Re: More Fleet Book questions

At 06:40 PM 02-06-98 -0500, you wrote:
>At 18:51 6/1/98, Samuel Penn wrote:
>>Are there any plans to tidy this up? I've always felt that there
>>should be a 'launch bay' type system, which allows the launch/recovery
>>of one fighter group per turn. Currently (especially now since mass
>>limits have been removed), a mass 200 carrier with 8 fighter groups
>>can only launch as quickly as a mass 50 carrier with 2 fighter groups.
>
>Except that a launch bay (to my mind) limits the carrier to genres that
>have 'traditional' internal bays: Star Wars, B5, Battlestar Galactica.
What
>about a design that has fighters mounted to the exterior of the ship?
Or
>with each fighter in an individual pod (LOGH)? Dedicating mass to an
>additional 'bay' doesn't seem to make sense in those cases.
>
>>Stops all the questions about what a carrier is as well.
>
>IMO, the mass and space costs associated with fighters as is is enough.
The
>'FlightCon' system should be enough to distinguish carriers as a class.
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>be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a
joke. "
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The problem with fighter on the outside is that it is incredably awkward
to
do anything with them. Imagine a surprise attack, you would have to get
suited up and then `run` through an airlock. What about getting a
wounded
pilot out an into a sickbay, what if he needed first aid right there?
Doing
routine repair work would be slowed if you had to use a vacsuit. I think
the cost of a fighter bay is justified.