Re: FT Taskforce and Fleet Actions

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Ryan Gill wrote:

> At 11:43 PM -0400 8/6/01, Mark 'Indy' Kochte wrote:
> >
[asteroid navigation stuff]
> 
> Going through really dam fast (6 hexes per turn) would put you 
> through the belt fairly fast and make it really hard to avoid a rock 
> that you didn't track. If you are going through with passive sensors 
> only, how are you going to see that rock before it smacks your 
> Flagship in the bridge? Especially if its also mined unexpectedly...

You won't. And it's very likely that space craft, travelling at *any*
decent velocity, are going to have some kind of active sensors up in
order to avoid terrain in space, even if the active sensors are at
low-level (there'll come a point where any emmissions will be
indetectable
from background energies). Thus Laserlight's comment about not flying
faster than your radar.  ;-)

Mk