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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: [QB] Veers: As far as I know these aren't old posts, since I just started them today. Of course, someone (maybe even me) might have posted something similar before. DT: Why does combat have to take place at sublight speeds? In TOS, ships often chased and charged each other at warp speeds and fired phasers or photon torpedoes. If these weapons are faster than light and you can fire when travelling faster than light, slowing down to sublight speeds just makes you an easier target. Sublights speeds only became the norm after Star Wars came out. In TOS, shuttles made interstellar trips, so they had to be FTL-capable. My fighters will also be FTL because that's how I designed them. "Fighter" is really an aircraft designation based on mission rather than size: fighters attack other planes. That designation doesn't really work for spacecraft or boats since most are designed to attack other spacecraft or boats. So space fighters would have to be defined by something else, such as crew, basing, range, payload, or mission. Maybe their can go faster than light but can't travel interstellar distances (they need to be carried)? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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