![]() We are lazy: Perhaps these things require very basic fundamental theories that we (21st century earth) somehow have just overlooked but are actually pretty easy to build and maintain. So a return to old battle tactics is because we just can't do any better. Maybe we are even scavenging ships we can barely keep running, much less build new. Sure, we know how to make (or we have some machines that can make for us) FTL engines and anti-grav generators but we don't have basic circuit boards. Fall from grace: What folks have NOW is just a fraction of what we used to have. Any society that has anti-gravity and ultra cheap FTL ought to have advanced electronics and computational capability. These are conflicting technological stipulations. So you have to get close with a human in order to aim and fire, so no drones, A.I. driven counter-battery fire/CIWS to swat those fighters out of space. No seeking warheads (or they are very limited), computer based aiming systems, or A.I. Like, can see them outside a viewport close.Ĥ) Poor electronic targeting: The best sensor is the old Mark I eyeball. So to have any chance at hitting anything you have to get close, REAL close. Plus they probably fizzle out pretty quickly. Your engines produce a lot of thrust with no need for fuel, so they can zip around space with ease and dip into gravity wells to land without concern.ģ) Slower than light weaponry: Phasers, blasters, photon torpedoes, etc are all slower than light weapons. Where is the fuel!?! Sure, there are big engines and sometimes even a power plant, but there is all the reaction mass? Doesn't exist! So you can have space ships with way more interior space devoted to crew rather than vast amounts of re-mass tanks. ![]() This is so accepted in media that you really don't need to do anything to explain it.Ģ) No fuel engines: Look at almost every space ship. Ocean ship layouts on space ships can't work without anti-gravity to allow for 1 gee floors perpendicular to the thrust produced by the engines. Plus it is hella cool :)īut, if you want to set up your world to force this type of combat, there are a few technological conditions you will want to meet:ġ) Anti-gravity: This is the fundamental technology. It just is, and most readers accept it because it fits what they have seen in print and on screen for decades. You don't actually need to justify anything, MANY settings have what you describe with no justification, explanation, or rationalization.
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