kzt wrote:batron352 wrote:So you're sitting in orbit, your wedges off. How long does it take to power up a wedge from cold/off state?
Instantly per the initial scene in OBS.
Fearless didn't power up from a cold/off state in either the ambush scenario with the weapon that shall not be named or in the pursuit sequence from Medusa. Neither did Sirius or the Peep dispatch boat. Remember how Honor destroyed its nodes. I don't have the exact numbers in front of me at the moment, but I believe I've provided the time to go from a cold start to wedge fully up (and the stages which are passed through along the way) in at least one past post. Wedges can be covered by stealth while at the lower initiation stages and held at readiness/standby levels with an excellent chance (but not a certainty) of concealing them under stealth, and that was the situation vis-à-vis the King Roger. When the text says the wedge "snapped up" (or however I phrased it; I don't have the book in front of me at the moment, either) it means that it switched suddenly from readiness to full maneuvering power, not that it came up from cold nodes. For that matter, the weapon which shall not be named couldn't have been used from a "cold nodes" status since what it actually does is to use a ship's own wedge to knock down the target's sidewall. The firing ship needs to be at at least standby status to make it work at all.