RE: Transhuman Thrust

Well, ship weapons systems are mainly made up of the following:

	Light and Heavy Lasers.
	Coilguns that can launch kinetic kill or bomb-pumped x-ray laser
(aka
Teller mines) projectiles.
	Spinal Mounted Particle Accelerators.
	Autonomous Kill Vehicles (AKVs) play the role of fighters and,
if
desperate, cruise missiles.

Since THS is a "hard" sci-fi setting, ships can use anything from solar
sails, to mass drivers, to fusion and even early anti-matter drives. So
vector movement would be in order.  Acceleration for military ships
tends to
fall with .1 to .3 G.

Later,
Mark A. Siefert

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
[mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of Jon Davis
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 5:13 PM

I've got the first book in the series, but I haven't studied
the ship combat system or weapon types very closely.  Can you
provide a brief description of the types of weapons and
manuvering in the TransHuman universe?

Jon