Posted by: Gamer Whale
Posted by: Chester Duncan
Posted by: Gamer Whale
Posted by: Chester Duncan
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
I remember something about they could be equipped with a slipspace drive too.
But either way, they are designed as fighter-bombers/interceptors. They are big for more firepower.
While the Saber is smaller, it's not good against things besides fighters. I really don't see the point in having a slipdrive in a longsword.
Scouting nearby stuff, and not having to deploy them at the beginning of a battle, or wait for them after it, which could be fatal to the cruiser/carrier. But slipdrives are not cheap and can't be fixed easily like a cars engine, and even if all that were true, it would take months to get anywhere and thats a bigger ship. Not to mention that short jumps don't work with the UNSC. If you try to travel 1,000 km, you could be 4 million km off target.It would not take months to get anywhere... It was 2 months from Reach to Harvest IIRC. And who said it would be short jumps? Besides, what's a "short" jump? Half a day should be long enough... Ok I'll give you that. But its like I said you can be off for million of km. Thats the whole reason why in the books, you read about the UNSC statying in normal space and taking an hour to get somewhere and not get jumping into slip for three seasonds. Also as I said, slipdrives are not cheap and easy to repair so whats the point in sticking them in a longsword. Also the whole recon thing doesn't work, since thats the reason the Prolwer corps is around.