Subject: nuclear non-proliferation in LoGH (was: PRE-WESTERLAND)Non-member
Hank Wong (hankwong@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU)
Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:16:13 -0700 (PDT)
Episode 23 spoilers below.
-Hank
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*** SPOILER ALERT ***
(thru westerland, ep.23)
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Michael Mikulis wrote:
> With the Westerland massacre, the nobles lost every other planet
> they held and were desperate enough to charage out of Iserlohn to
> die. There are more people in Reinhard's fleet than the population
> of Westerland. If the massacre hadn't happened, the nobles would
> have managed to hold on. Reinhard would have been stuck trying to
> take Geirsburg with his supply lines being exhausted.
>
oberstein did want to force a showdown. reinhard's lines of supply
and communication were long and vulnerable. it was entirely possible
that they might be forced to break the seige before geiersburg was
taken, possibly to counter insurgents or a fifth-column of the nobles
elsewhere (even odin itself).
* * *
speaking of nukes (or whatever their LoGH foo-science equivalent is)
how come they don't use them more often in the series? you would think
that one side or the other would have resorted to using at least
tactical nukes -- more often than we've seen -- especially if they're
losing.
we do know that both imperial and FPA fleets carry nukes. reinhard
deep-fries an FPA fleet in the first movie when he ignites the gas
giant. yang literally pulls his bacon out of the fire at amlitzer when
he drops nukes into the red giant and escapes on the updraft. in neither
instance did they need any kind of weapons clearance from superiors.
so i wonder if there's some kind of convention that prevents them
from using nukes in regular engagements? even as spoilers to attack
(area denial), a diversion, or even in a sapping function...
maybe this is explained more in the manga?
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Wayne H. Yin
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