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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8722794" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Well, look at JWST, it has a 'cold side' and a 'hot side'. So, a hot radiator located in a parabolic dish on the 'hot side' of your spacecraft can dump heat in a direction that HOPEFULLY doesn't contain any hostile sensors (guess what the other side wants to do). A maser or something might work, obviously what you can do is going to rely on tech speculation. Traveller already assumes some rather fanciful advances, so how you deal with that seems open to speculation. This is also ANOTHER reason you would probably like to put your 'hot stuff', like powerful active sensors, somewhere else besides stuck to the hull of your spacecraft. </p><p></p><p>Of course, even if you cannot mask your thermal signature well enough to sneak around, there's still 'emissions warfare', you can instead have THOUSANDS of contacts filling the enemy's screens, which do they shoot their 10 missiles at? And given the almost limitless range of comms in space, including things like tight collimation lasers that can't be detected or blocked, I would think that spreading your 'stuff' out hither and yon would make a lot of sense. For instance, if you know you are going into a fight, or suspect it, just pitch all your missiles out the hatch and let them float there until you have targets, then tell them to attack. That might not ALWAYS be possible or optimum, but it seems like these sorts of tactics would be pretty common (and you can imagine that a fixed location's anti-missile defenses would be of exactly this character).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8722794, member: 82106"] Well, look at JWST, it has a 'cold side' and a 'hot side'. So, a hot radiator located in a parabolic dish on the 'hot side' of your spacecraft can dump heat in a direction that HOPEFULLY doesn't contain any hostile sensors (guess what the other side wants to do). A maser or something might work, obviously what you can do is going to rely on tech speculation. Traveller already assumes some rather fanciful advances, so how you deal with that seems open to speculation. This is also ANOTHER reason you would probably like to put your 'hot stuff', like powerful active sensors, somewhere else besides stuck to the hull of your spacecraft. Of course, even if you cannot mask your thermal signature well enough to sneak around, there's still 'emissions warfare', you can instead have THOUSANDS of contacts filling the enemy's screens, which do they shoot their 10 missiles at? And given the almost limitless range of comms in space, including things like tight collimation lasers that can't be detected or blocked, I would think that spreading your 'stuff' out hither and yon would make a lot of sense. For instance, if you know you are going into a fight, or suspect it, just pitch all your missiles out the hatch and let them float there until you have targets, then tell them to attack. That might not ALWAYS be possible or optimum, but it seems like these sorts of tactics would be pretty common (and you can imagine that a fixed location's anti-missile defenses would be of exactly this character). [/QUOTE]
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