Re: How long can your fleet endure?

Actually, as some of us pointed out during the discussion of "odball" objects
(black holes, brown dwarfs, etc) there may be a lot of stuff out in those
"empty" hexes. If a survey team can locate a comet-like object, that will
refuel a *lot* of ships. Figure the tonnage of a ball of ice (water, methane,
and ammonia) a few klicks across.

The location of such covert refueling stations would be closely guarded as
while there are a lot of such iceballs out there, they are *not* easy to
find. But what is it worth to you to have a refueling depot in interstellar
space? Better yet, what if it's a few light hours outside an enemy system?

In peacetime only covert operations would use these resources. In wartime
a skipper might open his sealed orders to find that he is to jump to some
location in empty space. After arriving, he'd be met by a pilot who'd take
the ship in. (If the crew is kept away from the nav readouts, only the pilot
knows how they got from the jump point to the fuel depot... paranoia pays!)


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