Re: Nannite Torpedo

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Michael Brown <mkkabrow@wco.com> wrote:
> I think nannites fall in to the same category as time machines and
teleportation; once discovered would get rapidly and wildly out of hand.
     Think of a biological virus - it's a nano-machine designoid
produced by
evolutionary processes. See:
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And people call me wacko...

Ok, nano-tech is much closer than time travel or teleporting, tho' less
than
you seem to think, IMHO, but that wasn't the point. The point was that
once
invoked on the battlefield, it becomes FM, and people seem to claim it
can
do anything.

What they keep failing to mention is, if it can do that, it can be used
as
a counter-measure.

Simply put, if one side has a nano advantage, the battle is already
decided,
game is uninteresting. If nano-tech is balanced, it cancels out, and has
no effect on the game. Sort of like stealth. Or Psi.

Unless VERY small advantage,that is; those can be used, but generally
sound
pretty silly to me.

The_Beast