Apollo below the Wall

You can't put the computers tens to hundreds of light minutes away from the KH2s, that is, in practical terms, the same as them not existing. Plus the need for building huge fortresses isn't exactly suggested by the text or the comparison with the Haven system.

kzt wrote:You can't put the computers tens to hundreds of light minutes away from the KH2s, that is, in practical terms, the same as them not existing. Plus the need for building huge fortresses isn't exactly suggested by the text or the comparison with the Haven system.

As long as the first KH2/Mycroft is at the fortress and you have more stationed every 3LM or so you've got relayed FTL man-in-the-loop control out to the far side of the hyperlimit with no more than 2 minute round trip lag. That's not amazing but it's about 1/2 the control lag than an end of run non-Apollo MDM would have...
Seems pretty feasible to me.

Weird Harold wrote:

Loren Pechtel wrote:How about dual-drive CMs.

Launchers. Dual Drive CMs wouldn't fit in existing launchers, and would reduce the magazine capacity for CMs by (estimated) half

Fire them from the main tubes.

Loren Pechtel wrote:Normally CMs are only used at missiles in your face because they're a lot slower than the missiles they are targeting.

NIT: CMs are faster than attack missiles -- at least they accelerate much faster. ref: the "sprint stage" of cataphracts that uses a CM drive.

Higher acceleration but the drives burn for so much less time that they aren't going nearly as fast.

cthia wrote:Welcome to the forums derKaroliner! Have a beer on us. We're fresh out of Old Tilmans due to shipping problems. But we do have some of our brand new local stock. It's called...

Honor's Heinie - Aged by a prolonged brewing process, tastes like butt but kicks ass.

Very popular, seems everyone wishes a taste of it.

It has become the official house beer in Manticoran country clubs and the subject of discussions of many Pee-ers.

I thought the favorite was Henke-ken!