[TML] Space Traffic Control (was Re: War rules)

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 6/3/08 2:48 AM, "Knapp" <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

> At first, I was going to say you are totally right and it is an oversight on
> my part. I was still thinking that you could have a small jump message pod,
> but that is NOT cannon at all.
> 
> My next question would be, how hard is it for an Xboat to push a huge battle
> wagon. I am not saying, is it strong enough but more where do you push on
> it. How do you steer it. I am sure if you knew the mass distribution of the
> ship you could find the right point but I can see it being  a bit hard to
> avoid just spinning it and knowing the mass distrobution of the ship might
> be hard if it were totally dead.

Well, unless battle damage has *really* mangled it, dead center of the back
end would be a good place to start.  If that seems to be making some spin,
shift a little and try again.  Remember, we started this exercise with 3
weeks to sort it out.  :)  A little experimenting will quickly *find* the
center of mass.