Re: Ortillery platforms

I can envision tenders moving orbital platforms into geosynchronous
orbits above the battle fields. I would bet the ortillery would be
manned
space stations with no propulsions units.

Bobby

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999 08:25:05 -0800 Sean Bayan Schoonmaker
<schoon@aimnet.com> writes:
> >The problem I came upon was that it occured to me that for ortillery 
> to be
> >effective, a vessel would have to remain pretty much stationary, 
> poised over
> >a specific zone to be able to provide for the troops on the ground 
> or to
> >target specific positions.
> 
> This could lead to a "tender" design where a tugs pulls the 
> batteries into
> position over the planet, and then moves them to the next system 
> when they
> are "finished."
> 
> Schoon
> 
>