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Topic ID: 150
Message ID: 14
#14, RE: Two Questions.
Posted by Gryphon on Oct-14-01 at 04:32 AM
In response to message #11
>I expect that If/when Gryph thinks about this one, he'll point out
>that the only navies who MIGHT build this sort of thing are the
>eqivalent of 3rd world worlds, who don't really have the umph to
>project power, just defend their own space... and or havent developed
>hyperdrive yet.

I suppose it would be possible for there to be a society that isn't interested in projecting power, and only wants to defend their own space. In such a case they wouldn't bother putting FTL drives on military vessels, because their military doctrines don't include scenarios in which they'd want to send their armed forces out of the system.

For the most part, though, owing to the cheapness and relatively low maintenance costs of hyperdrive, the only armed spacecraft without some form of FTL tend to lack sublight drives as well - they're stations, not ships.

--G.
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