Re: [VV] Gate defence

John Atkinson wrote:

>I have neither the time nor the inclination to recapitulate every word
>said about warp point defenses over the course of four very long and
>complex novels.  Especially as it is not summarized neatly in
>pseudo-dialogue, but is simply demonstrated over and over again in an
>orgy of anti-matter explosions.
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As much as I hate to risk tweaking John's nose, these are David Weber 
novels we're talking about here. Everything IS summarized in 
pseudo-dialogue and often and some length and with some degree of 
redundancy. I will grant John the "not always neatly" part.

-- 
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade
and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are
hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of
our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are
willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we
intend to win, and the others, too.

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