FFS designs
Blinding capitol ships
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 16:24:24 +0100 (BST) From: Jennie Kermode <916265ke@udcf.gla.ac.uk> Subject: Blinding capitol ships Starship blinding lasers. Here are 3 TL15 uncrewed, trainable lasers all with a damage value of 1 out to 80 hexes. The first of these is included as it was the design the other 2 were based on. Thee second is as overpowered as FF&S explicitly allows and in the third the overpowering is extrapolated from FF&S (rate of fire and focal array volume multiplied by 2 for each additional negative difficulty level) I set the thirds overpowering to -15 diff because it can then hit, with a TL 15 MFD, a gigantic ship at 80 hexes and a small ship at 64, which is the greatest distance still classed as long range for a 16 hex AEMS. Overpowering to more than -15 diff produces lasers which require stupidly big power plants compared to there increased performance. I invisualise these lasers being used in large batteries of 20 to 200 lasers, controlled by one MFD, too blinded starships. Personally I think a blinded starship without functioning communicators could not jump, fire, evade or land. X-ray laser (no overpowering) Discharge Energy 0.041616 Mj Focal array diameter 0.258 m Hull surface area 0.052m^2 Focal array volume 0.000002179 m^3 Focal array length 0.000041616 m Focal array mass 0.000002179 Mg Focal array cost 0.000004358 MCr Power used 0.001156 MW HPG volume 0.0073 m^3 HPG mass 0.0146 Mg HPG cost 0.000073 MCr Beam pointer volume 3 m^3 Beam pointer mass 3 Mg Beam Pointer cost 0.3 MCr Damage value 1 Penetration nil effective range 2,400,000 km 80 hexes TOTALS Volume 3.0073 Mass 3.0146 Cost 0.3001 Power 0.0012 X-ray laser ( overpowering to -5diff ) Discharge Energy 0.041616 Mj Focal array diameter 0.258 m Hull surface area 0.052m^2 Focal array volume 0.000017432 m^3 Focal array mass 0.000017432 Mg Focal array length 0.000332928 m Focal array cost 0.000034862 MCr Power used 0.09248 MW HPG volume 0.0073 m^3 HPG mass 0.0146 Mg HPG cost 0.000073 MCr Beam pointer volume 3 m^3 Beam pointer mass 3 Mg Beam Pointer cost 0.3 MCr Damage value 1 Penetration nil effective range 2,400,000 km 80 hexes TOTALS Volume 3.0073 Mass 3.0146 Cost 0.3001 Power 0.0925 X-ray laser ( overpowering to -15 diff ) Discharge Energy 0.041616 Mj Focal array diameter 0.258 m Hull surface area 0.052m^2 Focal array volume 0.0179 m^3 Focal array length 0.34 m Focal array mass 0.0179 Mg Focal array cost 0.0358 MCr Power used 94.6995 MW HPG volume 0.0073 m^3 HPG mass 0.0146 Mg HPG cost 0.000073 MCr Beam pointer volume 3 m^3 Beam pointer mass 3 Mg Beam Pointer cost 0.3 MCr Damage value 1 Penetration nil effective range 2,400,000 km 80 hexes TOTALS Volume 3.0252 Mass 3.0325 Cost 0.3358 Power 94.6995 All 3 lasers have the following stats Range 10 20 40 80 Damage value 1 1 1 1 Donald Munro