Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing)
Tim 25 Jun 2015 07:00 UTC
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 05:38:05AM +0000, William Ewing (via tml list) wrote:
> More likely approximate. Radar and other tech is only going to get
> so good.
There's no need for radar. Coming out of jump space (in multiple
rulesets) produces a bright EM "flash" across a broad range of
wavelengths. If a sensor system can't get a bearing on that to within
at most a square arcsecond, it's not worth the cardboard it was made
from.
Given at least one ruleset, the jump flash is visible *without
instruments* at a million kilometres, which is roughly 100D range for
terrestrial planets
- Tim