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"Mike Petrucelli" <lordinsanity@usa.net> wrote in message news:G50KGn.LIs@lugnet.com... (...) way (...) size (...) Thanks! Hmm...now that I think of it, most fighters are on the large side. I was thinking that it was 'light' because its small (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Well in my Legoverse if fighters get much bigger than you or I built them, they are easy pickings for capital ships. Manuverability is irrelevant past a certain size. (the whole broad side of a barn deal.) On the other hand I consider a System (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.space)
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"Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:G50po7.A47@lugnet.com... (...) but (...) perfect (...) was (...) still (...) As (...) fighter (...) manuverability? (...) More powerful engines, better shielding, thicker armor. -John Van (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.space)
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Tim Courtney wrote in message ... (...) Well, what John says for a start, and also remember that advances in technology can allow bigger, more powerful, better armoured fighters with maneuvrability comparable with (or even superior to) older (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Isn't that basicly irrelivent if the capital ship can use its heavy weapons on such a large target? Of course it could be argued that smaller mass means more efficent engines and faster more manuverable fighters. This of course would be more (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.space)
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Of course, it makes it all pretty easy when you can invent your own technology. Personally, the doohickey coil in my Spiffcraft is proof against any weapon. Mmmmm, leather seat. ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.space)
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"Mike Petrucelli" <lordinsanity@usa.net> wrote in message news:G57K99.B2z@lugnet.com... (...) That really shows nothing about your strategy/theories on fighter characteristics. It just boasts about some silly technology (which I at least don't (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.space)
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(...) So? That's nothing. My civilisation evolved past fighters a long time ago. We fly around in space with jetpacks that contain a Cyttorak crystal, which give our troopers totally inpenetrable defense. If they deem it necessary to take out (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Wow, this thread reminds me of playing cards with a 4 year old that cannot lose at the card game they invented. :-) (...) Only the very best for Muffin Head. :-P Jude (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.space)
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"Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:G50po7.A47@lugnet.com... (...) Hey, great design, Tim. Are you sure it's got a large enough weapons-to-surface-area ratio? :) I wouldn't exactly call that a light fighter - more of a medium (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.space)
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(...) fires (...) I guess I did fail to illistrate my point. Well for starters I should have explained this. I have used this "technology" since I was 8, though I explain it better now. Xlaxer nodes are similiar in function to Star Trek phasers (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Just to argue a technical and semantic point; assuming that the smaller mass also corresponds to smaller engines, they may not be more *efficient*. Turbomachinery tends to increase in efficiency with increasing size ... while manufacturing (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.space)
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