The 'inertia-less' drive from the Lensman series does seem to offer a great defense against anything other than grappling, and if there is no such thing as a tractor beam, all combat will require some sort of mechanical grapple. If you have them on a grapple, how hard is it to board?
I do agree that for successful pirates, the ship costs do need to be low enough to allow a single successful raid to pay off the pirate vessel. (reminder: even lasers produce a gentle push along with the burning effect, so a ship with 0 inertia will just be pushed away by anything that would damage it(short of sticky blobs of acid with negative surface tension and some way to avoid getting covered in stray dust/molecules what would increase their surface tension above 0) On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Johannes Trimmel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Onno Meyer wrote: > >> Hyperdrive has problems with the look and feel of sails at >> the horizon, catching up in a stern chase with enough time >> for deliberations and some fancy sailing. >> > > Maybe if there are extensive preperation neccessary for entering > hyperspace, that can't be done while doing evasive maneuvers. Like the > drive needs to "warm up" under zero G (or practically zero G) for an > hour and using the ordinary space drive foils the zero G part. > > An other idea for bording: If armour is very cheap and light compared to > the available weaponry, shooting at ships becomes pointless. Standard ship > combat might become, ram, graple, board. > > And if you have hyper or warp drives, you can have different rules, which > weapons work how in ordinary space and when under FTL. Like boarding works > well in hyperspace and blowing to bits in ordinary space. > > > > One mans groundfloor is an other mans earthmissle > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > > Johannes Trimmel > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > -- The man that holds fast to his bitterness will eventually be consumed by it, but if you let it go, your arms will be free to seize the glory that is life. -Terwin _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
