FT Intellectual exercise? (long)

G'day,

> Well to get to the point it mentions an iunusual design

I've never read the book and my firewall stripped off the attachment (doesn't
usually expect to get them from a mailing list so gets suspicious when it
does) so I haven't read your excerpt. However I do play an alien species which
uses an FTL capable spine to jump into a system and then the fleet detaches
itself does its fighting and if forced to go home must reattach etc. I do this
via the tug ftl system. The only thing being the ships have to be fairly small
to pull this without requiring a MAMMOTH spine. Works ok in my background as
the species that uses it a little and so have the equivalent of
miniaturisation (they've just built things to their scale so the end up
smaller than what we use), I based the costs for this off Noams stuff in the
Weapons Defence Archive. Probably not exactly what you're after, but it may
help a tad.

Cheers