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Re: More Astronomical Goodness
Posted By: SiliconDream =PN= <querl@uclink4.berkeley.edu>Date: 7/24/00 10:35 p.m.

In Response To: Re: More Astronomical Goodness (Dan Rudolph)

> I'd think that would lead to something more like the Coast Guard
> than a Navy.

Hell, I dunno the difference between a Space Coast Guard and a Space Navy, but yeah, I guess the ships would be smaller and short-ranged. But if civil wars are a problem, then sometimes you could be fighting entire planets. They'd probably keep one or two dreadnoughts around at least for intimidation's sake.

> I'd think that if you had FTL drive and missles, you could make
> warp-capable missles, but maybe there's some trick to it.

Based on the fact that no one ever seems to teleport nukes into anyone else's ship in Marathon, in spite of the fact that this would end quite a few battles very conclusively, I think it must be difficult to fold unstable fissionable materials from place to place, unless you have a really big, stable (i.e. ship-size) FTL drive. Durandal must have beaten that difficulty before humans did. Assuming, of course, that they did indeed develop FTL travel before he arrived.

--SiliconDream

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Replies:

More Astronomical GoodnessSiliconDream =PN= 7/24/00 12:21 a.m.
     Re: More Astronomical GoodnessDan Rudolph 7/24/00 8:11 a.m.
           Re: More Astronomical GoodnessSiliconDream =PN= 7/24/00 12:42 p.m.
                 Re: More Astronomical GoodnessDan Rudolph 7/24/00 3:44 p.m.
                       Re: More Astronomical GoodnessSiliconDream =PN= 7/24/00 10:35 p.m.
                 Different PathsOctavio XVIII 7/24/00 5:06 p.m.
     Re: More Astronomical GoodnessJohn Caf 7/24/00 11:57 p.m.



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