Re ( how many Re:s I don't Know) Lag....

By all means use 'slow' light speed limited detectors whenever you come up
against any of my fleets. Personally my ancestors developed tachyon beam
communications when they started to explore the galaxy in slower than light
generation ships and didn't like the idea of waiting years for a reply to
their 'conversations'.!! Once we developed FTL drives the development of FTL
detectors became essential. ( It's not very pleasant to detect a planet by
running into it at relativistic velocities - The crew don't know
anything about it but would you volunteer to join a ship that can't see where
it is going! and besides it plays havoc with the economy!!!). To avoid this we
developed a detector similar in principle to your prehistoric radar but using
tachyon technology (you may wish to call it TADAR). Even our slow
recreationhal yachts use such beams travelling at speeds several googolplex
orders of magnitude faster than light. This means we can target our weapons
knowing exactly where you will be when our weapons hit ( after all our
military sensors are even faster than the recreational ones!!!!) How many G
acceleration do you need to pull to avoid this even at extreme AA battery
range in a scout ship (5m diameter)? Effectively this means detection and
firing are instantaneous. OK you may still make the manouvre ( and survive) as
quantum effects do still occur. Actually beam dispersion by space dust is a
much more likely reason for such misses.

Antiquities Officer - Anthropology Section
United Spaceways Research Vessel #28745764-067
Fleet Officer Captain Craig Mitchell Commanding USS Proteus