From:	ANGLISS BRIAN EDWARD <angliss@****.colorado.edu>
Subject:	Upon thinking....
Date:	Mon, 27 Nov 1995 11:48:38 -0700 (MST)

I was thinking about what I said about Maxim's fighters, and I've decided
to revise my comments, based on a couple of things.

First, it's highly unlikely that Maxim could be able to develop aerospace
fighters as they have without at least some experience with aircraft.
Sure, they could steal the tech from others, but they'd still have needed
some clue how to use it.

And second, I remembered that the F-B Eagle is a vectored thrust fighter
craft. Since Maxim's area of "expertise" is vectored thrust vehicles,
it's reasonable to assume that they developed their fighters first as V-T
aircraft and then went into aerospace planes.

I don't know if anyone will be interested in this, but I've been slowly
developing a list of what Maxim produces in my game world. As the tech
level in the world I GM is higher than here, I've only hinted
occasionally at the tech on the list. If people are interested, I can
probably get it uploaded via mail or here on Plot-D if you feel Maxim is
sufficiently important for the stuff to be general knowledge. It might
be helpful for people to know some of the stuff if they are doing runs on
Maxim, or for stuff like the Ares fighter destruction.

Brian