Re: [GZG] Gzg-l Digest, Vol 37, Issue 24

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 07:42:19AM -0400, Indy wrote:

>Given the plethora of micrometeors and other general debris in our
>(relatively clean) solar system,

I think this is a fairly key thing. While we don't have canonical jump
distances and so on, if a ship can cross several AU in a few days then
it's moving somewhere around 1% of lightspeed at its fastest; that gives
you a megaton-range impact from a 1kg lump of rock that's lying in its
path. Now, you can PSB and say that that's from a known direction
("double front shields"), but it still has implications for the sort of
energy level that can get through all the defences and actually damage
the ship.

R
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