Re: Launching fighter drones from savasku PODs

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	  NGarbett@STSSystems.com wrote:

> Now before i start i may have the values wrong. But as the POD
launcher
> is the same mass as the Womb why not have a pod type of say  fighter
POD
> which can be launched as per the earlier posts, takes 1 whole turn to
create
> costs 7 bio mass, 6 for fighters and 1 for POD casing and costs 12
points 
> of power, 6 for the fighters and 6 the next turn to launch the pod of
> fighters 
> 24 mu which then sheds its fighters for normal movement.
> 
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Well, I'd though of something similar (is your concept based on a
certain B5 episode perhaps? mine was) But looking at the FB2 pod
descriptions I note that all pods were 1 biomass, so IMHO the standard
pod launcher can only fire 1 biomass pods.

I did consider, however, a super-pod-launcher concept that could fire
the 7 biomass fighter pods you described, as well as other extra-large
pods - didn't develope it further, but it could be the sa'vasku
equivalent of 'super weapons' like the Nova cannon and Wave gun.

Charles

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