Re: FT-Airless bodies

>----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -----
> I was watching the luna eclipse, and it raised some points in my > 
mind-
> 
> Would beam weapons have any range modifiers firing from a airless 
> body?, as opposed to firing through a atmosphere with it`s attendent 
> difusion effects?

See Nyrath's answer about beam range modifiers in general. However, I 
think he missed the point that you wanted know what the _difference_ 
would be between a beam shot through an athmosphere and one shot from an

airless body. To answer that: beams shot from a moon can be treated as 
beams shot from a spaceship. If you have a free line-of-sight to the
target, 
the only difference would be the effect of gravity and that is 
negligible. (unless you are shooting from a Neutron star or Black Hole
;-)

> How much of a modifier would have to be used on SML`s/missiles to 
> represent the power used to climb out of a gravity well, which would 
> be smaller on a airless body as opposed to out of a larger gravity 
> well for a atmosphere planet, and how much would have to be used to 
> overcome the atmosphere it`self (or would the atmophere be a > 
neglible compair to the gravity well?).
> 
> What would be the requirements for fighters climbing out of a small > 
gravity well, on a airless body?
> 

These would depend critically on the size of the planet and the density 
of the athmosphere, and, frankly, I don't know the formulas for dealing 
with athmospheric resistance.

If you want to keep it simple in game terms, you could argue that 
missilles and fighters taking off from a planet or moon are equipped
with 
extra boosters or drop tanks that provide enough energy to reach free 
space. Thus, they could be treated exactly like any other missiles or 
fighters.

Greetings