Re: FTL Jumps and making it tricky...

On 26-Aug-99 at 17:49, Imre A. Szabo (ias@sprintmail.com) wrote:

> > There you go, should be what, about 5 per large planet, which could
go
> > away as other planets were too close.  It would be next to
impossible
> > to put orbital forts at all of these, however, you could patrol
them.
> >
> > Roger
> 
> There are at least five Lagrange for each planet in the solar system. 
That
> means you are going to have to cover at least 45 locations...  As for
the
> Interdicter cruiser, it will have to have an incredibly huge area of
> effect. Remeber, space is three dimensional.	Why do you have to jump
> through the orbital tracks of the planets?  (most of the time it would
not
> be a problem) Why can't you jump in over them or under them?

PSB?  Need to keep the number down?  45 locations is better than a
sphere
5 light minutes across?  Remember, I did say the Lagrange points for
a large planet and its associated star.  Should reduce it to 8 or nine
usable.  Too many to cover with orbital forts, but not too many to
watch.

Roger