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Remontoire wrote:Though not necessarily a combat advantage, the streak drive combined with the wormhole access GA has would greatly speed up logistics/communication within the GA. Given how big the volume of space is and the number of junctions controlled by SEM/RH/IE/ROE ect I think this would be even more effective for GA than MALIGN. Now that the peeps have Simoes seems likely we may see that come into being in the next few books?

Edit: *facepalm* How did I miss tbl already saying this in literally the second post on this thread -.-

ThinksMarkedly wrote:
Simões is in Manticore, not Haven. Unless he's been moved to Gryphon or Bolthole. Though it doesn't make a difference to your conclusion: GA ships will be streak drive capable within a couple of years.

We know that the Mesan streak drive was a brute force approach. Who knows what the the Hemphill-Foraker Dynamic Duo will be able to do to miniaturise it and make it more efficient? Maybe break into the lambda band?

Galactic Sapper wrote:Alliance micro fusion generators would make grazer torpedoes much worse and potentially allow them to be scaled down as well as given much more range. The possibility of grazer torps the size of MDMs should be terrifying.

The torpedo's size made fitting it into magazines and actually firing it awkward, to say the least, and the Sharks had never been intended to deploy it operationally. For that matter, the Sharks themselves had never been supposed to be deployed "operationally." The Leonard Detweiler class, which had been intended to carry out this operation, had been designed with magazines and launch tubes which would make it possible to stow and fire torpedoes internally, but none of the Detweilers were even close to completion, and it had required the development of an ingenious external rack system to allow the Sharks to use it for Oyster Bay.
For all its size, it was also a slow weapon. It was simply impossible to fit a spider drive capable of more than a few hundred gravities' acceleration into something small enough to make a practical weapon. As compensation, however, its drive had almost as much endurance as most of the galaxy's recon drones, which gave it an impressive absolute range. And a large percentage of the torpedo's volume had been reserved for systems which had nothing at all to do with propulsion. Whereas the Royal Manticoran Navy had concentrated on improving the efficiency of its standard laser heads, Daniel Detweiler's R&D staff had taken another approach. They'd figured out how to squeeze what amounted to a cruiser-grade graser projector into something small enough to deploy independently.

Remontoire wrote:Oh is he in Manticore now? My memory tends to get a bit fuzzy when going back to 50 books ago on my reading list [/qupte]

Pritchart brought him with her when she dropped unannounced on Honor and the Queen, along with Cachat and Zilwicki. It was his debrief (under treecat and Honor's watchful eyes and senses) that convinced the Second War to end.

Miniaturization would be key to fitting it into warships without making sacrifices in other areas. Maybe we'll see some SDP's going to plaid?