Re: [sg] platoon stuff and combat engineers

At 7:58 AM +0100 6/26/02, Roger Burton West wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 12:17:55AM -0400, Laserlight wrote:
>>This reminds me, we need to design the SaVasku boarding constructs
>>some time.
>
>"I was expecting... I dunno, a big spider or squid or something. I've
>seen the spikeys often enough, got a feel for the way their ships move.
>
>"But when this thing burned through the lock... it just stood there for
>about half a second, pulling its acid-sprayers back into its body, and
>we had nothing to compare it with. Yes, it had chitin armour. Yes, it
>had tentacles. But it just looked _alien_.

This is where one of those civilian elephant rifles would come in real
handy.

Heck, one .600 Nitro Express would probably knock if flat. 'Course 
thinking about it, did the Marines have a sniper with a HMR on board?

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