Re: Jump Ships

DracSpy wrote:

[First part of Mark's description snipped; he then continued:]

>> 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. >>

> I think that is simular to the J engines in Star Fire, it could work.

Not really - the J drive is completely incapable of making warp
transits,
and the Jc drive requires that the carried ships are physically tied to
the carrier, so there's no independent scattering (the carriers do
scatter, of course).

There are no rules for just how to resolve "tugged" jumps in FT, so the
version Mark describes may well be the correct one here :-)

Later,

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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