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RE: [GZG] Re: Mines



Seems quite resonable as long as you picked an unknown cometary body.  The
system defenders might get a little suspicious if, say, Halley's Comet
turned up 3 years early.

Brendan
'Neath Southern Skies
http://home.pacific.net.au/~southernsk/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Foley
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 8:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [GZG] Re: Mines
> 
> This reminds me of a concept I came up with a while back that 
> I thought was a bit cute (although perhaps a bit 
> implausible).  We were doing a storyline that didn't allow 
> for cloaking fields, so instead of those we came up with a 
> ship concept where the ship would use ECM with minimum 
> emissions while it trailed behind a comet and let its sensor 
> signature get broken up by the comet's tail, perhaps using 
> gentle nudges of thrust with several of the ships on the 
> comet itself so that you didn't have to wait a literally 
> astronomical amount of time to get in-system.  

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