[GZG] Re: NSL Ships - Names & SDN

Sorry, I was just thinking that the NSL ships tended to be quite slow so
naming them for runners seemed inappropriate because of this lack of speed and
dong so ironically would be more of a British (NAC) thing – so you might have
an NAC oilier [1] named for Sebastian Coe, something slow and ungainly as
opposed to something fast and nippy.

The notes for the new NSL SDN look rather jolly so far. What I find
particularly interesting is the idea of the Kra’Vak war influencing human
ship designs, not incorporating new technology (a few new tech toys excepted
but no alien tech) but evolving to meet a very different threat – well maybe
not so different for the NSL, it is faster than you and is throwing a lot of
kinetic energy your way albeit from a mass driver rather than as a missile
[2].

Michael

Notes 1. A big tanker would be slow but a replenishment ship would have to be
able to keep up with the ships she served – one for a CruRon might be quite
fast. It all depends on it’s roll and on doctrine.

2. The missiles in FT. Is there any official call on what the warheads are? I
had always casually and thoughtlessly assumed nukes, possibly with lasing rods
to allow them to produce gamma ray lasers but I suppose they could use KE
penetrators (steerable submunitions?) – maybe even like old style BB shells
that have to penetrated then explode. I am assuming that anything but a
contact detonation with chemical explosives would be pretty useless in space
as there is no air to carry a shock wave.

It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer of this has
done what he has done.
  - Richelieu