This weekend we flew a Rafik B against a couple of LP-20s. Since the LP-20s are nominally XC ships, and Altiplano bought Rafik-Bs from Medina, I thought I...
... 10% ... You know, this idea looks like it has potential. I mean, imagine all the stories about pumped-up hardsuiters going berserk that one could write! ;)...
... surgical ... very high ... of safe ... improve ... more than ... imagine all the ... write! ;) ... My main twitch about implanting/surgicallly altering...
... civillian ... Can't imagine why... :) I think it sounds like an interesting "option" for less "ethical" (and/or particularly desperate) governments...
Agreed. Not everyone would do this, but desperate people or committed career soldiers may. May well be some real dangers! I'm not so sure removing some kinds...
Michael Staley
mstaley1@...
Jul 1, 2002 9:56 pm
2322
... Some things aren't a lot more useful in normal life, as they would be more or less directly tailored towards making the soldier more compatible with the...
... What I'm driving at is whether there is something akin to the FBI, the FBI HRT, Secret Service, Texas Rangers, State Police, etc. Something which has...
... well ... either ... anyone ... Ahh, ok. As I see it, we have 1 police force headquartered in New Providence with jurisdiction over the whole colony. Local...
... Go UIUC physics! --J "And rain will make the flowers. . ."...
Jeremy Williams
jbw@...
Jul 1, 2002 11:18 pm
2326
... You do remember that in Heinlein's STARSHIP TROOPERS the job of ship's pilot was exclusively for women. The justification was better reaction time....
Did you ever read a short article called THE WARBOTS by Larry S. Todd? It was in Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1968 and more recently in a collection BODY...
In STARSHIP TROOPERS, Heinlein makes a lot of fuss about negative feedback to make operating the suit second nature. The reason for the hand-wave is ease of...
... or ... One hitch that occurs to me - though someone else may have mentioned it first: What can Altiplano afford at the time? Its population at the time...
... cost ... is ... the ... Of course, since most everyone else is in a similar situation having 2-3 frigates and/or corvettes is probably an aramada. It's all...
The other reason why I like the Guardia Espacial for the 2330 conflict is that that's what it's listed as in the rulebook that went to press.... We can errata...
... imagine all the ... write! ;) ... Well, of course it makes you twitchy. It makes me twitchy too, and it's not just the undoing of those things once the...
... went ... Oh. Well, I'd say that's the most decisive of arguments! :> Guardia Espacial it is, then, till sometime after 2330. Incidentally, a question...
I'm not worried about the effects of enhancements normally. Most soldiers will have families and many live off base, as part of the civilian community....
Michael Staley
mstaley1@...
Jul 2, 2002 11:12 pm
2336
The philosopher's war was about how one fellow said "Only the dead know the end of war" and another fellow sought to prove them correct - and all their friends...
Michael Staley
mstaley1@...
Jul 2, 2002 11:13 pm
2337
... myself ... place in ... least very ... order to ... fresh. ... going to ... genetic ... suitable for ... issue that ... are going ... when you ... allow ...
Graves has very valid points on all that. If they are harmful, the enhancements probably wouldn't be used, etc, etc. Agreed with all points. I tend to think...
Michael Staley
mstaley1@...
Jul 2, 2002 11:37 pm
2339
... couple ... and ... I believe that's when the Objectivist Foundation/Randists/Galt's Worlders come out to play. My guess on the name would be a play on the...
How big are fleets as of the Whatever? We begin to reach the point where this question will need an answer. The FN has a range of 12-25 ships. Larger fleets...
Considering that it usually requires 3 hulls for every one deployed and the breadth of the FN responsability...how could they really be taken seriously with...
Michael Staley
mstaley1@...
Jul 3, 2002 1:06 am
2342
... and the ... seriously ... I should have said, 12-25 ships caught outside of the Sol system by the Whatever. Not total fleet strength. Graves <Orieni>...
Ah okay - I was going to say, if the FN could administer all that area with just 25 hulls, they must be incredibly efficient :) Is there an estimate of total...
Michael Staley
mstaley1@...
Jul 3, 2002 1:35 am
2344
... area with ... Whatever? What ... quarter ... I know I put it to the list, but I don't see it in a quick look. What I did was take the high and low...
... area with ... One thing: Even before the Dim Age, I think there must have been what I'm calling "sub-game" ships - the equivalent of Coast Guard cutters, ...
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