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Straybow
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I think the thickness and mass of material required to stop a laser would be substantially more than one could generate "on the fly." A foam would only dissipate a tiny fraction of the many megajoules of laser energy, and couldn't generate enough vapor to reflect any substantial portion of the remaining.
The Oz
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Straybow:
No, probably not anything we'd recognize as a "foam." If I'd ever allowed it and got questioned about it, I'd probably have made up some kind of handwave about using the same materials as found in sandcaster canisters. After all, 50kg of material which is then spread out into space can stop multiple laser beams?
No, probably not anything we'd recognize as a "foam." If I'd ever allowed it and got questioned about it, I'd probably have made up some kind of handwave about using the same materials as found in sandcaster canisters. After all, 50kg of material which is then spread out into space can stop multiple laser beams?
The Oz
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Straybow:
No, probably not anything we'd recognize as a "foam." If I'd ever allowed it and got questioned about it, I'd probably have made up some kind of handwave about using the same materials as found in sandcaster canisters. After all, 50kg of material which is then spread out into space can stop multiple laser beams?
No, probably not anything we'd recognize as a "foam." If I'd ever allowed it and got questioned about it, I'd probably have made up some kind of handwave about using the same materials as found in sandcaster canisters. After all, 50kg of material which is then spread out into space can stop multiple laser beams?
I know the sensor rules seem somewhat rules-generic, and are at:
http://traveller.mu.org/house/sensor.rules.html
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I know the sensor rules seem somewhat rules-generic, and are at:
http://traveller.mu.org/house/sensor.rules.html
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Citizens of the Imperium » Other Versions of Traveller » T4 - Marc Miller's Traveller » FFS2
Straybow
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Yeah, well don't forget that the Traveller universe is only 2D, so portions of the beam that get refracted a little bit out-of-plane disappear.
Once the beam hits an embedded 3D object (your ship) the 2D defraction effect no longer takes effect. Yeah, that's how it works.
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Makes me think it can't possibly be the same kind of "Play Sand" that we buy at Home Depot...
And too, in the CT world, it almost seems like lasers take 15 minutes to charge, then you get one shot, and then you recharge for another 15 minutes... but of course it's probably just an abstraction of a beam or pulse laser firing continuously (I suppose).
And too, in the CT world, it almost seems like lasers take 15 minutes to charge, then you get one shot, and then you recharge for another 15 minutes... but of course it's probably just an abstraction of a beam or pulse laser firing continuously (I suppose).
Makes me think it can't possibly be the same kind of "Play Sand" that we buy at Home Depot...
And too, in the CT world, it almost seems like lasers take 15 minutes to charge, then you get one shot, and then you recharge for another 15 minutes... but of course it's probably just an abstraction of a beam or pulse laser firing continuously (I suppose).
And too, in the CT world, it almost seems like lasers take 15 minutes to charge, then you get one shot, and then you recharge for another 15 minutes... but of course it's probably just an abstraction of a beam or pulse laser firing continuously (I suppose).
mike wightman
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I've always thought of it as saturating the predicted future position volume (area for the 2D abstraction) with fire for the whole of the combat turn, hence the EP expenditure.
mike wightman
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I've always thought of it as saturating the predicted future position volume (area for the 2D abstraction) with fire for the whole of the combat turn, hence the EP expenditure.
The Oz
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I've always thought of "sand" as a carefully crafted mix of ablative and refractive crystals that absorb and diffuse the incoming laser beam.
The trouble I have is imagining how just 50kg of sand can provide so much protection over such a wide arc. I much prefer to use sand as a "point defense" against laser fire, even if that's also hard to believe in some ways.
The trouble I have is imagining how just 50kg of sand can provide so much protection over such a wide arc. I much prefer to use sand as a "point defense" against laser fire, even if that's also hard to believe in some ways.
The Oz
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I've always thought of "sand" as a carefully crafted mix of ablative and refractive crystals that absorb and diffuse the incoming laser beam.
The trouble I have is imagining how just 50kg of sand can provide so much protection over such a wide arc. I much prefer to use sand as a "point defense" against laser fire, even if that's also hard to believe in some ways.
The trouble I have is imagining how just 50kg of sand can provide so much protection over such a wide arc. I much prefer to use sand as a "point defense" against laser fire, even if that's also hard to believe in some ways.
Glen Allen Mcinnes
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Sand casters are a hold-over from the book 2 rules when everyone was building ships less than 1K tons they never botherd to scale for larger ships (as far as i can tell) as they had the new armor rules in high gard and nastier weapons for capital ships to shoot at each other. a fair house rule would be that each canaster provides the listed protection per every 500-1000 tons (apx.) of starship and the "sand" is held in place by the ships EM & grav feilds also having "sand" depolied would make you a bigger sencor target and may distort your sensor imiage making it harder to tell who or what you are (with the right kind of sand) with out IFF.
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