>>>
>>>Well, I guess that puts the kibosh on having Dahak from David Weber's
>>>Mutineer's Moon novels, then.
>>>
>>>If 17 kilometers is too big, three thousand kilometers is
>>>definitely too big.
>>
>>Hell man, what do ya think the AT&T is? Aside from the worst bloody
>>pun in the entire EPU canon. ;)
>>
>
>In the Fifth Imperium's naval lexicon, "underarmed, slow,
>primitive, poorly defended, incompetantly commanded,
>unmaneuverable, undergunned..."

Be fair - I don't think they had an one shot planet-busting weapon until the third book and that was a missile. (Until then it was a matter of tractoring a really big rock for a major kinetic strike - which takes months) The super laser would have impressed them.

drakensisthered

So I simply said one of the great trite truths: "There is generally more than one side to a story." - Corwin, Roger Zelazny's 'Courts of Chaos'