IF and needles? Re: Nathan's FB3 comments,

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> Needles (yes, I know we have the rules, but no FB ships use em yet)
for
> ORC??

Islamic Fed will use needles
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Just out of curiosity, where is this established? I always considered this a
'high tech' weapon available only to the major powers, if at all.

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> Islamic Fed will use needles

Given that they had to be improved from FT2 to FB1 and even so are rarely
seen, I hadn't made that same assumption. I've been assuming they're X ray
lasers, and we're closer to that than we are to, say, grav drive.

(Oerjan, if you can conveniently sort by weapons--how many of those
1000+
ships in your database have needles?)

That's the "why"--the "where established" is "by me", simply because I
seem to be the noisiest (only?) advocate of the IF and no one has argued with
my vision for them. Kind of odd because I'm Presbyterian & speak no Arabic
(I
know a couple of people who have Arabic as a third language, that's as close
as I come)--if there are Muslims or Arabic speakers on the list, this
would be a good time for them to speak up.

> Laserlight wrote: