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Nova Floresca
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May-21-14, 09:29 PM (EDT) |
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8. "RE: BPGD: K'tayyl class"
In response to message #5
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>>... what does "DPF" mean? DPS I would have parsed as Degrees Per >>Second, which would make sense as a maneuver rating. But I don't >>think it's a typo because it appears that same way in other docs >>you've posted. > >No idea. It's what the maneuverability rating is in in the old >LucasArts TIE Fighter game manual, which was the resource for >many of the stats in the ancient WDF tech readout, and (like MGLT, >SBD, and RU, which have similar origins) has just stuck. I still >wouldn't know that MGLT stands for "megalights" (whateverthehell THAT >is supposed to mean) if it hadn't been expanded somewhere else much >later. Time to validate my sig yet again, but . . . aren't the shield and hull values a bit small for a destroyer? I can't readily find any of the old TIE Fighter values, but I thought an X-Wing for example was somewhere between 50 and 100 for shields and hull both, and I would have thought a capital ship could take more than 3/6 X-Wings' worth of beating? "This is probably a stupid question, but . . ." |
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