Communication/Size limits on a Polity

[Amber Chancer]

effectively impossible just means extremely difficult.
the flash on screen method is a guide to approximate location.
rooting out the site, which, by definition is very likely somewhere near where the flash-triangulation indicates means, in game terms you have an adventure seed.
you have a key point of defense, an isolated, underground fortified site crewed by your enemies elite fanatics and specialists. defended as a last stand live-or-die as a culture.
{you may even choose to have the players be the crew of the meson site}
this sure sounds like an old school RPG scenario to me.
it's practically a high tech dungeon crawl.

I sure like your way of thinking

 

[Piper]

Considering there's a 10kg, about 15L system that can backtrace small arms fire already...

Something a tad smaller: http://bbn.com/products_and_services/boomerang/boomerang_warrior_x

 

[rancke]

Considering there's a 10kg, about 15L system that can backtrace small arms fire already... it's not in use because of costs, not because of lack of capability.

So evidently future meson gun technology includes the ability to spoof detection, perhaps by generating scores of false hits.


Hans

 

[aramis]

So evidently future meson gun technology includes the ability to spoof detection, perhaps by generating scores of false hits.


Hans

Or, striker's entry is deprecated by the later definitions of how it works. Not that Striker mentions meson screens in the context. Without a meson screen, the meson gun is almost unable to be located, and meson screens are not battlefield installations.

 

[rancke]

Or, striker's entry is deprecated by the later definitions of how it works. Not that Striker mentions meson screens in the context. Without a meson screen, the meson gun is almost unable to be located, and meson screens are not battlefield installations.

That would seem to work too.


Hans