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Published: 2011-05-01 20:44:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 1082; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 95
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I wanted to convey a recently touched upon topic. Most starship combat would take place at distances that your target/attacker would not even be visible.Thanx for looking.
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COOL! Yeah, the distance thing is one of my pet peeves. While Wrath of Khan was great popcorn fare, it did cement a bad precedent for Trek's ship to ship combat. You've done an excellent job here - on many levels!
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Very cool scene, well done.
Not seeing your enemy is the tip of the iceberg there. If light energy weapons are involved, strikes would be near instantaneous. A warship design might be better as a sphere with projectile launchers and light energy weapons bristling on it like a sea urchin. No need to bank, or dive. No atmosphere.
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Well in the Star Trek universe the torpedoes are ftl. The are basically a warp drive unit tipped with an antimatter warhead. Which is why at the beginning of TNG phasers were never used at warp. Not very effective and possibly fatal if you are flying faster than the weapon you are lobbing out the ship!
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You know, that's one thing I
've always wondered about. Would a phaser beam or disruptor blast be as powerful at 1000 meters as it would be at 10? Maybe after you go so far, they're so weak, they can't do enough damage? Not like today's cruise missles.
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That's the advantage of having played the S T combat games like I did. We used a chart to calculate the amount of damage a particular type of weapon would do at different ranges. The further out the less damage. And far enough out a flashlight would be just as effective.
That's why torpedoes are useful. They have the whallop; but shorter ranges. Use phasers to get through the shields and before they recharge slam through to the unprotected hull with torpedos. Ahhh the good old days.
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Hmm, I always wonder about that myself.
Because you have to wonder just how far the weapons would be able to reach in addition to the fact that 'visible' in space is highly relative and very dependent on what kind of sensors you're dealing with.
For example, in Star Trek's various iterations, they're often able to pick up exact particles upon a planet's surface. So arguably they'd be able to detect a ship in the midst of space wouldn't they?
Now granted, it would most certainly be beyond visual range of the human eye, but 'visual' range for the ship's sensors? I must wonder...and lets me honest, we all love a good old fashioned 'broadside to broadside' scenario when it comes to space ships don't we?
Nice piece, thanks for making me talk overmuch, hope it wasn't overly annoying.
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Agree or disagree, it's always good to hear differing opinions.
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Indeed it is, tis the stuff we all thrive on even if we don't like to admit being wrong from time to time!
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