On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 11:11 PM Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
You are *exactly* right & that's why *any* ship can jump with very little fuel.
Usually it's because an enormous expenditure of fuel is required to charge the capacitors but, in the case of b-globe equipped ships or ships w/ 'collectors', like the 'Annic Nova', the capacitors are or can be charged by alternative methods.


That's why I've always thought that the large store of black globe generators that were discovered intact had survived the Final War not because they were a store of powerful defensive shields but because they were just an incidental stockpile of spare "carburetors." 


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