Re: EFSB Vector Movement vs. FB Vector Movement

Samuel Penn wrote:

> > I don't know how long one turn of EFSB combat is (it's probably
> > somewhere, but Jon has adopted the "1 turn ~15 minutes" timescale
for
FT
> > and doesn't believe that it'd take even a lumbering battleship more
than
> > that to turn around completely :-)
> 
> Going by the TV series, turns in EFSB should be quite short, maybe
> a minute or so. 

Not to mention that the length scale to go with the 15 min. turns is
roughly 1 MU ~1000 km, and the battle scenes from the show look far more
cramped than that. (IIRC, but I have no idea where I've picked this up,
the B5 jump point is located some 700 km from the station - and there's
been quite a lot of action in that space :-/ )

So yes, 1-minute EFSB turns seem very likely. ...Jon, did you have any
conscious thoughts on this? :-)

>You could always argue that it's dramatic necessity
> compressing time of course, and keep the longer turns.

Well... since JMS has commented on some occasions where ships *did*
maneuver too fast (eg, the Omegas that were scared off from B5 by
Delenn's fleet - "be somewhere else", and all that - turned much faster
than they should have, but the episode was almost too long as it
was...),
I'm not sure the battles are that much compressed.

Later,

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@nacka.mail.telia.com

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