[Diaspora] Campaign Writeup: ship combat

[Brad Murray]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Undead Trout <undead.trout at gmail.com> wrote:

> Question: why not use the appropriate real-world term... delta vee...
> instead of the potentially confusing made-up term V-shift?
>

Partially because we didn't want to precisely echo modern terminology
everwhere as it distracts from the sense of removal from Earth. That's the
bullshit answer.

The real answer is that it made for two Ds (Data and Delta-v) on the ship
sheet when abbreviating. I suppse we could have used a real ∆.

-- 
Brad Murray (halfjack)
VSCA Publishing
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