>I try not to get too hung up on the numbers in UF. It's not
>meant to be anything like hard SF, after all. No big deal, I did read the thread on Starfuries and I generally assume that things can do whatever is dramatically appropriate - I just figured that the relative ranges on the sources were differnet enough from what was said that it needed debunking.
Let's face it, in ST the weapons have way too much range for ships to need to get in visual range (like in Shiva Option by Steve White & David Weber where you get a good line on the theme of 'What do you mean ninety KILOMETERS!?'. But that just doesn't look cool.
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So I simply said one of the great trite truths: "There is generally more than one side to a story." - Corwin, Roger Zelazny's 'Courts of Chaos'