If the rules allowed "Jump 4 for 2 parsecs means it's done in 168 *
(2/4) hours" then it'd be worth it....

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Ian Whitchurch
<xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> Y'know, a jump 4 ship with jump 2 of fuel dont work too well.
>
> Its times like these I hate HGS :)
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Ian Whitchurch <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> A proposed jump-4 replacement Scout/Courier, built at TL15.
>>
>> Featuring solid armor, three staterooms and 5 dtons of cargo space, the
>> Sylea class will be a worthy replacement to the type S.
>>
>> At a build cost of MCr123 each in quantity, the Sylea class will serve the
>> empire as long as the venerable type S.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz
>> <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Ian Whitchurch <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > A basic tech-12  jump-3 Scout/Courier - and its not easy to build
>>> > better
>>> > than jump-3 ships that go in the line of battle in Trav - costs about
>>> > the
>>> > same 1 MCr per dton every other military ship roughly costs, coming in
>>> > at a
>>> > base MCr96 for 100 dtons.
>>> >
>>> > A squadron of these can travel with the battlewagon, meaning it doesnt
>>> > need
>>> > to piss several percent of it's total volume up against a wall in
>>> > carrying
>>> > fighters that are equally unimportant in battle and cannot run messages
>>> > back
>>> > and forth to the fleet's other detatchments.
>>> >
>>>
>>> I've often wondered why it seemed the IN got ship upgrades every
>>> decade or three, but the IISS was using basically the same ship for
>>> the last thousand years.
>>>
>>> I've had this mental image now and then of a poker game amoung the
>>> 3I's Joint Chiefs, where the Admiral complains about having to detach
>>> escorts to carry mail at Jump-4 so they have any chance of catching up
>>> with the fleet, since the Type-S's are only Jump-2.
>>>
>>> The IISS Administrator replies,"Well , if the Navy didn't suck up all
>>> the credits, maybe we'd get an upgraded design..."
>>>
>>> The Admiral responds,"I know the commanders on scene hate losing the
>>> firepower of the escort in an anti-missile role, and it'd almost be
>>> worth it for the IN to fund a new 100 ton design..."
>>>
>>> The Marine General adds,"If it had some way to deploy commando troops,
>>> for behind the lines raids, we'd kick in on the funding"
>>>
>>> The Army General nods, "And the ability to carry the mail quicker for
>>> us would be a good thing..."
>>>
>>> The IISS Admin ponders it, and then says,"The sensible thing would be
>>> to accept that it's going to be _another_ thousand years before I hear
>>> something like this, and design something really cutting edge under
>>> the idea that in 250-500 years it'll be the common place technology. I
>>> mean, Jump-2 was cutting edge when the Type-S first was thought up."
>>>
>>> The others agree,and the research project begins...
>>>
>>> .... So, if you were doing a ground-up redesign, what would you do ?
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