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AlexanderHowl · 01-21-2019, 11:42 AM

A large enough spaceship can function as a mobile station. While a mobile station may seem less efficient than a static station, it has the advantage of being less vulnerable to ballistic attacks from a planetary surface and can always retreat. After all, the Death Star was a mobile station...though it was victim to commanders who did not seem to understand that mobile stations should retreat from attacks rather than heading towards them (dropping a squadron of TIE-fighters to engage the Rebel forces while the Death Star retreated would have been a much more logical reaction).

01-21-2019, 11:42 AM	#38
AlexanderHowl Join Date: Feb 2016	Re: Orbital Lasers A large enough spaceship can function as a mobile station. While a mobile station may seem less efficient than a static station, it has the advantage of being less vulnerable to ballistic attacks from a planetary surface and can always retreat. After all, the Death Star was a mobile station...though it was victim to commanders who did not seem to understand that mobile stations should retreat from attacks rather than heading towards them (dropping a squadron of TIE-fighters to engage the Rebel forces while the Death Star retreated would have been a much more logical reaction).