Re: [FT] Command FireCon

G'day Schoon,

All sounds very reasonable, only one thing. You said (well wrote) that:

 >It started life as a way for smaller ships to "save" a FireCon by
<using CFC>
 >..<snip>...
 >Perhaps I should have added that if the
 >ship mounting the CFC is destroyed, the effect is cancelled.

And in reply to John you indicated that the slaved ship shouldn't be 
allowed to fire at all that turn (sorry if I misunderstood).

So just for clarification to do they lose all fire (losing ability to
use 
ANY of their own FC if the CFC goes down)?
Or do they just ignore the fact they were slaved (i.e. whole slave thing

cancelled)
Or is it only the fire they would've done via the CFC cancelled (while
this 
seems to fit the spirit of what you were trying to do I can see 
unscrupulous joes saying "oh no that gun wasn't slaved only that gun
was" 
which in turn would force the original declarations to get a bit long
winded).

While not exactly the same as what you're doing I have also thought
about 
this kind of thing, but I went the other way. One of my aliens in the 
GZGverse sideshot I'm fiddling with has the following technology. It
hasn't 
been played enough to know for sure the numbers are right, but it hasn't

caused a meltdown as yet.

"Their ships can also display an unusual sensor array that allows them
to 
lend out FC to neighbouring ships (this appears to have been an
incidental 
technology accruing from their need to get around the problems of long 
range communication). The array is 2 mass and costs 5xmass and allows
the 
ship to lend its FC to anyone ship (per functioning array) within 6". 
Obviously the ship itself can not then use those FC to fire its own
weapons."

Its probably not doing exactly what you want though. Just a thought.

Beth

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