Theemile wrote:
The Sag-Bs have the ability to fire 90 degrees offbore (really "control" 90 degree offbore), firing EDMs. In addition to it's bow & Stern walls, it carried a heavy BC grade graser energy armament. A single Sag-B could easily take a 1905 BC
I'd forgotten sag-B could do offbore. the grasers aren't really a problem. anyone could do that if they wished generally speaking a graser is a graser, manticore's might be more efficient and smaller for their throw weight but outside the haven sector people don't think the fewer but heavier school of design is the way to go.
with the cataphract being shared so widely to the SLN manticore can sell the EDM which is almost its equal and still retain the secrets of proper DDM/MDM.
really it is only the offbore and compensator that prevents the Sag b from being sellable. I do wonder how much work/time/money would be required to remove the off-bore ability.
of course that still leaves the compensator problem. how long can the GA keep that knowledge to themselves. how long before the merchant cartels are screaming for the ability?
or would they. yes it might speed up passage to the hyper limit but unless they start investing in better rad shielding and bigger more capable hyper drives the biggest time sink, the hyper part of the journey will not change.