Re: Space Lanes? (was Re: [OT] Sea Lanes was: Liberals )

At 4:29 PM +0100 9/16/02, Germ wrote:
>In the Starwars computer games you had a stardestroyer variant that had
>a gravity generator or some thing that would force ships nearby to drop
>out of hyperspace. There must be other Sci-Fi ways of almost netting
passing
>ships rather than have to rely on catching them at specific points.

Pirates don't operate off the coast of New York City. They operate in 
choke points way outside of major powers spheres of influence when 
they are attacking larger ships. The pirates in the South East Asian 
areas are able to hide in massive numbers of islands and do take 
things from larger ships.
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