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  1. DailyFrankPeter there is no stealth in space so you'll always announce where you are.
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  2. BaseDeltaZero The problem is that if we're talking about technology advanced enough to have spaceship combat, a spaceship scanner would probably have enough computing power to complete a full 360º scan in just a few hours, maybe even minutes - computers can look at everywhere at once. In space, a few hours isn't enough to get away. If you detect something in your scan, you point your sensors in the general direction and take an iterative approach. You scan a smaller portion of space every time to get an updated position. The limiting aspect is resolution, and thus the range of the optical scan. But we'd need lightspeed weapons to hit, therefore lasers, therefore the range is how far we can collimate a laser beam without it losing effectiveness. So, a scan won't necessarily be pixel hunting as the spaceship will be within a few astronomic units, or whatever how far we can shoot a laser without it losing too much power.
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  3. Gavin Jenkins >"merely dodging them with random movements is very effective" The problem is that by virtue of travelling at light speed, you can't possibly know a laser is coming at you until you've been hit.
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  4. BaseDeltaZero >"it's already leaving with an hour's head start" At what, 2% lightspeed? You know which portion of the "sky" to scan so every scan you perform takes less time than the previous. >"If you have two ships battling in orbit" How would they even get close to orbit without getting detected and destroyed? Unless both ships warped right into opposite ends of a planet, the combat would start as soon as the furthest firing weapon was in range. >"The problem is that there are potentially a lot of 'somethings' that aren't actually relevant. So you'll end up having to scan everything." The Green Bank telescope could, in 2013, spot the Voyager 1 against the background in a second flat despite of the fact that it was 18 billion km away from Earth. That's current technology. If we're talking about battleships in space we're talking about a universe where sensors and computing power will make it even easier. >"Also, again, the system in question is for a spacesuit in boarding actions, not a spaceship" Make it the scale you want, there's no stealth in space. That's all I'm saying.
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