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Originally Posted by jason taylor
Most fights will take place outside the range anyway?
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Beam combat, if it exists, will almost certainly occur at ranges
vastly shorter than detection range. A 99% black hull has an apparent magnitude of 0 (trivially visible) at about 10,000 diameters, and you can increase that range by a factor of 1,000 with quite modest (TL 8 hobbyist) hardware.