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Why did Pavel Young accept Harrington's challenge? Nov 2002
Balance of power in the Star Kingdom of Manticore Nov 2002
"Beached" or <em>half pay</em> officers Nov 2002
Manticoran Admiralty Nov 2002
Warship armor Nov 2002
Grav pulse comm and the detection of hyper footprints Nov 2002
Prolong Nov 2002
Grav pulse comm pulse generation Nov 2002
Grav pulse comm in hyper Nov 2002
Manticoran Peerage seating Nov 2002

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Warp point denial II

  • Series: Starfire With Steve White
  • Date: October 22, 2002
If the defense [using a railgun to fire a stream of iron slugs into the warp point - Ed] were allowed -- which it isn't -- there'd be no need to use a rail gun; just dropping in the garbage Arnold suggested in his original post would do the job. Unfortunately, you can dump stuff through a warp home till the cows come home and it will have absolutely no effect on ships (or objects) transiting in the opposite direction. Which means that any defense based on obstructing a warp point, or shoving stuff through it, is going to be ineffectual. In short, this won't work.