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

[Knapp]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Leon Wu <Leon.Wu at newswire.ca> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tml-bounces at travellercentral.com on behalf of Jerry W Barrington
> > Sent: Tue 03/06/2008 8:01 PM
> > To: TML
> > Subject: Re: [TML] Space Traffic Control (was Re: War rules)
> >
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> How would an xboat push anything? Last time I checked they don't have a
> maneuver drive...


Dang, you are right, thus there is a way for a message to leave a system and
get help without that system having a way to save the ship in trouble.
DEK



-- 
Douglas E Knapp

1. Sun Tzu said: Raising a host of a hundred thousand
men and marching them great distances entails heavy loss
on the people and a drain on the resources of the State.
The daily expenditure will amount to a thousand ounces
of silver. There will be commotion at home and abroad,
and men will drop down exhausted on the highways.
As many as seven hundred thousand families will be impeded
in their labor.

2. Hostile armies may face each other for years,
striving for the victory which is decided in a single day.
This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's
condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred
ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height
of inhumanity.