RE: FT: Thought on Orbital Bombardment...

Sounds like a Hellburner from H. Beam Piper's Space Viking.  VERY bad on
the 
receiving end.

Michael Brown

-----Original Message-----
From:	Richard Kirke
Sent:	Friday, February 07, 2003 6:38 AM
To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject:	Re: FT: Thought on Orbital Bombardment...

What about a Nova cannon?

What are people's thoughts on this? Could a low power Nova round be used
to
destroy a city?

I am in the middle of some fiction involving the use of one of these.
Would
be interested to hear what other people have to say.

But IMHO orbital bombardment would rarely be a tactical (as opposed to
strategic) weapon. Though ortillery as mentioned in DSII could
presumably be
carried out by specialist space craft.

Richard

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