On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 05:08:36PM -0400, Kurt Feltenberger wrote: >Oh...and don't even ask about [...] >near-c rocks...
I think it's pretty much axiomatic that a reactionless drive - i.e. "put power in, get thrust out" - leads inevitably to kinetic weaponry. It's just so _easy_ to get a Kuiper belt object and aim it at your preferred target. (I know that various incarnations of Traveller have had different canonical drive technologies... I'm interested in the general case rather than the Traveller-specific one.) My own feeling is that if you have a working society with reactionless drives - and for that matter civilian spacecraft carrying nuclear reactors - you have fundamentally solved the societal problems that lead to terrorism. Otherwise you don't have a working society for very long... R _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
