Re: Updated Electronic Warfare Rules

Phillip Pournelle wrote:
>	    >>Detection range for passive systems is too
>	    short.  It is entirely possible for an unstealthed
>	    Mass 100 ship (with no thrust, or thrust 2 if it's
>	    coming at you) to get within 6" of a passive
>	    civilian ship--or an asteroid of the same size
>	    could do the same--without being detected at all.
>	   
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     It is wildly unlikely that a real civilian ship will have
passive sensors.  As far as a military ship sneaking up on 
the civilian, thats why they have the billion dollar sensor/
ECM systems.   JTL
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...Snip...more snippage, with most of the content, I agree.

Bye for now,
John L.