Re: WMDs

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 02:18:26PM -0400, Tomb wrote:
>The ultimate bombardment tactic if you have a year or two to spare is
>winding up some stealth coated rocks to a good speed. Planets (and
>bases) dodge poorly. No power signature, maybe not much of a radar
>signature if coated with signal absorbent material. And the launching
>party can be a year gone.... 

And see my rough calculations on the effects of one starship
accelerating for a couple of hours.

>But since this doesn't go one, even though any Belter could do this, we
>have to assume that:
>1) Lots of less obvious monitoring/counteractivity going on
>2) Good sensors and PDS nets for planetary regions of high value
>Otherwise, 2183 would feature a lot of dead worlds. 

3) Most of the military powers in this universe don't consider it a
viable tactic. There aren't _that_ many habitable worlds that you can
afford to go blowing them up, and fine-tuning kinetic weapons is fiddly.

>I mean, before the Kra'Vak arrive and start cleaning up the Hu'man
>infestation. (Drat, there are those darned apostrophes again.... feeble
>Hu'man vocal apparatus.....)

Even K'V gotta breathe.