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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [QB] Yes, Honorverse ships don't have glowing aft-mounted thruster engines like most other franchises. The ship's "impeller drive" generates a forcefield, the impeller wedge, that moves the ship in sublight mode. It's shaped like a clamshell with holes up front, in the back and on the sides. The doctrine usually is to fire your broadside, then roll onto the side and let the topside of your wedge absorb the return fire. Here is another point where I question Weber's judgement. The impeller wedge, as I would draw it, would extend about two shiplengths in level directions, one shiplength high. Much larger than a Galaxy class shield bubble, but not infeasible. It would be also be a very attractive and grateful aesthetic element to draw in artwork (I will do that next, after ventral view). But Weber decides that the impeller wedge extends "hundreds of kilometers" in all directions, a figure totally meaningless to the human imagination, as it would make the ship driving the wedge smaller than a grain of sand, in scale. The kind of power needed to generate something like this is unimaginable and pointlessly improbable to the reader, it's a lot to file under "suspension of disbelief". It's the same with weapon ranges. The common Honorverse laser, the weakest weapon in a warship's arsenal, has an effective range of one million kilometers, according to Weber. The planet Earth is thirteen thousand kilometers wide. The moon is four hundred thousand kilometers from Earth at its farthest point. So is a million kilometers really necessary? Giving even the smallest frigate class ship the gunpower of the Macross SDF-1? If Weber would've said 2000 km for lasers I would've been happy, because that is just enough for planetary bombardment in medium earth orbit. And that's what my imaginary spec card for HMS Hammer would say. You know, if I'd been interested in statistics. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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