Re: [FT,DSII] From MT Re: Ortillery

Charles Taylor wrote:

>One idea I've considered, allow a number of choices for orbit, as
>follows:
>
>Extremely Low: skimming the upper atmosphere, may be close enough to
>provide precision ground support?
>At this level, the ship may not orbit at all, but could 'hover' using
>main drive to counter the planets gravity.
>Attacks are as for Low orbit, but no deviation is rolled.

As the ship skips off the atmosphere, won't the friction create enough 
interference to deteriorate the accuracy of it's FireCon?  Just a
thought - 
in the end it's PSB to preclude FT ships from becoming too powerful in
DS2 
(Which may be more realistic, but a lot less fun for Gropos).

Brian B2

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