play balance thing) a
big 
PSB...

Gracias,
Glenn/Triphibious

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