kzt wrote:You can't travel through hyper with a fleet of missiles deployed. Otherwise Chin wouldn't have started rolling pods as soon as she exited hyper, she would have been firing. And didn't.
tlb wrote:And yet Honor can take her ships through the wormhole with one third of their pods tractored outside? We have seen LAC's tractored outside in HotQ and Frigates tractored outside through a jump in TEiF.
kzt wrote:That's part of the technical edge of the RMN. They hold the pods inside the hyper envelope because they are tractored to the hull.
The Peep BC in HoQ had a weird engineering arrangement because there was an assumption that they would soon have tech from Manticore. Which, it turned out, was a mistake.
Loren Pechtel wrote:You can hyper with them on the hull. You can't have them free flying in a grav wave or wormhole, though.
The engineering difference AFTER HotQ had to do with the strength of the wedge nodes, because they were hoping to get the improved compensator based on the Grayson design; this would not have anything to do with the strength of the hyperspace generator.
Why do you assume that because the the donkey's tractors are holding the pods, that they are not basically on the skin of the ship? There is no reason that the donkeys cannot hold them close , through the jump and then within the wedge; until it is time to deploy them. From chapter 17 of
The Honor of the Queen:
Valentine had pointed out that both Thunder and Principality had far more powerful hyper generators than any Masadan starship. In fact, their generators were powerful enough to extend their translation fields over six kilometers beyond their own hulls if he redlined them. That meant that if they translated from rest, they could take anything within six kilometers with them when they did. And that meant that if Masadan LACs clustered closely enough around them, they could boost the lighter vessels into hyper space.
Normally, that would have been little more than an interesting parlor trick, but Valentine had taken the entire idea one stage further. No LAC crew could survive the sort of acceleration ships routinely pulled in hyper for the simple reason that their inertial compensator would pack up the instant they tried it. But if they took the entire crew off and removed or secured all loose gear, Valentine suggested, there was no reason the ships themselves couldn’t take the acceleration on the end of a tractor beam.
Yu had thought he was out of his mind, but the engineer had pulled up the numbers on his terminal and demonstrated the theoretical possibility. Simonds had jumped at it, and to Yu’s considerable surprise, it had worked.
But there is more than you all need to think about.
In another thread, people are saying Theisman is a great strategist; well that cannot be true if the result of Honor jumping with Kuzak, before Chin appears, is the complete defeat of both Tourville and Chin. Instead Theisman, Tourville and Chin all expected Haven's fleets to be hurt and expected Honor's and Kuzak's fleets to be destroyed. Tourville specifically held off the call for Chin to jump, hoping that Honor would join in. So what are you all not considering that they did? Or was Theisman "smoking crack" and his name should be struck from the list of top strategists?
