Re: Space Lanes? (was Re: [OT] Sea Lanes was: Liberals )

At 2:58 PM +0100 9/16/02, Roger Burton West wrote:
>Given the chains of jumps used for long distances, I think the only way
>to make piracy practical would be to know where the target is going to
>jump to, and wait there. It seems likely that civilian lines would have
>standard rendezvous points (both to simplify navigation and to make it
>easier to search for a ship that's missed arrival).

Piracy will be more practical out around smaller worlds (Moons) 
belonging to third rate powers. They'll have less to defend with and 
be more likely to turn a blind eye to piracy when it's not their 
ships being affected.

>Then it's a race between the civilian crew coming out of jump-shock and
>the pirates fixing their position and attacking.

I think the pirates would have to be right on top of the ship in 
order take advantage of the 30minutes to an hours time a civilian 
crew would have.

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