[Spaceships] Actually GMing a world with Pseudovelocity drives?

[Kax]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

"Our weapons fire at the speed of light and our engines move us at faster than the speed of light."

"So?"

"We just shot our own ship down."

Unless the projectiles have their own pseudovelocity propulsion, the ship will collide with them if it is firing forward at any speed worth mentioning. It could I suppose launch them rearward or to the sides.

This came up in an E. E. Doc Smith novel about why missiles were the only weapons used in FTL space battles--beams won't get to the target, and projectiles are right out.