Re FT-Forts

I recenctly nipped into town and picked up the last model of B5 from a local
model store... its about 40 cm long, pretty cool looking and features a spiffy
rotating section in the middle. I need to sit down and work the thing out...
I'm planning on using a 'sections' type design for it (ie you have to beat up
certain sections to kill the thing), with 3 reactor centers to power the
vessel (ie the solar panels on either side and the reactor right at the end).
I'm considering mounting about 12 fighter bays on it, with the standard issue
of big missile launcher bays and LOTS of beam weapons and PDS. Following NSL
design procedures it'll be heavy on the armor but with about grade 1 screens
for most of the vessel, and grade 2s on vital areas.

> Alister Crowe wrote:

> I recenctly nipped into town and picked up the last model of B5 from a

<Pedant> Those are not solar panels (more precisely, they shouldn't be solar
panels), they are radiator panels for whatever mechanism converts the heat
produced by the fusion reactors into more useful forms of energy. [Warning!
Physics bafflegab] Their resemblance to solar arrays is due to the surface
treatment that allows them to go from strongly emissive (in shadow) to
strongly reflective

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