Insofar as I can tell it says no such thing.President Sharky wrote: Blackman's infamous, (paraphrase)"firing the volcano cannon (located at the front) propels the coralskipper forward", should be enough to prove that he has no functioning brain. Since when does shooting something at the bow of a ship propel the thing forward!??
"When the Yuuzhan Vong pilot fires on an enemy, a small appendage on the front of the vehicle releases a flaming, molten rock. When this mass strirkes a spacecraft, it can burn through the armor plating and cause irreparable damage. The same mechanism propels the starfighter, as the opposing force of the magma release pushes the vehicle through space."
What he is describing is that (basically) the ship is propelled through space by a sort of "reaction drive" effect. (Indeed the schematics note a propulsive appendage in the rear - perhaps it can double as a rear-facing gun in some cases. The quote also implies that the ship decelerates itself by firing its forward guns, which is not unreasonable either in the slightest.) Frankly, a reaction drive is FAR more plausible than the techno-wank "gravity drive" mechanism of the Dovin Basal as described most often (what the fuck is the gravity pulling/pushing against, anyhow?) .
Additionally, it implies that a the recoil of a maximum-power shot should be comparable to the vessel being accelerated by several thousand gees (thereby giving us an idea of the weapon's power output, incidentally.) The listed acceleration is IIRC 3700 gees, and assuming the vessel masses roughly 20 tons, should imparrt roughly 7.4e8 kg*m/s worth of momtentum. Assuming a projectile of about 2 kilograms (which was mentioned IIRC, in the beginning of the Allston NJO novel "Rebel Dream") , the projectile would move at nearly eighty percent of the speed of light (more specifically, about .78c) and yield a little over 1e17 joules of kinetic energy on impact (nearly 24 megatons)
Of course, if you want to think that a "gravity drive" is more plausible than a reaction drive, be my guest
Yes, but that has no real bearing on acceleration. Given sufficient time any ship can reach near-c, (and such a speed is BLATANTLY impossible and impractical insofar as atmospheric travel is concerned.)Star by Star mentions at numerous times that the fighters and capital ships can travel at near-light speeds while traveling outside of hyperspace.
No worse than anything Stackpole did with the X-wing novels (or Allston for that matter, where the "Wraith squadron" books are concerned. IMHO Stackpole did much worse damage prior to the AOTC ICS by implying starfighter lasers were KILOJOULE range (and that a truck moving at 60 km/hr could down full-power X-wing shields.)This dickweed checks out video games stats and decides to copy and paste from them and the previous guide, making a whole bunch of new mistakes and contradicting hier-tier canon material, like the fucking movies and books.
Actually, I'm not expecting anything particularily worse than what already is in the EU - Blackman seems to have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo where some of the already-known details are concerned (such as keeping on the old WEG atmospheric speed values even though the ICS shows much higher speeds). Insofar as blasters or other weapons goes, he'll probably draw on other existing definitions (which do include the "real laser" definition - Allston and Walter John Williams both seemed to have that in mind - but it might also borrow from the David West Reynolds "plasma" definition.)This guide is already guaranteed to be a total piece of shit. Anyone who thinks otherwise is welcome to do so, but you will be extremely dissapointed when you learn that turbolasers are actually lasers (or something of the like), and that blasters have ranges of <100 meters.
The worst part of the EGV&V was that some of the acceleration values where hideously off (the Executor's for one was off by at least two or three times.) but the book actually had very little of quantitative interest, despite its attempt to emulate the ICS (partly because of all the data they trried to cram in - that results in much less detail per page/vessel. And most of those were fighters.)
