Re: [FT] Sensor range question

Laserlight wrote:
> >Of course, it also depends upon how bright your engines are too...
> 
> I make the assumption that everyone is stealthed to a greater or
lesser
> degree.

Yeah, but, depending on how the engines 'work', it's a lot harder
to hide a huge engine heat bloom versus the relative 'coldness' of
space.	(Depending on how close you are to the sun and a host of 
other factors.)

Sensor range may not be as short as it sounds, if we think that the
MT sensors are meant to generate solutions good enough to shoot 
something.  It's (usually) much easier to build a sensor that can 
detect something to within several thousand km, then within one.  

Of course, this all gets caught up in FT physics; what makes the
ships move, what are they using to sense things with, etc. etc. etc.,
and I don't want to start THAT discussion again.  (8-)

J.

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