Editing Legend of the Galactic Heroes (section)

==Tech Level of the Setting==
LotGH is very close to [[Traveller]] in terms of technology.  There are handheld lasguns, ships have energy weapons and shields, there's gravity and anti-gravity tech. Battles are fought with hundreds of thousands of ships of over hundreds of thousands of kilometers.  

The main quirk of the setting is warp travel.  Travelling over interstellar distances is done by jumping each leg between charted stars.  The trouble is logistics.  Interstellar travel consumes a lot of energy, engines break down, and ships need to refuel and recharge.  A lone smuggling ship, fitted for distance running, can cover known space in days.  A fleet, attempting the same, will take weeks.  A force can travel fast or it can travel in good order.  When Mittermeyer and Reuenthal rushed to Odin after the attack on Reinhard, they set out with 20,000 ships but by the time they reached Odin they only had 3,000 left, with a long line of stragglers strung out across space behind them.  The founders of the FPA wandered in unknown space for a couple decades, crawling between systems where their scouts confirmed they wouldn't be stranded permanently with no resources, until they finally found a system with an inhabitable world.

Another major piece of tech-fluff is the Seffle particle.  Their composition is not explained, but in practice they are a form of insensitive explosive aerosol that reacts to laser weapons with similar force to a dust explosion.  Released in battle, they serve the same story role as shields in [[Dune]], forcing combatants to use melee combat in ships rather than risk triggering a blast that could breach the hull.  Their actual in-setting use is for demolition; using them in a fight is a desperation move, the sort of thing an elite but outnumbered force would do to buy time or storm a defensive position.