RE: FT Taskforce and Fleet Actions

At 7:53 AM -0400 8/13/01, Bell, Brian K (Contractor) wrote:
>To add some additional tactics to it...
>
>You could postulate that the MD rating of the engine also translates to
the
>FTL rating of the ship (larger engine produces greater power to shunt
into
>jumpspace and larger objects need greater energy to jump).
>
>If you factor in the PSB on p. 44 of FB1, you could set a ship's
maximum
>_safe_ jump rate is equal to MD-1 in light years. This, of course, gets
>proportionally smaller as you enter the gravity well of a system (agian
PSB
>from p. 44-45).

This really really hamstrings the NSL strategically. Tactical 
movement seems disconnected (engine wise) from strategic movement.

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