>After Unicron was defeated for a second time, and then finding out
>that the geth are constructing a new body for Unicron, has anyone
>thought about taking the AT&T battlestation out of mothballs? Having
>a fold-capable weapon capable of destroying a planet should come in
>handy for fighting an evil god the size of a planet.
>I may have only seen this in a dream, but I vaguely remember that the AT&T was only fold-capable because it was powered by some notably dangerous reactor system. If that is the case, and not simply my dreaming, then mothballing it would probably include taking down the fold reactors, to keep the risk of Something Very Bad happening.
Even if this isn't the case, the first time Gryphon is aware that Unicron might be coming back is in Holiday in the Sun, which would appear to be concurrent with an unreleased part of Cybertron Reloaded. That doesn't give much time to bring a battle station back to operating status, particularly one the size of a planet.
>
>For that matter, has whatever technology allows the construction of
>the AT&T been used again, for the purposes of building artificial
>planets? If another situation like Krypton develops, and an entire
>planet needs to be evacuated, why not just evacuate them onto another
>structure the size of a planet?
>
It really depends on the time/manpower problem, which I expect Gryphon to hand-wave away - this is space opera, not Hard Science-Fiction. But it took about five years to construct the first one; if there's that much time to spare, it's probably easier to find an actual planet.
Also, that's five years with Largo pushing the project, which probably means that profitability had been thrown out the window, and breaking even followed closely behind it. So, if somebody has several fortunes to throw away, it might happen. But if it's impractical and financially unfeasible, there's probably no reason to do so. Call back once they have reliable planet-construction nanotech, and you might get a different answer.
Peter Eng
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"What went wrong?"
"I don't know. But instead of a new planet, we've got a planet-sized glob of cherry pie filling."
"Anybody have a solar-system sized graham cracker crust?"