[Diaspora] Campaign Writeup: ship combat

[Lon Sarver]

And here I thought it was an intentional combination of the real-world “delta-v” and the game-mechanical “shifts.”

 

From: diaspora-bounces at phreeow.net [mailto:diaspora-bounces at phreeow.net] On Behalf Of Brad Murray
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Subject: Re: [Diaspora] Campaign Writeup: ship combat

 

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 ∆.


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Brad Murray (halfjack)
VSCA Publishing

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