Re: Communication and Travel

You wrote: 

>Hey, no need to get uppity, I didn't make a personal attack against 
>you.

No, just what I do.

>Keep most of your forces in orbit with those on the ground quickly 
>reinforcable and with almost instant ortillery support.

Kinda hard to collect taxes from orbit.

>Bring your whorehouse with you and keep it in orbit. 
>or, be like the saudi example, don't base your troops near enough 
>whorehouses that they wil visit them.

Very difficult to control a city without a garrison.  You're assuming 
all the little civillians and local military personell will be so 
terrified they'll just do your bidding "or else".  Somehow I doubt it, 
unless someone has managed to breed everything worth keeping out of the 
human race.  

>If the civil/guerilla disobedience is so bad that the planet is an 
>overall liability, *and* if the political climate allows it, you kill 
>or drive off everyone and resettle. Perhaps a bit unrealistic, 
>I'll admit, but hey, look at ethnic cleansing today.

And that leads to your enemy's navy nuking your planets, you nuke their 
planets, and both sides are pretty much wiped out.  Only a drooling 
idiot or a madman (See:Adolph Hitler) would start a war on those terms. 
 Rarely are wars fought over simple hatred, with no goal whatsoever in 
mind.  And frankly, I don't care to game genocide.  I leave the 
Dirtside table when nuclear weapons come into play--for me it's the 
same as gaming Auschwitz or something like that.  

John M. Atkinson