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I like how this closely jibes w/ the 'Age of Sail' upon which the TU was originally modelled.
My only caveat would be that I believe that the IN would use their J6 Fleet Couriers instead of J2 Scout/Couriers.
It'd just be so much more efficient. Not to mention convenient.

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On Fri, 2/12/16, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Instant city
 To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Friday, February 12, 2016, 7:06 PM

 > On
 Feb 12, 2016, at 6:39 PM, William Ewing (via tml list)
 <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 wrote:
 >
 > The USS
 Indianapolis dropped off the a-bomb, and left for it's
 classified next port. Noone knew her schedule, noone tracked
 her. So when she was sunk, noone knew to look for her.
 Because of that, we now have to file movement reports. We
 list all waypoints of each transit, and the scheduled
 arrivals at each. If we are more than 4 hours ahead of or
 behind our Plan of Intended Movement, then we have to send a
 new MOVREP. That narrows a missing ship down to an 8-hour
 window at PIM-speed (typically 15 knots or less, so within
 60 nautical miles of where we should have been, if 15 is
 PIM-speed.

 The Imperium
 CANNOT DO THIS. The most recent information the IN can
 possibly have of a ship that is not in a particular system
 is 7 days old. That increases by 7 days for every two
 parsecs (presuming the use of J2 Scouts/Couriers for comms)
 farther away the ship is. And they cannot get something
 *back* to where the ship was supposed to be except in the
 same time.

 The existence of
 jump lag prevents this kind of close command and control; HQ
 might be *months* behind the front lines.

 The absolute worst case of a
 misjump is 36 parsecs, which is 107 days away from where a
 ship is supposed to be at J2.

 That’s roughly 4 months.

 The IN operates like Admiral Nelson’s Navy,
 not Admiral Halsey’s.
 --
 Bruce Johnson
 University of
 Arizona
 College of Pharmacy
 Information Technology Group

 Institutions do not have
 opinions, merely customs

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