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Re: [FT] Fighters - some thoughts

From: Richard and Emily Bell <rlbell@s...>
Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 21:40:37 -0400
Subject: Re: [FT] Fighters - some thoughts



Charles Taylor wrote:

> Remote Piloted fighters (which brings us back to the Andromeda thread
> :-) may make morale checks or not as desired (the pilots, 'back home'
on
> the mothership decide which is more important, conserving fighters, or
> attacking). If they chose not to check morale, they will suffer double
> casualties.

The viability of remotely piloted fighters is strongly dependent on the
psb
of the measurement unit.  If one mu is only a few dozen kilometers, than
you
are fine.  If one mu is one thousand kilometers, the double delay of
pilot
seeing what is happening and the vehicle responding to his commands
makes it
impossible to more than screen the ship that the pilot is on.  Without
FTL
communications, remotely piloting  something that has to strike a
dodging
target, or jink away from incoming fire is impossible, and if your
onboard


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