From: Phillip E. Pournelle <pepourne@n...>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:24:28 -0400
Subject: FTL Capable Fighters
As an ammendment to my last discussion on FTL fighters, the FTL capability should be purchased at the cost of a vehicle with 2 Mass, because a carrier would have to transport 2 mass per fighter. So even if the fighter is between 0.5 and 1 Mass each the point balance requires costing for 2 Mass. Additionally I would require that each FTL fighter be required to have high endurance. This not only makes sense, since it cannot reload, but also makes the FTL fighter a little expensive to compensate for the fact that a carrier has to pay for its thrust rating as a capital ship. This combined with the fact the FTL fighter has to have a hangar bay somewhere within 1 jump distance will compensate.