Re: Jump Ships

Stuart Ford wrote:
> 
> > As I'm going into more detail about the merchant shiping I have a
> > question:
> > What would a ship be that could dock ships externaly and take
> > them though FTL?
> 
> Yes, build the Jump Ship as a TUG.

	I've been tinkering around with a new type of FTL drive system
for my
personal background that works kind of like a TUG drive.  The drive
belongs to a power that has just more or less figured out jump drive,
but can't build them small enough to fit in their light warships.  Like
a tug, these ships extends their jump fields around smaller ships and
carries them through hyperspace.  However, when the ships emerge, they
are subject to the same "scatter" rules that ships coming into real
space must go through.	This force tends to favor large capital ships in
the first place, believing in "might makes right" rather than fleet
variety.
-- 
Later,
Mark A. Siefert

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