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Subject: Re: Romulan - Imperial scenarios

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His Divine Shadow

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Date Posted: 16:54:05 11/08/02 Fri
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In reply to: Warspite 's message, "Re: Romulan - Imperial scenarios" on 12:09:43 11/08/02 Fri

>>In Destiny's Way the Millenium Falcon fired at
>>Coralskippers from atleast 2-3 lightseconds away and
>>concussion missiles at an even greater range.
>
>That would seem to conflict with the ranges shown in
>ANH, why the TIE was in visual range, but still out of
>weapon range. Of course, these books are set nearly 30
>years after ANH, so there could have been a range
>increase. However, that would have to be a serious
>range increase.

In war the weapons advance the most, it should not be difficult to beileve that lasers and turbolasers and especially missiles and torpedoes could advance in range so greatly. Kuat Drive Yards and Gollan Defense Industries aswell as other weapons manufacturors seem to increase the range and rate of fire for weapons every four years or so. There we have research and delevopment in action.

>Even if we accept it, that would only give us a range
>of 600,000-900,000km. Star Trek ships are normally
>shown as having torpedo ranges up in the millions of
>kilometers range.

64 megatons, WOW! that's like shooting a colt 45 at a tank, it doesn't do a whole lot to slow it down.

>>And in any case the ST ships don't have anywhere near
>>the firepower required to hurt even one of the ships.
>
>I assume you are refering to the 200GT turbolasers? If
>so, can you show me a single instance of an explosion
>of that magnitude occuring from a single turbolaser
>bolt in either the films or books?

He could be referring to the 200 megaton range of medium turbolasers firing in full salvos (so that all guns are firing) we have a single burts of 12 gigatons [200 mt x 60 guns= 12,000 megatons or 12 gigatons]

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Romulan - Imperial scenarios	Warspite	17:45:01 11/08/02 Fri
Re: Romulan - Imperial scenarios -- His Divine Shadow, 23:43:15 11/08/02 Fri Re: Romulan - Imperial scenarios -- Warspite, 09:15:44 11/09/02 Sat