JeffEngel wrote:Somtaaw wrote:Well, the grav lance is like all those now captured SLN warships. They got dropped into the story, and we're all puzzling how these seemingly useless things get used. We're almost a think-tank, just thinkinng up possibilities. The more possibilities we can think up, the more likely we might inspire DW to figure out a way to do something to shut us all up
I wonder if the SLN prizes were thrown in just to give us something to chew on other than the grav lance.
Ya know - as capital ships of their era, the SLN prizes probably have grav lances and energy torpedoes themselves.... Surely something can be done with them using the grav lances.... *hides*
No grav lances or energy torpedoes mentioned on any of the SLN BCs or SDs.
According to House of Steel, the Gladiator-class SD incorporated "the newly-developed grav lance" into its broadside. It was launched in 1868, with the Homer-class coming out in 1863 also equipped with a grav lance.
So grav lance technology was developed in the 1860s or maybe 50s. Energy torpedo launchers are older, but possibly only by a few decades - they're on the Ad Astra dreadnought as of the 1878 refit, but may have been present all the way back to 1632.
From a scan of the HoS stats, only two Manticoran wallers mount grav lances. The aforementioned Gladiator and the Anduril SD. But most of the other pre-pod wallers have at least some energy torpedos.
