HRogge Wrote:--Ace Dreamer Wrote:I'm pretty sure either the grumblings that lead to the Boskone War, or the war itself, persuaded Brains that it was actually worth the trouble of building the Mauler that he'd designed. This is a normally invisible space craft which is shaped like a cone on a sphere, where the height of the cone is the diameter of the sphere - 150m diameter, 300m long ('teardrop'?). He calls it the "Turtle".
This ship is conventionally unarmed, but has amazingly good, nested, force screens, and super heavy tractor-presser beams, along with tractor shears. There are also a number of beam weapons which can, at short range, suppress fission and fusion reactors, as well as a number of the more exotic Fenspace power generation systems, such as cosmic energy screens. However, these beams don't shut-down life support systems.
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind