i think, going off the top of my head here again. The the speed limit on gauss / mass drivers wasn't a tech limitation but rather a real world issue with the rounds burning up in the atmo. Again thats just off the top of my noggin.
Derek Stanley
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On 2012-06-26, at 10:13, "Antony Farrell" <> wrote:
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> Looking in FF&S Mass Drivers can have a velocity of 3000ms-1 at TL8 or 3km per seconds, double that at the peak of TL11. So in 3 minutes a TL8 mass driver projectile (neglecting any vector imparted from the launcher) can cover 540 km in 3 minutes the TL11 one 1080km. In 30 minutes if you stayed with standard combat rounds it would cover 5400km at TL8 or 10800 for a TL11 one. So you could not really use these at standard combat scales. But with a 3 minute scale and smaller range hexes they might work.
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> What size hex would you need for a 1 hex change for a 1G ship over a 3 minute round?
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