Re: Sensors and jammers

Scott writes:
>       I've heard folks say that superdense hulls produce a neutrino
> shadow.  I say this is garbage.  A neutrino can pass through the entire
> mass of the earth without any trouble.  If superdense was THAT tough,
> then you can forget it ever getting scratched by something as puny as a
> 250Mw laser.

But by the same token it seems to me that you'd have a hard
time getting a directional fix on a neutrino source. Or perhaps
not, I'm not very well versed in sensors. But I know that I
heartily dislike the ability to pinpoint any starship in a star
system from a game balance pov, so that's my story, and I'm
sticking to it. I impose a DM of -1 to neutrino pinpoints for
every neutrino source within range.


Steve Higginbotham writes:
> You don't fool PEMS by jamming it, you spoof it.  Use your AEMS to emit
> just exactly the kind of signature that, when added to your natural
> signature, looks JUST LIKE SOMETHING ELSE.  That's why destroyers have
> that widget to make aircraft-carrier noise today.  It helps protect the
> carrier, though it is kind of hard on the destroyers.
> Incidently, has anyone noticed the active noise-suppression devices
> being developed?  The ones that generate an out-of-phase signal to
> cancel the noise?  You could do that with EMS too.  Analyse your ships
> signature, generate an out-of-phase copy, and project that out your
> AEMS, which should make you just about invisible to PEMS.  And if you
> were sharp, you could do it to the return signal from the other guy's
> AEMS and kill it too.

Steve, are you talking about _cloaking devices_ here!? (Good
for you if you are. Efficient cloaking devices is what our
pirates need to survive ;-).

      Hans Rancke
University of Copenhagen
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