RE: Star System Attack

If you read the background sections of FT & MT, it does explain the FTL
sequence.  Effectively, the further you jump, the more inaccurate the
landing.  Who wants to jump 5 light years only to find the entire fleet
re-emerges in the same spot.  BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!

(w) Brendan.Robertson @ employment.gov.au
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>-----Original Message-----
>From:	John D. Hamill [SMTP:finnmaccool@earthlink.net]
>Subject:	Re: Star System Attack
>I had always thought that it works a little like B5 H-space, in that if
>you open a hole into H-space, any ships with you can enter also. If it
>isn't like that, but more like Traveller's system, where every ship
>jumps into H-space by itself, and has a +or- 10% time and distance to
>where and when it breaksout, so attacking fleets come in spread out
over
>a lot of space. This has significant effects on the strategy of system
>invasions. It makes things like Battle Riders and Carriers MUCH more
>important, because they are a large force transitting into a system
>simultaneously, in one spot. If on the other hand, the ships FTL drive
>can be slaved to each other, this is a tremondous advantage to the
>attacker, who can jump into the system at any point, while the defender
>must garrison all the important points of the system.