You issue cell phones to the crew or electric shavers. I'd bet both would fuck over Federation transporters.Darth Garden Gnome wrote:Or a transprter inhibitor. Or super-dense armor. Or an electrical storm. Or funny ore in the nearby hills. Or....SWPIGWANG wrote:doesn't matter, they just lock on with the transporter beam to the enemy and what scrambed ass that comes out doen't matter anyway.
Unless you block the beams, which I think need shields.
Boarding tactics in ST make no sense...
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You could stop transporter boarding actions cold with any of a number of natural materials, such as the "kelvanite ore" in the hills of the Ba'ku homeworld, solid duranium (although that would presumably be heavy), and probably a few other materials mentioned throughout the series run. No active systems such as transport jammers would be required, and it would fine even if the ship is damaged, powerless, and shieldless.
Just leave holes around the transporter rooms so you can still use your own, and you can limit transporter boarding actions to specific, easily-defended chokepoints.
Mind you, this would involve common sense, which (as has been stated repeatedly) the Feds simply don't have.
Just leave holes around the transporter rooms so you can still use your own, and you can limit transporter boarding actions to specific, easily-defended chokepoints.
Mind you, this would involve common sense, which (as has been stated repeatedly) the Feds simply don't have.
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Why leave holes around the transporter rooms? Presumably these transporters need an antenna or some sort of emitter array, just shield the whole ship with whatever method you prefer and hardwire the emitters through tiny openings in the hull...and we'll have none of that wireless crap here!
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You obviously missed the bit about the assault craft for use in such a situation.HemlockGrey wrote:0%. All the enemy has to do is have a working net of transport inhibitors built into the hip.What do you think of the likely success rate of UFP boarding actions if conducted according to the rules laid down above?
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