Ramblings

Wildstar's number crunching looks interesting, but I haven't had time to go
over his assumptions carefully.  I'm leery of using Trillion Credit Squadron
values without thinking things over a bit.  I'm away from my desk until the
16th, so am accessing with a slow modem...thus, I probably will be quiet for
another week.

I jotted down two and a half pages of hand-written notes today thinking about
how to handle planetary defense and 'viking raid' types of combats, somewhat
influenced by Hard Times.  More on this when I get a chance...however, I looked
up a number as a result.  Did you all know that the current installed
electrical generating capacity in the US is about 720,000MW?  The notorious
Atlantis class battleship has a 7,200,000MW power plant, enough to run the
US ten times over...(I was thinking about how many 250MW beam lasers a planet
might be able to power from the commercial power grid.)

Rob Dean