On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Travis Watkins <[email protected]> wrote: > By my understanding a Patrol boat is a long endurance craft that is > used for watching the border and will probably need to deal with > people who would rather not be noticed(smugglers, pirates, etc),
What sort of volume does your border enclose? If it's, say, ten million miles radius, a big emplaced radar and interceptors seem like a better bet than a lot of patrol boats with shorter-ranged sensors. If it's the size of a solar system, the job becomes very difficult: there's loads of stuff to hide behind, and the number of patrol boats you need becomes enormous. Loads of unmanned satellites with active radars are a better bet, if they can be afforded. The third dimension in space and the absence of a planet's curve to create a sensor horizon make this very different from borders on a planet. John _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
