Re:The Physics of Space War: How Orbital Dynamics Constrain ...
by wespiser_2018 on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:20PM
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What kills about shows like Battlestar Gallactica is that they have no sense of how tactics would evolve in new environment, and instead transpose modern era fighter and air craft carrier tactics in a total new environment. For instance, If you have an FTL, and know a targets location, why wouldn't you jump, shoot everything you have, then jump away? The entire game changes with FTL, and it would be really cool to see that explored in Hard-sci.
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Re:The Physics of Space War: How Orbital Dynamics Constrain ...
by kybernetikos on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:26AM
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If you have FTL ships, why don't you have FTL weapons, which would be entirely undetectable before they hit (except by FTL observation?).