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Originally Posted by weevis
Heh, thanks again -- I don't disagree with any of this, but it isn't responding to my reading of the book. I didn't say I imagined "doing loops," I said a ship was "in a loop" around something at long range. I said that being in a loop around something at long range didn't sound like escaping to me, so I thought (at first reading) the word "evasive" didn't fit, since evade means "escape." I didn't find this clear. I think more detail won't budge me, since I'm reporting a reaction I already had.
It sounds like when you read the rules that being in a big loop around something wasn't the scenario that came to mind for you, or maybe it did and it *does* sound "evasive" to you. Either way, more power to you. The book's writer thought it fit too. You had different scenarios or word connotations in mind than I did. Which is cool.
I appreciate the help figuring out what the rules intended.
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Yeah, um, evasive maneuvers meaning maneuvers to evade enemy attacks isn't something GURPS Spaceships came up with. It goes at least back to original-series Star Trek. I can't prove whether it actually originated in military usage or whether it's something SF writers invented, but it's common coin at this point either way.