Making EM Guns Viable in Space Combat (3e)

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Rupert

Absolutely, but if you want a consistent setting, it does need to be addressed. So should 'fighters vs battleships', probably.

The straightforward way to have 'fighters vs battleships' is by having two core drive technologies with different preferred scales. In the traditional case, it's because water drives get more efficient as you get bigger up to some enormous scale, whereas aircraft drivetrains don't scale up very well.