Posted by: Steve Walmsley
« on: December 03, 2023, 07:00:07 AM »
Energy weapons are limited to 1.5m km because that is how far light can travel in a 5 second increment. Otherwise, beam shots would have to be tracked over multiple increments. Also, given the speed of most ships, it would be impossible to hit at that range anyway.
Even the current fire control ranges are very generous. Consider that at 300,000 km, a target moving at 6000 km could be in anywhere in a sphere the size of the Earth by the time the shot arrives.