Little background again
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She didn’t take the opto-digital correctors into account then.
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Opto-digital correctors are one of the greatest discoveries in interplanetary shuttle travel (or so the inventors say), it incorporates an advanced optical (the "opto-" part) detection grid on the cockpit window. The data thus collected is sent to an optical digital computer (the "digital" part) which corrects for any distortions in the image, then sends the corrected data back to the optical grid, which displays them onto the interior of the cockpit. This is handy as it avoids the outside images being distorted by the curved window (think along the lines of the
Enterprise shuttlepods).
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“Can you get me an ID on her torpedo stock?”
“Already done, ma’am. Four launchers, two tubes per launcher, one magazine per tube. Fifty-torp capacity per mag.”
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This is an obscenely large number of launchers for a ship.
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“Twenty standard high-explosives, twenty long-rangers, ten heavy-duty capship killers per mag.”
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The "standard high explosives" are standard-issue missiles with a medium to large warhead. The "long-rangers" are missiles with the same size, but a smaller warhead. It has an overpowered engine and increased fuel (i.e. drive plasma) supply, giving it a very long range (one hundred fifty first-grade clicks). The "heavy-duty capship killers" are, as the name implies, absurdly large warheads mounted on a short-ranged low-speed engine.
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Tamarillho remembered to grab a nearby bracer beam just in time.
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"Bracer beams" are non-structural support beams placed almost everywhere on starships where there existed the chance of people falling over and not being able to grab a wall support in time if the ship made a sudden unexpected movement. Think along the lines of the
Voyager's bridge, where there are unusual bars behind Janeway's and Chakotay's chairs. Sorry Phil
Hunter Assault Craft are the fastest, nastiest little ships in Capship. They can mount 15(!) engines at 1 required for movement. They are 500kT, which makes them too small to be a true singular threat to larger capital warships, but they are very effective scouts and harassment ships. Also, when you can swarm a large capital warship with a rather large group of them, it'll be like a cloud of enraged hornets attacking a man with a stack of fly-swatters. Yes I took that from
Schlock Mercenary
Next info block is gonna contain some background on Tamarillho.