>>>>
>>>>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.
>

Hmm, not really. They did have planetbuster capability - even Dahak
could do it with an appropriately-targeted set of hyper missiles.

The superlaser as a concept, they'd find interesting, having the
entire DeathStar/AT&T built around that weapon and no other real
anti-capital-unit weaponry (that we've ever seen in use, anyway)
would leave them rather less than impressed.

>
>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'

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"Eat hot blazing photonic pulse fire, you alien invading human-abducting saucer-alien bastards!" -- Captain of EAS Bellerophon, firing on a Vree cruiser.