Re: Romulan - Imperial scenarios -- Star Trek vs Star Wars

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Subject: Re: Romulan - Imperial scenarios

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Warspite

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Date Posted: 17:45:01 11/08/02 Fri
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In reply to: His Divine Shadow 's message, "Re: Romulan - Imperial scenarios" on 16:54:05 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.
>

I don't have a problem with range increasing, I said as much. I do find an increase from 'less than visual range' (i.e < 10km) to 900,000km in 30 years.....questionable. However, if it happened, it happened.

>>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 �

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Subject	Author	Date
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