Ship size vs. weapons

[BKrani]

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Originally posted by Aub:
Information cannot travel faster than light -- or it can cause all kinds of temporal paradoxes.

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But don't forget that this is just a game... Repeat after me - 'Just a Game'!. Seriously (or at least, a little more seriously), in this simulation, we've got vessels traveling most of the way across a system in less than 0.1 of a year. Not to mention, traveling the vast distances between systems in a fraction of that time so there's probably some f.t.l. travel.

That said, I realised that what I said earlier was a little problematic. I mean, being able to tell that a beam weapon is incomming stretches the boundaries of belief a little.

Beam weapons (visible spectrum lasers that is) are relatively easy to defend against though. You just need a mirror finish. Proton and neutron beams are really particle weapons and probably move at a much slower speed (relatively). I acknowledge though that I'm not an expert, or even well read on the subject of these types of systems.

Cheers.