Re: [SG/DS] Orbital assault was RE: Troop Quality was RE: [SG2] weapons

>That's why I wanted to have Planetary Defense Systems that would make
orbital bombardment tricky - but systems that were in turn vulnerable
to a ground-based assault.

It need not be Orbital Defense Systems (name change to avoid conflict
with
PDS) -- it might just be that systems designed to shoot through vacuum
don't work too well through atmosphere.  IIRC you want a neutral-charge
particle beam for vacuum, for instance, but a charged particle
accelerator
weapon works better through air.  Ortillery ships would then be the ones
fitted with CPAWs.

Of course, some of us don't *have* an atmosphere, so ODS will be a
necessity.

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