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AlexanderHowl · 02-11-2019, 05:20 AM

The problem with a resonant opposing orbit is that the station defenses have a similar advantage against your spacecraft. A smart major power will also seed the rings with two dozen SM+8 automated defensive batteries camouflaged with ice armor. With ten tertiary missile batteries, six sections of ice armor, two VRF tertiary gun batteries, a control room, and a tactical comm/sensor array, they would carry 2,100 20cm missiles and 84,000 2.5 cm rounds each. Since the opposing orbital velocities would be 20 mps, even the 2.5 cm rounds would deal 6d×10+40 damage.

02-11-2019, 05:20 AM	#54
AlexanderHowl Join Date: Feb 2016	Re: [Spaceships] How does large-scale space warfare play out (without superscience)? The problem with a resonant opposing orbit is that the station defenses have a similar advantage against your spacecraft. A smart major power will also seed the rings with two dozen SM+8 automated defensive batteries camouflaged with ice armor. With ten tertiary missile batteries, six sections of ice armor, two VRF tertiary gun batteries, a control room, and a tactical comm/sensor array, they would carry 2,100 20cm missiles and 84,000 2.5 cm rounds each. Since the opposing orbital velocities would be 20 mps, even the 2.5 cm rounds would deal 6d×10+40 damage.