Re: [LoGH] Babylon 5 vs Galactic Empire
Hank Wong (hankwong@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU)
Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:35:20 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Wayne H Yin wrote:
> either the FPA fleet can distinguish at least the capital warships from
> visual only, or FPA intelligence has cracked imperial IFF codes and can
> read the imperial fleet's own electronic tracking signatures similar to
> what the air traffic controllers use to identify planes. (or military air
> intercept controllers use to identify friendly/foe (IFF) aircraft on their
> radar.)
> or, they simply have a really thick copy of jane's space-warships guide
> on the bridge. ;)
Considering the number of ships in both fleets, that'd be a library, not a
book =P
I think the Imperials can do this too. I'm pretty sure I saw it in episode
43. Though for the Imperials, it's probably easier because Alliance
vessels have hull numbers.
-Hank
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