KageRyu
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 Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:02 am Post subject: |
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| Jedi Skyler wrote: | See? I'm not a total crack head after all! 
The thing's already been conceived! I guess we're just hashing out the issues that Palpatine's engineers already cooked up.
At least we're not totally off our nut, though boys! 8) |
I have used the concept of Hyperspace Missiles in many a sci-fi game that I have both run and played in, including a Space Empire wargame I was in (much to the chagrin of one of my adversaries). It is a feasable concept. And if you use the smaller H-Drives like Starfighters use, you get compact size, and power. Pop in a single jump droid brain, like an astromech's, and you have 1-jump to target's anihilation. It would have to be programmed prior to launch, meaning a platform or ship so equipped, and some time. Figure at least 15-30 minutes of pre-flight preparation to prepare and double check the hyperspace course. In all and any cases, such weapons would best be served as a Strategic Weapon (starships are just too small and fast to target with hyperspace jumps...you could only get close). A sure fire way of raining death on an enemy world.
Heck, in one Star Wars game, a player's ship suffered a hyperspace mishap, and collided with a long, hyperspace capable cylinder. It was completely fragmented by the impact (the player's ship was heavily damaged). The players never figured out the significance, but it was a Hyperdrive boosted, thermonuclear missile.
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