On the latest article I have some comments:
1) You're going to have to rewrite or scrap the Mercury Missiles. M Fnord has placed a 'No relativistic KE weapons' rule here. As the one who caused him to issue said rule, I remember it clearly. There's also the fact that as written, they're WMDs. I have no problem with them being extremely fast, but no nuke levels of KE.
(The 'handwave' is that speed drive fields don't work as well in gravity fields because it overrides its own spacetime distortion. This means when drive fields interact the impacting object vastly slows down to a more sane relative speed. This isn't instantaneous, so for the big KKVs this usually gives an impact speed to 60-80 KPS (because they've got more engine); for your missiles? Maybe 15 KPS max?)
2)On a theoretical note: There are going to be 'Dane companies who don't use/trust the Fen claim registries and use a 'Dane claim registry (which might be a bit slow to update). What if two claimants arrive to plant beacons with legal authority, and one has MD hired? My feel is that MD would go with the contract and force the second party off. THAT'S going to cause trouble.
3) I don't see any mother-ships in the Ship Class section. Unless they have there owe FTL coms system, none of the ships seem big enough to mount an Interwave set. I can get than for the guided missiles (although it seems overkill at the combat ranges MD likely operate at).
4) IIRC, the Descent type ships are still fighter sized. I can get tunnels being big enough to fit digging machinery, but that still much smaller than the Descent ships. Given how much your packing into the ships, I don't see how they can bee that small.
1) You're going to have to rewrite or scrap the Mercury Missiles. M Fnord has placed a 'No relativistic KE weapons' rule here. As the one who caused him to issue said rule, I remember it clearly. There's also the fact that as written, they're WMDs. I have no problem with them being extremely fast, but no nuke levels of KE.
(The 'handwave' is that speed drive fields don't work as well in gravity fields because it overrides its own spacetime distortion. This means when drive fields interact the impacting object vastly slows down to a more sane relative speed. This isn't instantaneous, so for the big KKVs this usually gives an impact speed to 60-80 KPS (because they've got more engine); for your missiles? Maybe 15 KPS max?)
2)On a theoretical note: There are going to be 'Dane companies who don't use/trust the Fen claim registries and use a 'Dane claim registry (which might be a bit slow to update). What if two claimants arrive to plant beacons with legal authority, and one has MD hired? My feel is that MD would go with the contract and force the second party off. THAT'S going to cause trouble.
3) I don't see any mother-ships in the Ship Class section. Unless they have there owe FTL coms system, none of the ships seem big enough to mount an Interwave set. I can get than for the guided missiles (although it seems overkill at the combat ranges MD likely operate at).
4) IIRC, the Descent type ships are still fighter sized. I can get tunnels being big enough to fit digging machinery, but that still much smaller than the Descent ships. Given how much your packing into the ships, I don't see how they can bee that small.