Mothership not need sub-light engine with a thrust of giving acceleration like that develops gunboat.icekatze wrote:hi hi
FTL travel and sub-light travel are largely separate systems in the Outsider universe. Other than establishing the ship's real-space trajectory, the thrusters are not the same system that allows them to go faster than light. The mothership does need to have a bigger FTL drive than a ship of the same size without gunboats would.
Electronic warfare can blind sensors at close range for short periods of time, but it does not make cosmic detection difficult. Decoys don't work in deep space, because they don't accelerate with the same profile as the real target. Even in orbit, our current tech level on Earth can quickly detect and track every single rocket, stage, and piece of debris without difficulty. It may take some time to analyze what each object is when they are not accelerating, but the moment any piece of previously inert debris accelerates, it raises a very rapid response.
Launching gunboats does not protect the mothership from attack. You'll notice that the Umiak that launched the gunboats also charged at the Loroi lines. Unarmed supply vessels are prime targets for the faster Loroi raiders.
Engine, right Mothership easier. Accordingly, the total weight is less. A subsonic engine gunboats easier because it does not need to accelerate the FTL drive. Accordingly, the FTL drive is needed less powerful.
Jammers work until they energized. Will be needed to combat the interference during the day continuously - Jammers are working day and night continuously. What is now such space there - says only about our level of development. Decoy of medium-range torpedoes can develop acceleration of the ship within the hour. The battle lasted half an hour.
If a stock of fuel on board the gunboat comparable to the supply of fuel long-range torpedoes, and autonomous flight time in a dozen hours to run their mothership can hours before the fight, and at a distance of dozens of light-seconds. An hour before the fight, and at a distance of light-seconds, run long-range torpedoes. Converges closer to the target for the Umiak fleet needed only in special cases. For example, if you can not prevent the destruction of a valuable artifact in the battle, which is located near the enemy fleet.
Unarmed supply vessels in the zone of possible enemy attack carried out in protected convoys.
The result of attempts to fast raiders intercept the convoys - the sinking of the "Bismarck" and damaged "Tirpitz".