Travis replied to Johannes: > I was under the impression that the ablative layers of the Starship > Troopers drop pod had extra mass and shaping so that after they blew > off, they looked very similar to the piece that actually had the > trooper in it.
Yes. The capsule becomes chaff and flares as it burns up. > Have this combined with several ablative layers and a substantial > number of pods being launched in rapid succession, and it should not > be hard to fool most sensors of a similar or lower TL. According to the rules in 3E, chaff helps against active radar and ladar, but flares only decoy simple missile seekers, not advanced sensors. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
