Reconnaissance Idea

Hi, I'm new here.<br />  Like I assume many of you, I have played, or at least looked into, a multitude of game systems. I picked up a new game that was good in concept, but had some problems that I emailed the designer about. I'm not sure how this site feels about plugging other work, so I will just sum up the concept with; &quot;Humanity has no idea who is trying to exterminate them.&quot; I wound like to see what you all think about one Idea that might be applicable to Star Frontiers.<br /><br /><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> <font color="#3366ff"> Another problem is with military action. Military operations are depicted as “Reconnaissance in Force.” Send as much force as you can, and hope it’s enough. No one does a proper recon. The manuscript does state that ships were sent to systems, and never returned, but even they did it wrong. The proper way to recon a potentially hostile system is to position a vessel with a powerful telescope, (manned, or otherwise,) anywhere from one light year, to twenty light “months” off either the north, or south pole of the system, and have it sit there for a few months. Unless the enemy has forces in that area that could react, it would take them about a year for them to notice the recon ship. By then the vessel would be long gone. If it is believed that the enemy is expecting this, the position should be changed to anywhere from thirty, to sixty degrease off the pole, at any point around the system. </font></font></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#3366ff"><span>  </span>What could be seen at this range? Plenty. The pole regions would have the clearest view, that’s where the ort cloud is the thinnest, but the other areas would also get good shots. Yes, the information would be a year old, but the orbits of planetary bodies would not change. Permanent bases would not sprout up over night. </font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#3366ff"><span>  </span>To describe the clarity of the view, I can only use a photo of Betelgeuse I saw several decades ago as an example. This photo showed variations in the surface temperature of the star. It was taken by an earth bound observatory, long before Hubble was even funded, (please, no cracks about how hard Stonehenge was to use.) If such a photo taken back then could have that much information, then sensors far more advanced, at a much shorter distance could show much more. <br /><br /></font>  The FTL system used in this game system is warp, wile Star Frontiers uses jump. Navegation would be slightly more tricky, but still plasable. So what do you think? </font></font></p>