Re: Kra'vak Railgun & Technology!!!!

You wrote: 

>I would say drives first. While the Kra'Vak railguns are a neat 
weapon,

>Iron is Iron, Silicon is silicon. Unless the Kra'Vak are using some 
wierd >pseudoscience a railgun still basically works the same way we 
know they do. >Electricity still flows through conductors. To duplicate 
something isn't >actually that difficult. To understand how it is doing 
what it's doing is a >different matter. 

One notes that all they have to do to get the railguns operational 
would be to ask an Army technician for the stats on what the grunts 
call a Mass Driver Cannon.  Of course, in the ESU, this probably 
requires a major espionage operation, but in nations where the 
interservice rivally is less potent[1], it shouldn't be a problem.

[1]I'm Assuming ESU follows time-honored Communist/Dictatorial plan of 
putting all it's military organizations at each other's throats.  The 
worst case of this is Syria, which has 11 intelligence agencies, all of 
which spy on each other, and IIRC 6 of which do nothing but spy on each 
other.

John M. Atkinson