Here is something that I occured to me on this great discussion about trying
to get bast the 6-G barrior. What ever happened to the good old fashoned
ROCKET!!. They aren't bothered by any warping in the time/space/whatever
fields. They just shoot and shoot. I would be intersted to see if someone
can come up with a viable versions. They would obviously be limmeted to
ships about 600t and smaller simply because they would take up so much room.
Admittedly their main disadvantage would be size. But they have two advantages
and that is:a) alows you to use a manuever 6 plus the rockets to get that total
of manuever 12. b) cost. They would still be cheaper per manuever then a
manuever drive. Though another disadvantage is a wpn hitting the O2 tanks.
plus they couldn't be fully refueled at a gass giant. Minor things, but when
you need that extra burst of speed in the middle of combat.
Another minor problem is getting the inerial compensators to work for those high
G's. but then again modern fighter pilots regularly are under sustained 5-6G
manuevers. Then bring in the 6G compensators would bring the 12G acceleration
to a simple 6G felling for the crew and passengers.
Yea I know some of this doesn't make sense, but when you right on the fly, not
everything can work out perfectly.
dave
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