Re: New poll (Nebula v Nebulon) -- Star Trek vs Star Wars

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Subject: Re: New poll (Nebula v Nebulon)

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The Divine Shadow

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Date Posted: 02:12:11 10/18/02 Fri
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In reply to: NeutralZone 's message, "Re: New poll (Nebula v Nebulon)" on 12:26:35 10/17/02 Thu

>>only leaves"warp" well it is no more difficult to go
>to warp than
>>it is to use a Hyperdrive (this is not conjecture) I
>>don't have to prove this the evidence is there.
>>Microjumps are no more difficult to make than warp
>>jumps.
>
> So if we use
>>hyperdrives to keep up with the little warp jumps or
>>use tractor beams (Remember TIE Defenders) we might
>>see a different outcome.
>
>OK, now mostly people are agreed that Hyperdrive is
>ridiculously faster than warp. Correct?
>Microjumps would seem to me, based on the films
>anyway, I've never read anything about them in books,
>to be very difficult in any situation let alone
>combat, I mean you need to enter hyperspace and
>probably exit less than a microsecond after or
>overshoot by a massive margin, and don't microjumps
>take lots of navigation calculations, they always seem
>to in fan-fics but again I may be wrong, but a TIE
>pilot can't be expected to do all those while flying
>in combat can he?

He doesn't need to, the on-board computer would do that for him. and incidently micro-jumps don't require calcs at all, but Safe micro-jumps do.

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