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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: [QB] The way I've used fighters so far has only been for the Romulan War. For that time period I've have 50-m-long "fighters" which are carried four at a time within large carriers. The top speed of The carriers have a cruising speed of about warp 3.5 and take several weeks to travel between stars. The fighters can jump at warp 4 but have too short a range for interstellar travel. So, the carriers carry the fighters within a few hundred AUs of the target, where they fire off their missiles while travelling at high warp. For the Pre-TOS period I'm thinking about (2230s-40s), the level of tech is only slightly lower than TOS. Basically we have everything we have in TOS, just a bit slower and shorter. I'm assuming that we already have FTL weaponry, sensors, communications, targeting, etc. as we have in TOS. I haven't decided whether effective, shield-busting beam weapons are small enough to be carried on fighters; if they were so small, you'd think a cruiser might carry a lot more of them. I'm leaning towards the idea of FTL fighters with short ranges, so that they still have to be carried between star systems. I haven't decided about speed yet, but I'm worried that big ships with big powerplants might be faster than small ships with small power plants. If small ships aren't faster, they're probably more maneuverable, at least and maybe they can get closer to a target before they fire. Thanks so far for the input. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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