Reiterating in the IRC.
The upshot of an acceleration drive is that you could in theory break .2c. They aren't limited like speed drives are. And you can shut them off and coast
The downside is they take forever to get up to speed (comparatively), they take a lot of fuel (And adding more fuel increases your mass, which means you need even more fuel to accelerate that mass), if you aren't careful you can strand yourself travelling off into infinity, and they require much more careful piloting and control than a speed drive which zips around like the shuttles in Armageddon.
Hitting something at .1c would be quite difficult anyway. And it would be obvious enough that it was coming since most acc' drives scream I AM HERE!! when they're actually running, and take so long to get up to dangerous speed that it'd be possible to stop it before any harm could be done. It's why the Boskone never used Destiny Nova's sister ships to ram.... they were smart enough to realise it'd be blindingly obvious and easy to stop, or most likely they would miss if they fired the drives far enough out to be 'less easy' to detect.
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The upshot of an acceleration drive is that you could in theory break .2c. They aren't limited like speed drives are. And you can shut them off and coast
The downside is they take forever to get up to speed (comparatively), they take a lot of fuel (And adding more fuel increases your mass, which means you need even more fuel to accelerate that mass), if you aren't careful you can strand yourself travelling off into infinity, and they require much more careful piloting and control than a speed drive which zips around like the shuttles in Armageddon.
Hitting something at .1c would be quite difficult anyway. And it would be obvious enough that it was coming since most acc' drives scream I AM HERE!! when they're actually running, and take so long to get up to dangerous speed that it'd be possible to stop it before any harm could be done. It's why the Boskone never used Destiny Nova's sister ships to ram.... they were smart enough to realise it'd be blindingly obvious and easy to stop, or most likely they would miss if they fired the drives far enough out to be 'less easy' to detect.
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