An explosion of the warship would be far greater than the collective explosions (?) Of the missiles, which would hit nothing.
In any case, lack of debris would suggest a jump.
Cheers
Greg
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:53 AM, <tmr0195@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi again Jeffery Schwartz,
>
> Yes, jumping with battle damage could cause a miss jump, but with my luck
> the die roll for an undamaged ship would result in a miss jump.;-)
>
> While I recall reading about being able to jump with a force field
> generator, aka Black globe, I do not feel that this is possible since the
> black globe supposedly absorbs all types of energy. Not to mention that, per
> CT LBB 5 1980, that the absorbed energy can be stored in the jump drive's
> capacitors.
>
> Tom R
>
Right, but I'm kinda storyboarding this.
The Tigress is jumping because the caps are fully charged, and she's
going to blow if she doesn't...
so they drop the globe and jump.
Right as the ship jumps, the next wave of missiles come in on where
the Tigress _was_, and detonate
(You're going to want the missiles to detonate before hitting the
black globe, so it's the nuke energy hitting it rather than just KE of
the missile)
If the timing was right, and outside observer might have trouble
telling if the Tigress jumped, or exploded.
Especially if the last messages sent during globe flicker were "We're
in trouble, caps at 90%"
If the Navy thinks the Tigress exploded, then there isn't going to be
a search for it.
It'll just be listed as "lost in combat"
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