[GZG] Re: NSL Ships - Names & SDN

Sorry, I was just thinking that the NSL ships tended
to be quite slow so naming them for runners seemed
inappropriate because of this lack of speed and dong
so ironically would be more of a British (NAC) thing –
so you might have an NAC oilier [1] named for
Sebastian Coe, something slow and ungainly as opposed
to something fast and nippy.

The notes for the new NSL SDN look rather jolly so
far. What I find particularly interesting is the idea
of the Kra’Vak war influencing human ship designs, not
incorporating new technology (a few new tech toys
excepted but no alien tech) but evolving to meet a
very different threat – well maybe not so different
for the NSL, it is faster than you and is throwing a
lot of kinetic energy your way albeit from a mass
driver rather than as a missile [2].

Michael

Notes
1. A big tanker would be slow but a replenishment ship
would have to be able to keep up with the ships she
served – one for a CruRon might be quite fast. It all
depends on it’s roll and on doctrine.

2. The missiles in FT. Is there any official call on
what the warheads are? I had always casually and
thoughtlessly assumed nukes, possibly with lasing rods
to allow them to produce gamma ray lasers but I
suppose they could use KE penetrators (steerable
submunitions?) – maybe even like old style BB shells
that have to penetrated then explode. I am assuming
that anything but a contact detonation with chemical
explosives would be pretty useless in space as there
is no air to carry a shock wave.

It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer of this
has done what he has done.
  - Richelieu

	
	
		
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