[TML] Molding Ships

[Charles Prevatte]

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> Charles Prevatte wrote:
> >
> >
> > Again the sats.  I do not see them as posible with 1920-1945
> tech.  No solar
> > cells, batery life would be short, and the electronic would be
> very power
> > hungery.
>
> It depends how much you scavenge from the space ship. Handcomp, comm
> unit, plus a few spare battery cells, or an RTG (which are pretty damn
> simple to make, the problem is the fissionable's) and a jury
> rigged **maneuver unit, would make a pretty decent jury rigged sat. The
> main issue would be the imaging package, but most ships should have
> something that would suffice (astrographic system, digital camera
> married to a local telescope, radar surveyor). Just one satellite over
> Europe would make a massive difference (like noticing those Panzer
> divisions in Holland).
>

You woiuld have to bring THOSE up.  (Grin)  Yes, if you could get resolution
enough to see vehicles them you have a massive advantage and one that would
be very cheap to maintain, if the sat is self susstaining to start with.  It
would also be tough to bring that sat down, unless the enemy also has some
"space men".

Charles L.


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