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On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 19:24:16 -0500, Mike Bruner
<bru...@delaware.infi.net> wrote:

>Christopher Reid wrote:

>>    Why should it be?  Confed didn't make them nor have them in stock.
>> They didn't have or produce the fighters designed to launch them.  Only
>> a limited supply were made of this terror weapon.  Torpedoes and other
>> heavy bombs do a great job of blowing stuff up already.  Why would the
>> Midway, of all ships, have Flash-Paks (even if Confed somehow decided to
>> use them), it didn't even have any really heavy craft.  And how do we
>> know Flash-Paks would even have any effect on the Nephilim?  We already
>> know they don't work against more advanced Confed ships.. and certainly
>> the Nephilim hulls are made out of different material/organic
>> material/advanced material that's at least as spiffy as the Vesuvius
>> hull that was invincible to Flash-Paks.  Erm, so, no.  It's perfectly
>> reasonable that we see no Flash-Paks in Prophecy.
>
>It is entirely possible that like the Dragon those few things worth
>expanding on were moved to other things; in the Dragon's case it's likely
>they took some of the developments and used them for designing fighters like
>the Vampire, and in the case of the Flashpack... who knows? Might be part of
>how they got the Plasma Gun to pierce shields, 

   Erm, the Flash-Pak and Plasma Gun's ability to pierce shields have
what in common now? :)

>or new torpedo design, or
>some other thing.

   Woohoo, now we can make torps 1/4th the strength of war-era torps!

> If memory serves, didn't the tracking disk we deployed for
>the Midway's super Bug Gun in WCP look like a Flashpack?

   So.. that means the Flash-Pak was a precursor to the targeting discs
for the sole reason that they were both disc-shaped?

> I personally figure
>the real reason we never see Black Lance technology in WCP is that the
>discoveries used to make it have merely been applied to non-Lance vehicles
>and weapons by then, and the original Black Lance stuff is obsolete.

Chris Reid                                            Wing Commander CIC
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