On Wed, 25 May 2011, Onno Meyer wrote:
water is much less compressible than either air or vacuum (if
you can talk about compression in the latter case).
Does demolision sometimes use the shockwaves generated for some
constructive purposes, or is it all just waste energy? If the former, you
don't have that in vacuum.
In any case the energy that is usually going into shockwaves, will go
someplace else in vacuum. What i don't know is, weather it goes somewhere,
where taking it into account is trivial, or not.
If the answers are, waste energy, and trivial, indeed vacuum demolition
would not warrant it's own skill. I just don't know enough about
demolition to answer that myself.
Both fuel skimmers and SDBs hide regularly in gas giants, and
many ordinary ships skim their own fuel as well. That means a
lot is going on within the gas giants of industrialized
systems. How about specialized salvage or strike teams, then?
Are they actually landing or going to the surface of the gas giant? I was
always under the impression that theese operation happen in comparably
high places in the athmosphere of the gas giant.
There might be a place for rescue teams going after ships that have
crashed in gas giants. Provided there are reasonable chances to actually
survive such a crash. I am not really sure if salvaging the ships
themselfs is really worth the effort. And they might use demolishion,
though i would assume cutting through to be a more usual method.
That a ship is within the gas giant, not crashed yet and not crashing
before you can get a team there, but in need of rescue or salvage, seems
like a rather unlikely occurence. Sure it might happen, especially if pcs
are around, but i don't think it happens often enough, that you train
people for it.
Boarding actions and other strike teams seem less plausible to me. You get
close enough to deploy a team onto a ship that is moving within a gas
giant, and you for some reason don't want or can't shoot at it instead.
The strike team then either boards the ship or sabotages it, and either
you take over the ship, without crashing it or have a method of getting
your striketeam back.
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