#84, RE: No Harrington-novel Tech. Deal.
Posted by Astynax on Oct-18-01 at 11:27 PM
In response to message #82
> I have the sneaking hunch Gryphon is right in both counts on >this...going by the Robotech and Macross RPG books (which, admittedly, >are based on Macek and therefore arbitrary, but the numbers make >-sense- and are the most detailed writeup on these ships I've seen), >the Reflex Cannon beam of the SDF-1 and 3 is 1 mile high, 2 miles >wide, and 60,000 miles long. Them's some ridiculous numbers, sure, but >even if they're totally wrong, the -scale- would still make >sense...Well, I recall from a Robotech novelization I read once upon a time warp that the 'main gun' <what they refered to the reflex cannon as> activated and fired on the Zentraedi<sp?> fleet as soon as said fleet folded into the Sol system <someplace out by Neptune or Pluto> and destroyed 2 of the Zentraedi ships. That would give an SDF-1 reflex bolt an effective range spanning at least half a system. -={(Astynax)}=- "Darkness beyond Twilight"
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