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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Capt_Frank_Hollister: [QB] Ah, but they are essentially rockets, with vectored thrust to boot. Landing shuttles would only be harmed if the impulse emgines were actually in the middle of a burn. And turning off the SSF and increasing the effective mass of the ship would indeed slow a ship down. Otherwise, the ship would violate the first law of thermodynamics. See my post about five posts up using the equation for kinetic energy It just wouldn't be able to bring it to a stop. My post at the top of the page explains why the RCS would not be able to stop the ship. And I don't mean to harp on it, but the impulse engines didn't have SSF generators until teh Ambassador class. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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