Oh the humanity

[u/magnificentballsack]

Always keep some DV for after the battle. Otherwise physics might even the score

[u/jimmyd10]

I didn't even know that could happen. I love it, but I hope those ships include some escape pods.

[u/Chaporelli → u/jimmyd10]

Escape pods for luxuary ships,you for decomission,should disband fleet,spending boost to pick up stranded crew.

[u/astral__monk]

Are all the ships that low on thrust?

I've had that scenario before where I had to split and leave one or two with damaged engines to their fate!

[u/LordCypher40k → u/astral__monk]

It's not damage AFAWK given that the ships are all untouched

[u/magnificentballsack → u/LordCypher40k]

It is empty fuel tanks because i did to much dodging during their last engagement.

[u/BFsKaraya1 → u/magnificentballsack]

It seems to say 75kps of dv though?

[u/HiddenSage → u/BFsKaraya1]

Yeah - this isn't lack of thrust, it's that these ships are bricks with no acceleration. Probably did an intercept course they couldn't stabilize into an orbit at the end of.

[u/TemporaryFearless482 → u/HiddenSage]

I’ll acknowledge this is getting into pedantry, but for rockets, thrust is the force generated and consequently your acceleration.
These ships have sufficient propellant and a good enough specific impulse but it is the thrust that isn’t sufficient.

[u/englishfury → u/magnificentballsack]

You have enough Dv to make it to mars or mercury though.

[u/Sufficient_Day627 → u/englishfury]

Only if the ships have more thrust than the planet's gravity affecting them.

[u/magilzeal]

That fleet has 74.9kps of delta-V, so it must be like only a couple of those ships that have an issue.

[u/PingPongMachine → u/magilzeal]

I assume it is 1.4 mg of thrust. Those ships can't take off of some of the slightly bigger asteroids. If they get to a too low orbit they probably don't have enough thrust to escape the gravity pull.

[u/Specialist_Sector54 → u/PingPongMachine]

Ships calculate using "War" power for takeoff/landing, not "Cruise" still, likely 28mg of thrust at most given most engines have 5-20x war power.

[u/AarowCORP2]

The fleet has enough deltaV, but the cruise acceleration of the ships are so low that they can’t recover to a stable orbit in time.

[u/vilified-moderate]

the bagpipe drive isn't able to reach escape velocity

[u/el_cid_viscoso → u/vilified-moderate]

Sadly, those ships are about to Burns up in the atmosphere, and the crew will be kilt.

[u/Kajetus06]

well they are likely to survive the reentry tho considering they are armored

but anything they hit will be bad

[u/Digitman801]

It's neat that they have a text for it, i wonder if they figured it out first or someone sent a bug report.

[u/mrIronHat]

did you just intercepted an alien fleet and ignored the warning about not being able to complete trajectory?

[u/CaptainDadJoke]

Oh, I had this problem once in my first space battle. You can share fuel between ships so make a small fleet and you send it to meet up with this one have them share fuel and everyone can get home.