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Old 08-26-2015, 11:13 AM   #38
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Default Re: [Spaceships] Heat Signature, Cloaking Device, and Stealth Hull

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Originally Posted by jason taylor View Post
Most fights will take place outside the range anyway?
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.
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