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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 150
Message ID: 15
#15, RE: Two Questions.
Posted by Polychrome on Oct-14-01 at 06:12 AM
In response to message #13
>>I wonder if any military force in UF uses Battletech jumpschips.
>
>Kearney-Fuchida drive? Why bother? It combines all the disadvantages
>of fold drive with all the disadvantages of hyperdrive plus
>requiring careful calculations of your jumping-off point. No
>percentage in it.

30 light-years instantaneously is nothing to sneeze at, given fold tech is not widely available.
If you can make them reasonably cheap they would work for hauling on established trade routes, especially ones with time critical cargo. It becomes evenbetter if you can get around the power generation bottleneck.
Of course, if it costs as much as a fold drive then you're wasting your time.

Polychrome