On 30Jun2020 1324, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml list) wrote: > Sticking to a requirement that a ship, which has it's capacitors > charged, has to have onboard an amount of fuel that *would* have been > used up if the capacitors had nor been charged, is just plain silly. > > Why would a ship which, under normal circumstances, would have pretty > much emptied its tanks anyway not be able to jump with the same tanks > empty? > > Nope, the rule simply means that there must be 'sufficient fuel' > present to power the power plant. > > Which might not be that case if there had been been battle damage. > > Black Globe charging is thus the same as using d-tanks. > It provides a way to initiate a jump regardless of whether or not > enough fuel for that jump is present. > > Now if the LBB had said "enough fuel is present for that jump" it > would be a different story, but that is not the case. So why do ships with Black Globes need jump fuel at all? -- Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
