B009nfp2ow Ebok
“Sixteen ships flew in formation with her, including the provisioning vessel Shenandoah, which now had a vital role to play at 70 Ophiuchi.
Gray studied the readouts for the system. Little was known about the strength or deportment of Sh’daar ships around Osiris. The translations of Slan audio data suggested fifty to sixty ships, as the intelligence officer on board Inchon had pointed out, but it was unknown how many of those might be warships, and how many were transports. Dating the inform...ation was problematical as well; the Slan means of determining date and time were still a mystery, and the Osiris imagery might well be out of date.
What Gray was counting on was the sheer difficulty in targeting incoming ships moving at near-c. Even for technologically advanced cultures like the Sh’daar and their clients, tracking incoming targets that were only scant seconds behind the light revealing their presence was a monumental task, requiring high-precision optical systems, tremendous computing power, and a great deal of luck.MoreLess
Gray studied the readouts for the system. Little was known about the strength or deportment of Sh’daar ships around Osiris. The translations of Slan audio data suggested fifty to sixty ships, as the intelligence officer on board Inchon had pointed out, but it was unknown how many of those might be warships, and how many were transports. Dating the inform...ation was problematical as well; the Slan means of determining date and time were still a mystery, and the Osiris imagery might well be out of date.
What Gray was counting on was the sheer difficulty in targeting incoming ships moving at near-c. Even for technologically advanced cultures like the Sh’daar and their clients, tracking incoming targets that were only scant seconds behind the light revealing their presence was a monumental task, requiring high-precision optical systems, tremendous computing power, and a great deal of luck.MoreLess
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