Solly Fleet Advancements

lyonheart wrote:[snip - htm]
I have posted many times my simple suggested breakdown of the ~600 SDF's with hyper warships, being more than willing to consider anyone else's yet I've never had a detailed alternative (IIRC) which surprises me greatly, such as why not continue the 2-1 ratio etc?

Here it is again:

300 with 5-6 hyper warships,
150 with 10-12 " "
75 with 25-50 " "
37 with 50-100 " "
19 with 100-200 " "
10 with 200-400 " "
9 with 400-800 " "

In response, RFC has stated no SDF has more than ~800 hyper warships, which explains the modified bottom limit, but its a fairly simple progression and I'm surprised better ones haven't come up in all these threads.

You can easily suggest your own SDF sizes of larger groupings around 30, 60 or 90; or 40 and 80 etc.

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Eagleeye wrote:How many of the Core worlds are near enough to earth to get to them in, say, 4 weeks max one-way, and without using wormholes? Is there a core world in Alpha or Proxima Centauri? In Sirius? In Barnard's Star? In Ross 248? And how are the relations between the Mandarins and these coreworlds or between these coreworlds themselves? Are they able to work together to overcome the technological gap between the GA and the SLN? Because any technological advancements the SLN can achieve in the near future must be developed, tested, produced and distributed either in the Solar System itself or in one of these near-earth Mandarin-friendly Core worlds.

kzt wrote:It has a range of infinity. It all depends on how long you wait before lighting the second stage.

n7axw wrote:I have the impression that the Catapharat has a range of about 15 million klicks-somebody correct me if I am off here-- If so what is there to be so excited about when a MK 16 has a range of 30 million klicks + and a Mk 23 has a range of 60 ++ and Apollo at about 80 +++.

So what's so exciting about a catapharat??

Torch of Freedon
Chapter 58 wrote:So they'd taken another approach as an intermediate step. The Cataphract was a rather basic concept, actually—they'd simply grafted what amounted to an entire counter-missile drive unit onto the end of a standard shipkiller. Coming up with an arrangement which let them cram that much impeller power and a worthwhile laser head into something they could fit onto the end of a standard missile had demanded quite a bit of ingenuity (and not a few basic compromises), but it had been a far easier task than duplicating a full scale multidrive missile would have been.

There were drawbacks, of course; there always were, and especially so in what had to be a compromise solution.
The weapon carried only half as many lasing rods as a standard laser head. Worse, the Cataphract was twenty percent longer than a standard missile of any given weight, which meant it would no longer fit into launch tubes which had been designed to handle the single-drive missile upon which it was based. The Cataphract-C, built around the SLN's Trebuchet capital missile, could be fired only out of one of the missile pods the MAN hadn't seen fit to offer Citizen Commodore Luff. The Cataphract-B, based on the Javelin missile intended for the League's battlecruisers and heavy cruisers, could be fired from a standard superdreadnought missile tube, but not by an Indefatigable or a Warlord-C. But Luff's battlecruisers could fire the Cataphract-A, based on the Spatha, the SLN's new-model destroyer and light cruiser shipkiller. His Mars-Cs could have, as well, but only the battlecruisers had been supplied with the new weapon, and even they carried only enough of them for a dozen full broadsides.

Compared to standard missiles of their size, their warheads were light, and the onboard seekers, ECM, and penetration aids which could be stuffed into such a size-restricted terminal bus were limited. But the weapon had a powered range from rest of almost 16.6 million kilometers, nobody had ever even imagined that it might exist . . . and Luff's fourteen battlecruisers mounted over eight hundred broadside missile tubes.

kzt wrote:Logically a CM should be able to accelerate a really big missile less then a small missile, but I'm not sure how much that matters with wedges etc.

kzt wrote:If you put a CM on the extended range missiles that might be interesting.