Re: [TML] Starship Berthing Philosophies?
shadow@xxxxxx 26 Jun 2015 01:41 UTC
On 25 Jun 2015 at 11:29, Grimmund wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 1:30 AM, <xxxxxx@shadowgard.com> wrote:
> > Hide inside a "fake" asteroid. Or beyond the ice line, hide inside a
> > *real* iceball.
>
> That's going to be a long deployment. Possible, but a long investment.
>
> If you have to jump in way out beyond the ice line, snag a rock,
> reshape the orbit, conceal your ship, etc.
>
> Might be more cost effective to plant a sensor platform on the ice
> ball, send it through the system, and go home. Or, you know, several
> of them in succession.
Ooops. That was supposed to be a trick the *defenders* use to hide
things from an incoming fleet.
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