[FT]Near Future Equipment

Has anyone done any "near future" ship equipment. (ie: done up some
rules for handling near future combat?  Say 2020-2060...

> Donald Hosford wrote:

> Has anyone done any "near future" ship equipment. (ie: done up some

> At 12:35 AM 4/15/99 -0400, you wrote:

Was there ever a period of peace during the time? I mean aren't their border
skirmishes, raids, minor acts of war pretty much going on all the time? I was
under the impression that there has pretty much been no period of peace in
entirity during the whole time scale.

> Jason Stephensen wrote:

> >Was there any fighting in the official history from 2020 - 2070 or

> Donald Hosford wrote:

Have you looked at Keith Watt's Solar Thrust rules? It's not based on the GZG
timeline, but it's a good universe, and the rules are perfect
for those reality monkeys out there.  (8-)

Now, if somebody could provide the link for the site... though I suppose
I could just look it up in the Archives myself.  Gah.  Need sleep.  (8-)

J.

> Jerry Han wrote:

> Donald Hosford wrote:

No weapons except the ones in the books.

> Now, if somebody could provide the link for the site... though I
(8-)
> J.

> On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Donald Hosford wrote:

> Jerry Han wrote:

My original purpose for Solar Thrust was to provide a hard-science
setting for Full Thrust, hence I just specified which weapons were unphysical
rather than create new ones. But in truth, FT the weaponry isn't bad. With 1
MU = 80 km, you can use lasers as energy weapons and of course missiles will
always be important weapon systems. I have roughed out, but
not written, an article on near-future weaponry and will put it up
eventually, but other than particle accelerators, mass drivers, lasers (of
various wavelengths), and missiles, these's not much more I see in my
crystal ball by 2063.  I plan to do some energy delivered/damage
calculations, but really the FT rules are fine - there's not much need
for new rules that not everyone will agree on.

That said, Solar Thrust is fast being expanded into a full independent
strategic, tactical, and roleplaying (!) game, and so I will probably write
some rules based on the calculations hinted at above.

The URL for the site is:

> Keith Watt wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Donald Hosford wrote: