Vector Rules are Backround Dependent

Status: RO

As another not so subtle flame war gently erupts...

IMHO it all depends on your background. If you're doing
Star Trek then rapidly spinning about for a huge ship 
makes sense and its even happened on screen when the big
E met the Q in Encounter At Far Point

If you're trying to simulate battle in 21st Century then
you probably want to take mass/inertia into account and
then a lot of the points about physics are true.

B5 is probably the closest to reality there is in 
SF TV/films, even though in some of the episodes the ships 
seem to be pulling very high G turns for example 
"sk** d**cing".

Honor H has inertial damping for acceleration but
they turn like wet navy ships.

Thus take the *current* generic Real Thrust rules and add 
modifications for your background where they make sense. 

Do we gain anything from a discussion on the validity of
generic rules for each genre? Probably not a lot.

sincerely
tim jones
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The stars are matter, We're matter, But it doesn't matter.