On 6/24/2020 7:36 PM, Rupert Boleyn wrote: > Gah. What a mess. Yyyyup. My take on that is that someone thought that a ship with a black globe being able to soak up hits and then jump out with that stored energy was Cool(tm), and then someone(s) else looked at that and realized it opened the door for "battle rider"-style starships being charged up by tanker-tenders rigged to fast-disconnect their cables while one or both move to minimum-safe-distance. -- --------------- Kelly St. Clair xxxxxx@efn.org