[Spaceships] Actually GMing a world with Pseudovelocity drives?

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Kax

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.

I do not believe this to be accurate.

Doc's Bibliography is at the bottom of this.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Smith

......and I have read all of the fictional works in question. There was no situation such as you have mentioned in any of them that I can remember.

Specifically, In the Skylark and Lensmen novels FTL combat featured beams of energy that travelled at FTL speeds.

The two Subspace books used a subspace drive whether ships did not interact at FTL speeds. Same for Masters of Space.

In Galaxy Primes interstellar travel was by means of psionic teleportation and ship combat was by other psionic means.

There was little or nothing about FTL ships in the Family D'Alembert novella that Smith actually wrote and Lord Tedric was about Time Travel and medieval fantasy. Goldin and Eklunds continuations of these series are soemthing I can't comment on though I believe I read the Goldin works.