Hello everybody, it always appeared clear to me that battlesuits in a TL12 superscience setting ride down in dropships. I have a draft which should do 10 G in space and 10,000 mph at sea level. The design is still a few tons overweight and I wondered if I had been trying too much.
* How useful is a beam weapon (in this case an x-ray laser)? The beam can't be intercepted by point defense, but should the dropship get into a direct line of sight with a target? * Using a generic hyperdrive as in VE39, what good is a stardrive in a dropship? It helps if the mothership can stay in deep space, and it takes just a few percent of Lwt. * Of course FTL capability implies the ability to operate beyond the direct supervision of the mothership -- sensors, navigation, commo, redundant life support ... * Should artificial gravity go without saying or is it an expensive luxury? Part of it is probably a desire to give the characters in a dropship varied and independent courses of action, a starship in miniature. Is that prudent or silly. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
