"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."Raising once again the issue of whether the game is simulating future technology or whether it's simulating (now-obsolete) science fiction.
Well, they did mention that the ablative re-entry was faster than a grav re-entry. You could combine them.
Why not both?Raising once again the issue of whether the game is simulating future technology or whether it's simulating (now-obsolete) science fiction.
Sure ... you can do that ...
And if the black globe is just ON (100%) then you can't dump any of the energy intake out of the (jump capacitor) system ... meaning that YOU'RE ON THE CLOCK for how long you can do that kind of thing. Take too long and ... whoops!
That was my suggestion - replace the parachute with a grav belt, and use it for low altitude stealthy flight.
It's fast enough that you'll get somewhat broiled, and it sure as hell won't be stealthy. I'd assume that a drop like that would involve thrusters/gravitics, and would need to be relatively slow. High speed re-entries are for when stealth isn't important, and the ship dropping them can't/won't slow down to give a nero-zero velocity relative to the ground. Well, also for lower TLs where the thrusters and their power supplies aren't as good.
Fair enough - although surely you can set the flicker to a nice low rate to allow objects to exit the forcefield. I assume that is what you do for missiles in High Guard combat.Sure ... you can do that ...
ONCE.
Any vehicles/troops that hit the screen will be ... no longer intact ... and their E=mc2 mass will be transferred to the jump capacitors as energy ... and the screen works both ways so ... a Bad Time™ will be had by All ...
The "unhindered" part is where the assumption breaks down/fails pretty catastrophically.
And if the black globe is just ON (100%) then you can't dump any of the energy intake out of the (jump capacitor) system ... meaning that YOU'RE ON THE CLOCK for how long you can do that kind of thing. Take too long and ... whoops!
Missiles don't have any "important organic bits" that cause catastrophic survival failures if they get ... removed ... unexpectedly ...
The problem of pushing manned craft (jump capsules or grav vehicles or small craft) through a flickering black globe is ...
REMOVE ... let's call them "body parts" ... of any personnel passing through the black globe flickering field.
Yes, I do understand. Maybe flicker was the wrong choice of words. I meant lower the screen long enough for the troops to fly out using their grav belts and then raise the screen full again.Missiles don't have any "important organic bits" that cause catastrophic survival failures if they get ... removed ... unexpectedly ...
LBB5.80, p42:
The problem of pushing manned craft (jump capsules or grav vehicles or small craft) through a flickering black globe is ...
You really don't want that flickering "many times per second" factor to ... unceremoniously and randomly
Sure, you might be able to survive with 10% of your body mass missing ... but would you want to ...?
I mean, you're talking about something on the order of doing this ...
I recommend you rethink the assumptions underlying what you're attempting to do with this idea.
Well, it's a 'globe', so spherical. So you'd want the generator mounted as close to the centre of the ship as possible, and its diameter would be slightly greater than the ship's longest dimension. What that means in terms of power requirements, effective size of the ship for detection purposes, and so on varies by rules set.
Those capsules in MT seem to work with gravitics instead of parachutes and ablative armor.
Yes, although again, I'm envisaging the screen being off for the brief time it takes the troopers to transit beyond its location using their grav belts.