Comments on: Chapter 08, Part Seven: Ready rockets!

By: ArleyinSD

ArleyinSD — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 04:22:36 +0000

Looking at Han’s moustache, I believe it’s a very long thin ‘stache that has been waxed back along his face and somehow the tips are stuck/pinned near his ears. Seems to be a very high-falutin’ style.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:30:18 +0000

I admittedly don’t know nearly enough about this as I should, but yes, the idea is that it’s a two-fuse rocket. I don’t imagine the technology has been developed for reliable detonation-on-impact (other than hoping the ignition system, on impact, ignites the payload), but rather more like torpedos, in that they launch, then later detonate at range.

Hence the alarm on the pilot’s face, I shouldn’t think.

By: Richardg

Richardg — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:41:53 +0000

I would expect the rockets to have some sort of timer fuse. That would make them more like flak rockets. They explode when the time/range was reached. That way you can convert a miss into a hit.

Although the point about sometimes they don’t launch would argue against a timer.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:46:56 +0000

Our take is that the rockets themselves… are an “unreliable technology.”

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 05:42:29 +0000

Since Lady Sabre’s the title character, I don’t expect Greg and Rick to let her and her crew get turned to toast. Yet I’m still crossing my fingers hoping she has some sneaky steampunky anti-ballistic anti-aircraft hidden SOMEWHERE on her ship.