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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
Have you read ack Campbell's Lost Fleet series? I'm not a big space opera fan, but I really enjoyed the battle scenes in the first few of the series for their detailed description of battles fought at relativistic speeds. The physics, and its impact on the planning and execution of space 'naval' encounters was fascinating for me.
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That sounds like C J Cherryh's space battles in her Alliance/Union universe. Ships and ordnance moving at relativistic speeds, scan data that comes in only slightly faster than the fast moving metal behind it. Everything is based on predictive plots that update as new data comes in or it gets progressively more fuzzy as it gets more out of date. This crossed with submarine warfare as ships are small and space is big.
Oh and for Sirtel, she does have actual characters you care about as well.
Andrew