Chris, a Strategic turn is 30 minutes long. It's not as simple as readying an action - you can't do that in ship combat. It's as much a matter of guesswork and outthinking the other person as it is tactics, since everything takes time to execute.<br/><br/>For example, knowing the enemy's cruising speed thanks to his retro burn, Sarah might assume that her enemy will attempt to slow to combat speed and engage at close range - since she knows combat speed for him is 5, her accelerating to Speed 4 would keep the enemy in front of her and within gun range.