[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 680 ? Hybrid Starfighter

[Eric Funk]

>> It depends whether you want "boat vs boat" or "plane vs. boat".
>
> If it's the latter, you need some sort of weirdness to replicate the
> differential manoeuvreability. One setting I was working on had a
> pseudo-inertial drive with power consumption rising as the fifth power
> of vehicle mass... which made one-man starfighters practicable.

The catch is to make it plausable to have fighters, but not cruisers or 
1,000G torpedoes.

So if "super" ractionless drives only work for, say, 20 to 40 ton craft, 
then we have fighters, but not missiles

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Eric Funk
"Knowledge Brings Fear" -- Motto of Mars University, Futurama