RE: Fleet Replenishment tender

I would also like to think that Human space going navies would all agree
that their biggest enemy is space iteself, as ocean going saliors feel
about
the sea. A guy in a lifepod is no threat to a destroyer so you may as
well
pick the poor sod up (then through him into cold sleep so as not to
waste to
much resources on transporting him).

Regards,

Matt Tope

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damosan@comcast.net
Sent: 21 November 2003 16:34
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: Fleet Replenishment tender

> Definitely worth having. It's quite common for a ship to be
"destroyed"
> by only a point or two - OK, power's gone, but that doesn't mean the
> thing has exploded. There'll be a lot of people in suits, lifeboats,
> etc., awaiting pickup - so there's definitely call for SAR, and with
the
> likely distance to a friendly base it makes sense to combine this with
> hospital treatment.

Are we assuming mid-combat pickups here or would the victor do the
pickups?
Hospital ships are a good thing in that, if you "win", you get to pickup
surviving crewmembers.	What about the opposing forces?  I would think
convention would be to pick them up as well (if time/space permit)
because
these crewmen would be valuable property to own when it came time for
exchanges and such.

I'd also think that hospital ships would have a large group of Marines
onboard to help keep the natives calm.

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Damo