Posted by: Steve Walmsley
« on: November 06, 2011, 04:32:00 AM »The main drawback that I've found to minefield buoys is the limited reactor lifetime. It would be nice if mines deployed sufficiently close to a star... say, within the Hyperlimit... could be solar-powered by dedicating some of the MSP to solar panels.
This will probably happen in Newtonian Aurora at some point. Missiles, buoys and drones are all combined into one design process that covers all three. Sensors require power (on missiles and ships) and that power source can be either a reactor or solar panels. Reactor lives will be in the timeframe of decades, if I even bother with a time limit.
Steve