SWM wrote:Grashtel wrote:TheMonster wrote>>If you're going to displace the hyper drive from dead center, it makes sense to do so "downward" so that it creates a field covering your small craft moving in and out of the boat bay.<<
Why? Attempting to deploy small craft while transitioning into/out of hyper or between bands strikes me as an exceedingly bad idea (for the small craft at least) and when not doing so there is no need for them to be inside the hyper generator's field as its only needed for transitions.
I believe the idea was to put the hyperdrive there in new designs (along with extra space around them) so that when the streak drive was developed it would be easy to retrofit the drive into the space without cutting through armor.
Sure, the placement above the boat bay (were it's presumably easier to access for replacement) makes a certain degree of sense. (Displacing it off centerline makes it somewhat more vulnerable to battle damage, but probably not excessively so)
It was his further thought, that that would let it better cover small craft moving in and out, that really didn't make much sense.
For one thing, as Grashtel said, you shouldn't be conducting boat ops when entering hyper. For another if it can reach out 5+ km it hardly matters, in terms of reach, where it is within the roughly 200m height of an SD.