From: 'Old Man Tom'
To: soc.military.starfighters
RE: Glass Cannons
Frigga's something of a special case, though, because you're a high-value military target and have lots of valuable loot. Your average asteroid miner is a different matter; if they were getting roughed up on a regular basis then that shitweasel Mason wouldn't have had to hire so many heavies to give his little protection racket the necessary verisimilitude. I'm not saying they don't have a legitimate reason to keep some predator-defence firepower around, mind you, but I can't really see a financial case for dedicated fighters that can't be used for anything else. A reasonably fast utility craft with a cargo bay and a couple of 30mm coilguns just in case is probably better value for money and mass-budget.
And I tell you what. The Viper prototype's almost ready for a combat trial; why don't we try a couple of 1v1 exercises? With simunitions only, I hasten to add, we haven't got that personal yet. ;-)
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Me too. But a guy who went Up with a 4.5-inch gun strapped to his ship would tend to have a rather nuanced view of gun control.
To: soc.military.starfighters
RE: Glass Cannons
Frigga's something of a special case, though, because you're a high-value military target and have lots of valuable loot. Your average asteroid miner is a different matter; if they were getting roughed up on a regular basis then that shitweasel Mason wouldn't have had to hire so many heavies to give his little protection racket the necessary verisimilitude. I'm not saying they don't have a legitimate reason to keep some predator-defence firepower around, mind you, but I can't really see a financial case for dedicated fighters that can't be used for anything else. A reasonably fast utility craft with a cargo bay and a couple of 30mm coilguns just in case is probably better value for money and mass-budget.
And I tell you what. The Viper prototype's almost ready for a combat trial; why don't we try a couple of 1v1 exercises? With simunitions only, I hasten to add, we haven't got that personal yet. ;-)
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Me too. But a guy who went Up with a 4.5-inch gun strapped to his ship would tend to have a rather nuanced view of gun control.