My thinking was that those flight control computers were doing a lot of
work on the grav tanks, compensating for movements in CG as the turret
swivelled, asymmetrical drag, and of course gun-recoil especially when
fired off-centerline.
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:03:45 -0400, Jeff Dougherty
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> Brings to mind a story (set in Mass Effect, but that's neither here nor
> there) where the thrusters go out on a grav tank while it's a couple
> hundred meters up. The crew solves the problem by swiveling the turret
> and firing the fusion gun, using the recoil as a braking thruster. Just
> in case you were wondering what those really, really high-level skill
> checks were for...
>
> -JTD
>
> "If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane."
>
> -Jimmy Buffet
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