From: Dana Shilling dshilling@worldnet.att.net
The Liberator could recharge itself quite quickly.
Not always--there's that whole business in Duel about the energy banks being drained.
There does seem to be the implication that Liberator can recharge itself in flight, maybe through sucking up hydrogen through those gill-like thingies halfway up the hull (though I've read of the Bussard Ramscoop making for a very efficient way of *slowing down* a spacecraft, due to the build up of mass as the ship goes faster and faster. Maybe things work differently in Distort Space). There's also that ring of solar panels immediately behind the gills, though I would expect them to be used while orbiting a star.
I did an article in an early AltaZine outlining my case for Liberator being an asteroid mining vessel rather than a warship but I don't think that one made it to Judith's website.
Neil