Re: [GZG] Dirtside and StarGrunt opportunities on Mercury

>  On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Bobby <[LINK:
mailto:hansuke@gmail.com]
>  hansuke@gmail.com> wrote:
>  What are we fighting for? Ask me, cause I do give a...
>  

In the old boardgame Battlefleet Mars, the one with the board which
marked out orbital tracks for each of the planets, Mercury made a great
place to base a fleet because its short orbital period meant that every
few turns it was close enough to Earth to launch a quick assault. Mars
comes into opposition once in something over a year, and Jupiter may not
come around in the course of the game, but Mercury was back every three
months. So a base there, even if it was just a token force, kept the
Earth on its toes. 
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