Federation Commander

[Targ]

With out knowing the mass of def sats and bases how can it be said that a base could not hold a DS in orbit I presume a base would be in the range of at lest several thousands of tonnes and the DS at most a few hundred Kg. If some one can gives me the numbers I’ll happily work it out. I think most of us agree that we don’t want to see mines in FC but the lack of them dose weaken a bases comparable (with SFB) strength. It seem like an easy fix for this problem (famous last words ), also as I said in my original post I was looking at the idea from a campaign angle. I used the mine analogy loosely. I don’t see, if a case warrants it, why on these smaller points the SFB rules have to be slavishly followed; it’s a different system with different demands.

[Steve Cole]

Petrick has ruled: Defsats must orbit a planet or moon and cannot be added to a base. This is an SFB rule which applies to FC.
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[Hod K'el]

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[terryoc]

That's true but the planet will block arcs of fire. In the case of a base orbiting a planet, defsats will help cover the base's "blind spot" so that attacking ships can't hide in it as easily. At least until the defsats are dead.
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