tlb wrote:penny wrote:The Silver Bullets have spider drives?
The thought of buying a system still shocks me. Who would a system be bought from? Who has the deed to Felix?
I do not have text after Mission of Honor, but clearly they had to have undetectable drives to detect and move close to the Mycroft platforms after they were dumped out of the freighter(s?).
As I understand it the system belongs to the company that surveyed it. The same as the rights to Manticore were purchased before the colony ship left to settle it.
The rights to Felix are in dispute.
Jonathan_S wrote:Actually it's in Uncompromising Honor. I think there's a biggest description of the Silver Bullet elsewhere in the book; but here's a quite quote that confirms that, yes, it has a spider driveUncompromising Honor wrote:Silver Bullet Q-12 was far larger than most people’s drones, larger even than one of the Royal Manticoran Navy’s Ghost Rider platforms. It was, however, at least as stealthy as Ghost Rider as it swept slowly along on its spider drive.
Well, it isn't just the Silver Bullets that break with the thing I thought was written in stone. I thought the Spider drive had to have a certain shape. The SBs are an elongated fat cigar. A bullet.
It also surprised me that it is/was too big to be tube launched by the LDs.
BTW, the SBs employed a trickle charge for the plasma capacitors. A trickle charging plasma capacitor sounds like an oxymoron to me.