Re: Attack vs. MultiRole

>Los says stuff:
>[with other stuff clipped]
> >(Screw it lets just go to transporter beams and get rid of
> >landers all together!<grin>)
>
>Ya know...sounds like an excellent little tech level feature for an
alien
>race...(not Kra'Vak, but someone else? transporting Sa'Vasku troops??
or
>some other BEM...)

There was a reasonably good science-fiction anthology comic series a few

years ago (Marvel put it out...it was called *something*Space, as I
recall) 
in which FTL travel was achieved using a form of teleportation that only

worked (safely, at least) in a near-vaccuum.  In one story, a squad of 
troops is teleported down to the planetary surface from orbit, after
some 
form of massive plasma weapon is used to first blast the target area. 
In 
the split second of vacuum that results, the (power armored) troops are
then 
beamed down.

Frankly, the physics of it seems rather dodgy, at best.  It would work
great 
in a game scenario, though....	First comes the blast template, and then
a 
squad of PA standing on the liquified remains of your troops.

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