Re: [FT] New weapon system..sort of?

At 2:34 PM +0000 1/30/02, Jeremey Claridge wrote:
>Hello
>
>I've been toying around with a bizarre idea
>for FT.
>This may well have been done before (I haven't looked through the
>archive).
>Ok here goes. A launcher system that fires out vacuum suited troopers
>who have jet packs to propel themselves short distances to enemy
>ships. Once attached to the out side of the ship they can act in
>a similar way to needle beams.

So marines are so plentiful in your navy that they are willing to be 
shot out of tubes like missiles. How many will get to a target? How 
many will miss and go floating off like Major Tom?

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