message 0136

• The technology levels of the different races
• Time compression for warship crews, example Yeager
• Does Union use Carriers/Riders?
• Comparison between normal and Azi ship crews/abilities of Azi in general
• Acceleration and maneuvering in space

>From: Onno Meyer <Onno.Meyer@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
>Subject: cherryhlist
>Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 16:17:19 +0200 (MET DST)

> >Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 19:45:04 -0500
> >From: "Phil G. Fraering" <pgf@srl.cacs.usl.edu>
> >Subject: cherryhlist
> 
[...]
> 
> 2. It seems to take a lot more training to operate an ECS carrier
> smoothly than you could probably get from Azi (except for the really
> specialized ones, which you don't have that many of).
> 
[...]
> 
> 4. Noone mentions riderships on Union vessels. Multi-ship operations
> seem to be inherently harder than large single vessels. A comparison would
> be between the Enterprise (i.e. the aircraft carrier) and a modern
> destroyer. Sure the destroyer's newer, but from an operations standpoint
> the Enterprise represents something much harder to operate, and ultimately
> much more powerful.

 From _DS_:
p.133 ... Back from Unionside. Carriers orbiting at Viking, four,
	  maybe more. ...
p.250 ... Union carrier _Unity_ ...
p.275 ... at the cost of one of _Tibet's_ riders ... at the cost of
	  one of Union's ...

The Union definitely uses riderships. Further more, somebody said in
_HB_ something like "We'll see the first carrier/rider teams in six
months. We would prefer our teams to be the first ones." (this is from
memory).

p.171 ... They had one advantage over Union's sleek, new ships, the
	  fine equipment, the unscarred young crews, tape-trained,
	  deepthaught with all the answers. The Fleet had experience,
	  could move their patched ships with a precision Union's
	  fine equipment had not yet matched, with nerve Union               
	  conservativism and adherence to the book discouraged in
	  it's captains. ...

I would say that (a) the Fleet crews are better and (b) they are
taking risks no sane man would take. Union has won the war at the
time of _DS_. Their captains will be reluctant to risk their crews
and ships with crazy stunts that could kill them even before they
engage the Fleet. The Fleet captains know they have lost the war
(at least the top two know) and it doesn't really matter wether 
they die now or later.
> Phil
Onno
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> >Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 10:58:17 CDT
> >From: mills@centurylub.com
> >Subject: RE: C. J. Cherryh List
> 
[...]
> would be different for every 'flight' and for every vessel. (Would 
> cumulative time spent at partial C velocities not be a factor also ?)
>      Steve
I think not. I never got that far in physics, but from the formulas
only prolonged flight at .75 c or shorter times at much higher speeds    
should be a factor.

Next question: How does a carrier reach these velocities? At the end
of _DS_, _Norway_ accelerates to a significant percentage of light-
speed, decelerates, turns around and comes back at high speed without
crushing the crew or using jumpdrive?
	Onno