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

[Michael Hopcroft]

Eric Funk wrote:
>>> 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
Actually, I have more trouble seeing huge star dreadnoughts as being at 
all practical, simply because scale and hard vacuum don't seem to mix 
very well.