Re: FT Taskforce and Fleet Actions

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Ryan Gill wrote:

> At 6:44 PM -0400 8/6/01, Laserlight wrote:

> > > Any asteroid belts will have a maximum safe speed for transition
> >
> >Well, as long as you don't outrun your radar, you should be safe.  I
> >wouldn't bother with this.
> 
> Some of the idea is to keep units from ignoring it entirely. Its not 
> insubstantial and is actually quite a significant size considering. 
> It also makes for more possibilities of that belt being some sort of 
> barrier in a way.

The asteroid field in our solar system can be represented by....let's
see, take a large room (something on the order of 15'x15' or so) and
toss in a few marbles. This would represent a more or less crowded
area of our asteroid belt (where 'belt' is a misnomer, really). Some
years ago I wrote up a study on asteroid fields for  gaming purposes.
The summary was: take a small rock, toss it on the table, and voila`.
You're in the asteroid field. I can repost this if there is interest,
or send it to you off-list. It could even be buried somewhere deep in
the FT archives (not sure if Jerry's archives go back that far or not).