Re: Fw: Weapons for Newtonian based FTIII

On Mon, 5 May 1997 12:52:25 +0300 (EET DST), you wrote:

>Not so. LRDS(tm) is useless against mobile targets, such as enemy
ships.
>The problem is solely with immobile targets.
>The obvious answer is not to have immobile targets, but that removes
the 
>fun of stations.

Agreed. Satellites can manoeuvre in orbit. Certainly military ones. I
do not see why a station would be unable to shuffle around in orbit.

The other alternative is to put some kind of defense on a space
station. Perhaps the station is equipped with a "positional
stabiliser" that locks it in place and prevents it from moving. This
works using "some sort of FTL field" locking the station to a
particular "warpspace eddy" or somesuch. This stabiliser keeps your SS
in place and prevents the bad guy from towing it away. It also keeps
out all projectiles above a certain speed, allowing ships to dock but
preventing the LRDS from zapping it.

Sandy Goh (sandy@artica.demon.co.uk)