RE: Re: Greetings and Nuclear Weapons.
Graeme Lennon (graeme@balefire.net)
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 21:27:52 -0500 (EST)
> Now I have another question for LoGH. From all the
> planets shown on the show, how do they keep building
> 10s of thousands of ships? Do they have giant
> factories planets that we don't see? or are all the
> peasants just for show (to make the nobles feel they
> are in 18 century Europe).
A peasant could operate a modern automobile factory, and I assume
mass-production techniques only get better in the future. :)
> --- Jerry Yen wrote:
> > From: Graeme Lennon
> >
> > The direct-hit situation was never in doubt, we were
> > primarily discussing
> > soft-kill potential. If you could ask your friend
> > what kind of distance
> > ranges he is talking about for EMP and rad effects,
> > that would be
> > interesting.
> >
> > If it's anything less than 50-100 klicks, then
> > they're not really
> > relevant, I think.
> >
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > No one that we know of has conducted deep space
> > nuclear testing, so, the
> > effective range of EMP is questionable.
> >
> > Which brings us to the question of, what sort of
> > defense do these ships have
> > against EMP/EMP weapons? What type of shielding do
> > the ships have, and how
> > effective are they?
> >
> > LoGH does not address these little things. It's a
> > space opera, not a sci-fi
> > geek show.
> >
> > I have this mental picture of Ikari Shinji on the
> > deck of a FPA cruiser,
> > yelling "I don't wanna do this", as Imperial ships
> > rain impressive array of
> > weapons on the cruiser, which are all rendered
> > ineffective by an AT field
> > generated by the powers of a magical wand, silver
> > crystal, and a floating
> > mechanical cat head in the shape of a balloon.
> >
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