Re: Communication and Travel

At 10:55 11/06/98 -0500, you wrote:
>You wrote: 
>
SNIP
>>The skeleton campaing rules in FT (pg34) give speed of 6 LY per week 
>>for standard military vessels.
>
>Still pretty slow in terms of interstellar distances.
>
>John

A general slowness in interstellar travel might also justify the use by
larger powers of mobile "amphibious" forces, perhaps with most of the
marines in cold sleep, with secret peacetime movement schedules so that
outlying worlds would be more reinforceable.  Such forces might include
heavy stuff, with crews in the fridge, to be landed if a beachhead was
available, and dropable raiding forces (normally accommodated) in case
the
opposition was already down.  The squadron would include a number of
substantial military transports, some sort of CVE, plus escorts.  A fast
ortillery sloop might be a useful element in support of such forces.

This could give rise to assorted FT scenarios such as recce to find a
lurking phibron, recce in support of the phibron, skirmishes to stop
couriers or drop raids etc.

Rob

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