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Sep-04-08, 05:47 PM (EDT) |
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22. "RE: BPGD: CVS-101"
In response to message #18
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>With quite a lot of structural jiggery-pokery, it would be possible to >mount a phase-transit cannon, but experience with Omega-equipped >carriers (such as Concordia) has shown fairly conclusively that >the disruption to flight deck operations involved in maneuvering to >fire such a weapon for effect isn't worth the trouble. It's much >simpler and more tactically flexible to just add a separate >Omega-equipped vessel to the carrier battle group (an >Argo-class heavy cruiser, for instance). Or bring along some >Reflex torpedoes, if you absolutely must haul around the >capacity to destroy a small moon in one go aboard the carrier herself. > >Anyway, hang as many weapons as you want on her superstructure, a >carrier's hardest-hitting, longest-reaching fist is always going to be >her air wing. Those three Judicator squadrons and one Astrofortress >squadron may take slightly longer to destroy an enemy ship than a >blast from a wave motion gun, but it'll be just as dead when they're >through, and they don't leave the ship all but dead in space while >they're gone. >I was thinking more along the lines of an anti-ship weapon in the unlikely occurance of a ship decloaking / emerging from metaspace/hyperspace / defolding while the air wing is deployed. I realize there would at least be a CAP, but in a strike like those that occured (and will likely occur again) in Infamy, there are times when a carrier is stripped to bare bones. Truth be told, I was thinking something more along the lines of a hold-out blaster sort of weapon, only anti-ship grade. Something to make an attacking ship think twice while the air wing is out doing its job. -D- "I don't tell you how to remove bullets. Don't you tell me how to make killing machines back into little girls." Captain Kaff Tagon of Tagon's Toughs, Schlock Mercenary |
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