kzt wrote:JohnRoth wrote:It takes time to cycle a hyper generator. According to ART, it takes a Solly SD 16 minutes to go from the translation to normal space to be able to translate back into hyper.
That's plenty of time for the outer defenses to slag all those SDs.
Who would use SDs? My hope is to gets ships in energy range of the hostile ships, to do that I need a lot of light ships. At energy range a single graser will do a number on the light ships the RMN is deploying. Baring that I want to get deep inside of SDM range, with lots of pods of heavy warhead missiles in addition to the internal launchers.
The SDs I leave in hyper, waiting for people to attempt to stealthfully hyper out. It's not stealthy on the other side of the alpha wall.
The RMN is deploying
primarily light units, but they're also sending CLACs, which to date have not been observed deploying their swarm.
As the readers, we know that the forces actually doing it are simply light cruisers, with CLAC's, and a few freighters packed with pods doing the takeovers.
To the nominal owners of the wormholes, all they see is 4-12 heavy cruisers and a few SD's popping out to say "hello there, sorry to bother you but you obviously didn't get the memo that we're the new owners. We're here to evict you and take control, have a nice day."
