Hello Ethan,

 

Thank you for the link to the AtomicRockets site, which I had forgotten about.

 

My apologies for using "speed" instead of velocity. My thinking  when I was typing the reply was that maneuvering by changing course (Is vector a more accurate term?), accelerating (speeding up) and/or decelerating (slowing down) or a combination of them the ship under attach can either avoid the hit or minimize the damage.

 

Tom Rux