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Re: (1902) Minimum Starship Armor

By William Dow Rieder ·

TML message #1924From bundle 156Read the whole thread (2 messages)All messages with this subject

In reply to #1902 Minimum Starship Armor by Orcinus orca Cites: #1902 
Here are some serious reasons for starships to have armor 40:
1)  The ship has to be able to cruise through the Van Allen belts of gas
giants without endangering the crew in order to use wilderness refueling.
2)  In-system speeds (at least using the MT manuver drives) can easily
get up to thousands of km/sec, making micrometeorites and other junk
four orders of magnitude more dangerous than when the ship is just
sitting in orbit (KE = 1/2 mv^2).

					W. Dow Rieder

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