[Spaceships][Vorkosigan] Off-Size Systems and Power

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Actually the thought which occurs to me is sparked by the capacitor topic. It could be that firing your Wave Motion Cannon might consume all of your power points, or even the power points from more than one turn.

If Spaceships did have capacitors firing the Extraordinarily Large Gun could drain those but could not keep your power plants from producing energy for the next minute (which is why this sort of idea has always been sub-rational except maybe if your "ships" really were living beings).

Mostly though Spaceships ignores questions of stored energy and uses only measures of sustained output and consumption. That's why a main battery uses the same amount of PP no matter how long the Turn length is.