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No unfortunately (or not that I've noticed), though you drop out of stealth if you open fire or use your afterburners. It would be cool if you came out of steal
by maxbond 3y ago
No unfortunately (or not that I've noticed), though you drop out of stealth if you open fire or use your afterburners. It would be cool if you came out of stealth at half power; that would make it pretty costly, since power and power regen are the stats that dictate how long you can sustain your weapons in a firefight (missiles not withstanding).
That's very cool re: The Expanse. Alastair Reynolds, an astronomer turned sci-fi author, explores "weaponized astronomy" a lot in his books, especially the opening chapters of "Inhibitor Phase". Without too many spoilers, there's a ship that cools it's hull close to absolute zero and uses cryogenic gasses for thrust in order to maneuver, so that it isn't radiating IR. And they have to time their operations so that they aren't seen occluding the sun.
- EdwardDiego 3y agoOh, I definitely need to read those books, cheers!
- maxbond 3y agoThe Revelation Space series does start slow, he was a junior writer for the first part and he's, but I enjoy it a lot.
- KineticLensman 3y agoAnother author who explores stealth in space combat is Greg Bear in 'Anvil of Stars' (the successor to 'Forge of God'). This is nothing like The Expanse, instead the galaxy is a hostile jungle full of predators just waiting for a young techno civilisation (like humanity) to naïvely broadcast its presence.
- b112 3y agoJack Campbell's "The Lost Fleet" starts with Dauntless, and is reasonably good at considering light speed issues in combat, tactics, and moving fleets of ships at low fractions of the speed of light, eg .1c Also a good space opera, as well.
- vulcan01 3y agoHowever, if I remember correctly, stealth in particular is not really considered and is dismissed as impossible. Campbell does a good job of demonstrating tactics to hide ships, though.