Long Range Scaners

[Kamog]

What I wonder about is, how can you see the design of an enemy ship, even without sensors, just by going into battle? You find out what all the components make up the enemy design, even if your ship was instantly obliterated in the battle, and even if they have a scanner jammer. In my opinion, I feel that simply being in a battle shouldn't reveal the detailed enemy design if you lose the battle and if their scanner jammer / scattering armor wasn't damaged.

[oleg]

Probably because battles occur at much closer distance. 1 sector is already an interplanetary distance. Like from Earth to Mars. Battles on the other hand, scaled to something like between Earth and Moon. No wonder you can get better readings, scattering armor or not ! As to receiving designs when you lose, why should it matter ? Your ships send continiuos telemetry back to HW by (subspace?)radio or laser. You don't really need hardcopies

[narf poit chez BOOM]

how could you scan something enough to know what every component on it is and still have ecm affect your targetting?

[Kamog]

The other thing is, how can you see the descriptions of components that you haven't researched yourself yet? For example, if you haven't researched quantum reactors yet and you scan one on an enemy ship, why would you know what it does?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

maybe you can recognize it from theory's?

i mean, some of those pre-industrial brainiacs might have been able to figure out the basics of a steam engine just from looking at it.

[oleg]

Description ? Do you really think all ET races use the same descriptions for Quantum Reactors ?

[oleg]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
how could you scan something enough to know what every component on it is and still have ecm affect your targetting?

I see no problems here. Even if you know the exact specifications, even in advance, of for example, F-18 that does not mean you will hit with every surface-to-air missile.