OT- Being a Twilight 2000 player has deterrence value

[HorseSoldier]

Yep. If you are crafty, you can get it going to the point where it isn't going to be stopped: No Point Defence can halt a rock the size of a small country.

And not just as even strategic level ortillery. In a sci-fi setting with FLT drives there's generally some way to work the physics to turn an asteroid into an extinction level event for a habitable planet. Either slam the asteroid into the planet at high fraction C velocities or for "jump" sort of systems, materialize one or more rocks the size of Delaware or larger on fault lines.

The fact that Traveler 2300/2300AD's FTL system seems expressly written to preclude that sort of thing makes me certain someone started talking about it during the Great Game they played to get that setting's backstory done.

[stg58fal]

And not just as even strategic level ortillery. In a sci-fi setting with FLT drives there's generally some way to work the physics to turn an asteroid into an extinction level event for a habitable planet. Either slam the asteroid into the planet at high fraction C velocities or for "jump" sort of systems, materialize one or more rocks the size of Delaware or larger on fault lines.

The fact that Traveler 2300/2300AD's FTL system seems expressly written to preclude that sort of thing makes me certain someone started talking about it during the Great Game they played to get that setting's backstory done.

This reminds me of the books "Freehold" and "The Weapon" by Michael Z. Williamson. Good books, if you haven't read them I recommend doing so.

Without spoiling too much of it, one of the only free planets humanity has is fighting a war for their very existence against the UN. In addition to special forces infiltrator teams that wreak havoc on Earth, the resisting planet sends some FTL shuttles to the Sol system, gets them in an Earth orbit, and then jumps them into the surface of the planet. Much havoc was wreaked, much hate and discontent spread.

[headquarters]

yeah, but

Wont your table tilt and brake all the bottles as they crash to the floor when the continental US flips over and slants / lilts on its side Or do you guys have plastic bottles also

On a lighter note, concerning TEOTWAWKI.

My wife works for AAFES at the Class 6 on Fort Bragg. For you civilians and non US folks, it's the base liquor store. So .....

On the 20th of December, as the world hurdles to doomsday, the Mrs. and I will be sitting in our house, getting drunk as SKUNKS. We have told our friends, "hey, if the world is ending, come on over. We have enough booze for us ALL to get WASTED!!!"

So, on the 20th, I will raise a glass to all of you good folks. Now what EXACTLY will be in the glass, I have no clue. Depends how far into my scotch I get.

Now, if the world is still here on the 21st and 22nd, as I suspect it will be, I will have a MONSTER hangover. I might wish the end HAD come.

My $0.02

Mike

[weswood]

Wont your table tilt and brake all the bottles as they crash to the floor when the continental US flips over and slants / lilts on its side Or do you guys have plastic bottles also

That'll only happen if we move everyone to either the west or east coast. Mostly glass beer bottles, and plastic coke bottles. But there's some plastic beer and glass coke bottles out there.