Re: The Beholder Imperium-- Ships and Technology of Beholderspace

Just found this piece of mail in my 'holding pit' of postponed messages.
Sorry it's kinda off the current topic.

> Anyway I need some ideas for weaknesses that are somewhat logical to destroy
> these monstrous ships.  Obviously a straight on fight is probably not going
> to work unless it was  VERY large scale assualt.  A fleet battle would be
> nothing less than a planetary invasion.

Well, these things should be about as maneuverable as a wingless airplane.
Have your entire opposing force target the weapons on one approach angle,
and once they've destroyed those weapons, just do one attack run after
another until the ship is destroyed.  You'd lose a ship or two to enemy
fire while targetting the weapons (which of course leaves the battered
ship as an unguided missile headed straight for the planet-killer!), but
after the weapons are taken out you have a straight shot.  I would think
that these planet-killers would get absolutely BUTCHERED once their
support fleets are gone.
>
>                 The drive needs to derive tremendous powers t boost the
> magical energies of the Helm.  It might be based on spheres of Annihilation
> and power drawn from it somehow. (I always thought of this thing as a
> magically shielded mini-blackhole)  Another obvious drive would to be use a
> positive/negative material drive electrical or explosive?
>
>
>
>     Question:  The beholders possess a technology that is powered by magic
> and by their own innate powers.  If we (humans) could invent a computer in
> 1500 ad out of machine parts (A kinetic Computer proven to function from
> drawings sometime in the last coupla years)  Would the beholders be capable
> or interested in inventing a computer... Hmm, maybe an organic computer with
> orbi as its parts?
>
>    What do you think?

What I think is that you should be playing Star Frontiers or Renegade
Legion Leviathan and/or Interceptor.