From: 'Old Man Tom'
To: soc.military.starfighters
RE: Glass Cannons
I see what you mean, but from my own experience with OGJ and -at the risk of sounding like a braggart- no less than three wars back on Earth, I reckon there is a happy medium between agility and durability. I flatter myself that my esteemed colleagues at John Henry Station Industries have found it.
Also...
> So, the more complexity we add on top of things, the harder it will be for ordinary people to buy them and maintain them properly, the less of them we'll have to spread around.
Is this really an issue with a dedicated combat spacecraft, even in Fenspace? I can see some private security companies wanting to buy a handful of them and you might get a very rare individual order from an asteroid racing team, but they're not going to be something you can mass-produce for retail sales like the Bolithio or those I-Pod things the Soviets came up with a while back. (Or at least I should bloody well hope not!)
To: soc.military.starfighters
RE: Glass Cannons
I see what you mean, but from my own experience with OGJ and -at the risk of sounding like a braggart- no less than three wars back on Earth, I reckon there is a happy medium between agility and durability. I flatter myself that my esteemed colleagues at John Henry Station Industries have found it.
Also...
> So, the more complexity we add on top of things, the harder it will be for ordinary people to buy them and maintain them properly, the less of them we'll have to spread around.
Is this really an issue with a dedicated combat spacecraft, even in Fenspace? I can see some private security companies wanting to buy a handful of them and you might get a very rare individual order from an asteroid racing team, but they're not going to be something you can mass-produce for retail sales like the Bolithio or those I-Pod things the Soviets came up with a while back. (Or at least I should bloody well hope not!)