#Endless sky ships with fighter bays update#

Let's make it easy and say the fighter is traveling upwards at 90 degrees to the laser so the computer can use really simple trig. So a laser fires at a fighter 3 yards tall 239,000mi away. Secondly, even if the fighter were traveling is a predictable straight line, would the computer be able to hit it anyways? That might seem like a simple yes, but it really isn't once you consider how far away such a small target actually is.

#Endless sky ships with fighter bays update#

If the fighter is always altering it's course this estimate will always be wrong and it will take 5 seconds for the firing computer to even confirm whether or not it made a hit to update it's firing solutions and try again. Firstly, the laser that's firing can only determine a shot based on trajectories that are 2.5 seconds old. I think there's two problems with this suggestion. As such it wouldn't have enough time to evade enough shots to make it closer to a target. In Future War Stories, the author cites that a fighter craft at a range of ~239,000mi would have about 2.5 seconds to dodge an incoming laser. I'd even go so far as to say that fighters/drones might actually be vital in scifi settings that are trying to accurately portray space warfare. But is that all there is to it? I'd take the unpopular opinion that the picture of warfare for a fighter/drone wouldn't be as bleak and clear cut as the raw science makes it seem once you start considering the realities of how those kinds of weapons might perform in real world conditions. Lasers travel at light speed and would only have to point at the target and at shorter distances rail projectiles move fast enough that dodging becomes impossible. At a glance this would seem like a reasonable assumption. In general they are regarded as being easy targets that, at interstellar ranges would be unable to survive in a battlefield that employs current plausible scifi weaponry such as laser and railguns. The Buffalo is an advanced starter level ship.It's a somewhat accepted convention that in realistic scifi space fighters should be impossible to use effectively. The Mk5 changes brought in a completely new lukium shielded power core, more lasers and collectors and new devices such as the Material Scanner and Ship Diagnostic Scanner. The ship is equipped with 172 ore cargo crates and can go up to 125 m/s when empty. The strafe thrusters can also be used to counter drift.

The ship has strong strafe thrusters to help avoid collisions with asteroids, without having to go slow in the belt. Originally designed as the Hauler's big brother, it can travel much deeper into the asteroid belt and bring back more extensive amounts of ore. The Buffalo has been completely overhauled for its Mk.5 configuration. Finally the Croc is fully plated with an aegisium hull for protection against corrosive materials. On average each fuel chamber has three enhancer beams going through them, with the smaller side fuel chambers only having one enhancer each. The ship can carry 192 crates, 28 fuel chambers, eight medium tanks and 12 small tanks. The Croc is equipped with 10 mining lasers, 12 collectors, one material scanner, a smart display and and the Ys.pos navigation system. It is especially efficient when used together with a hauler ship that can serve as a link between the mining location and a station or a Capital Ship. The Croc is a advanced mining platform for belt asteroids. The practical ADCD (Automatic Distance Closure Device), navigation via ISAN Mono and our proven oversize bumpers round off the package. This latest version has a capacity of 56 cargo crates, a top speed of 150/130 meters per second (empty/fully loaded) and it now has the option of retrofitting a mining laser (turret or fixed) and a collector. The result is a real workhorse that's appreciated by aspiring beginners and rare ore hunters alike. The original version was modified and extended many times. Born purely out of necessity and without the prospect of a great future, this uncreative box ship should have ended up on the scrap heap long ago. This is already indicated by its untypical name (Notnagel = 'emergency-nail', meaning stopgap). At least we didn't want to admit it openly for a long time. The NOTNAGEL Class made by DURATECH stands for purism, toughness and top speed.