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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3143278" data-attributes="member: 710">Unless the ship contains a human passenger, in which case a ship's maximum safe acceleration is severely limited. The missile would also have the advantage of being smaller/having less mass(it only needs a warhead, engine and a tracking system, while a ship or drone would probably need additional systems - like a missile launcher for combat, life support for a crew, storage facilities for freight, data storage, sensor system, possibly atmospheric landing equipment and so on). Which is probably an argument for drone combat, since these can be highly specialised for their task. Any non-drones will need drones to defend themselves. Ships accelerating to near-light speeds doesn't mean they do it fast - if it takes 5 years to reach Alpha Centauri 2 years of acceleration and 2 years of acceleration seems relatively acceptable. Which would mean that space combat wouldn't need to take place at such high speeds...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 3143278, member: 710"] Unless the ship contains a human passenger, in which case a ship's maximum safe acceleration is severely limited. The missile would also have the advantage of being smaller/having less mass(it only needs a warhead, engine and a tracking system, while a ship or drone would probably need additional systems - like a missile launcher for combat, life support for a crew, storage facilities for freight, data storage, sensor system, possibly atmospheric landing equipment and so on). Which is probably an argument for drone combat, since these can be highly specialised for their task. Any non-drones will need drones to defend themselves. Ships accelerating to near-light speeds doesn't mean they do it fast - if it takes 5 years to reach Alpha Centauri 2 years of acceleration and 2 years of acceleration seems relatively acceptable. Which would mean that space combat wouldn't need to take place at such high speeds... [/QUOTE]

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