Exploring Efficient Weapons in Sci-Fi Settings

[trurle]

Recon part: with advanced recon probes, you can pretty much decrease the beam scattering problem.

Sensor picket methodology. Well, it is not a very efficient protection. Because volley aimed at main ship can take out sensor pickets too. And pickets itself to be efficient must be outside of point defense range of mothership, therefore vulnerable to wider range of threats.

 

[essenmein]

With regard to the sensor topic and ships reaching relativistic speeds to be able to launch piles of rocks at people. If you can fly at those velocities, you'd better hope you have good sensor tech, because a stationary rock/rubble shield would be just as effective against you as the weapon you plan on wielding.