[Space] Adapting "Honorverse" Concepts to GURPS

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by Bengt

Yeah, "proper" wasn't very clear. In this context when I hear AI I think of what is basically a character, e.g. EDI in Mass Effect 2.

Yeah, that would be the 'only almost certain' end.

Originally Posted by Bengt

Contemporary "AI" are not necessarily very noticeable if they are mostly advisory. In the particular case of live fire I would find it plausible if they were strictly advisory. YMMV.

Real world CIWS, like Honorverse laser clusters, can and do fire under fully automatic control. I do think it's not unreasonable to retain human direction (with comprehensive computer assistance) for offensive missile launches and energy weapons. But they could do a lot with relatively trivial smarts added to missiles and drones. Light-lag and shipboard telemetry links are major problems for missile combat because their missiles are very dumb.