Re: Ship weapons
CSUE@delphi.com
Fri, 17 Jan 1997 08:53:59 -0500 (EST)
James -
The main reason a FIRING ship will often get destroyed along with the
FIRED-UPON ship, is because the first one hits the second one's nuclear fusion
furnace (ie, engine), causing a huge fireball. I've seen this mentioned
many times.
Also, althoug h the ships are supposed to be equipped with collision
avoidance mechanisms, they sometimes go a little haywire (when surrounded,
for example), and teh crews turn them off; this can result in instant
collisions, or in flying into somebody else's wreckage/fiereball.
Each ship is supposed to be surrounded by en energy neautralization
field (ie, shield), and these things fail every once in a while in the books.
When you see bems aams trying to hit a ship from the froinnt and bouncing off,
they're bouncing off this field (which is described in the literature
as "rainbow-colored", although they make them white in the anime to
save paint :). However, I don't think they're strong enough to prevent
collisions, just energy beams.
- Sue
LoGH ML Archive: Re: Ship weapons
Re: Ship weapons
CSUE@delphi.com
Fri, 17 Jan 1997 08:53:59 -0500 (EST)
James -
The main reason a FIRING ship will often get destroyed along with the
FIRED-UPON ship, is because the first one hits the second one's nuclear fusion
furnace (ie, engine), causing a huge fireball. I've seen this mentioned
many times.
Also, althoug h the ships are supposed to be equipped with collision
avoidance mechanisms, they sometimes go a little haywire (when surrounded,
for example), and teh crews turn them off; this can result in instant
collisions, or in flying into somebody else's wreckage/fiereball.
Each ship is supposed to be surrounded by en energy neautralization
field (ie, shield), and these things fail every once in a while in the books.
When you see bems aams trying to hit a ship from the froinnt and bouncing off,
they're bouncing off this field (which is described in the literature
as "rainbow-colored", although they make them white in the anime to
save paint :). However, I don't think they're strong enough to prevent
collisions, just energy beams.
- Sue
LoGH ML Archive: Re: Ship weapons
Re: Ship weapons
CSUE@delphi.com
Fri, 17 Jan 1997 08:53:59 -0500 (EST)
James -
The main reason a FIRING ship will often get destroyed along with the
FIRED-UPON ship, is because the first one hits the second one's nuclear fusion
furnace (ie, engine), causing a huge fireball. I've seen this mentioned
many times.
Also, althoug h the ships are supposed to be equipped with collision
avoidance mechanisms, they sometimes go a little haywire (when surrounded,
for example), and teh crews turn them off; this can result in instant
collisions, or in flying into somebody else's wreckage/fiereball.
Each ship is supposed to be surrounded by en energy neautralization
field (ie, shield), and these things fail every once in a while in the books.
When you see bems aams trying to hit a ship from the froinnt and bouncing off,
they're bouncing off this field (which is described in the literature
as "rainbow-colored", although they make them white in the anime to
save paint :). However, I don't think they're strong enough to prevent
collisions, just energy beams.
- Sue