Re: [FT] back to fighters

At 05:37  16/05/02 -0700, John wrote:

>--- Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com> wrote:
> >
> > >7.5 minute turn (1/2 length of DSII turn)
> > >1000km
> > >1 acceleration is (approx, due to granularity) 1G.
> > >
> > >It's too neat not to use.
> >
> > <chuckle> Well, except of course for the *other*
> > neat scale available:
> >
> > 2.5 minute turn (1/2 of SGII turn)
> > 1 mu = 100 km
> > 1 thrust point = 1G (approx)
>
>Yuck!	100km, ugh.
>
>Too small.

I don't know, consider the Phalons and their PBL with the 1000km scale
it 
envelopes small planets (and we were worried about the Kravak) :)

But playing at the 100km scale could make it very interesting fighting
in a 
planet's gravity well.

Cheers

Derek

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