Re: Nukes and such.
Z107M (lwtom@sdcc17.ucsd.edu)
Wed, 20 Oct 1999 15:18:23 -0700 (PDT)
> Episode 23 spoilers below.
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> (thru westerland, ep.23)
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> speaking of nukes (or whatever their LoGH foo-science equivalent is)
> how come they don't use them more often in the series? you would think
> that one side or the other would have resorted to using at least
> tactical nukes -- more often than we've seen -- especially if they're
> losing.
In that same eps with westerland wasn't there a bit of an indication that
it was pretty much bad taste to use the nukes on an inhabited planet, that
it hasnt' been done for a very loong time, which made the nobles even more
apalling.
> we do know that both imperial and FPA fleets carry nukes. reinhard
> deep-fries an FPA fleet in the first movie when he ignites the gas
> giant. yang literally pulls his bacon out of the fire at amlitzer when
> he drops nukes into the red giant and escapes on the updraft. in neither
> instance did they need any kind of weapons clearance from superiors.
Eeto, well i don't think the physics of igniting a nuke in space has been
thoroughly examined yet. So it might be rather iffy as to what happens
when you target a fleet with nuke. But we know what happens when it hits
a planet, and in Amlitzer's case, hitting the planet was jsut a step to
cause a larger explosion that wasn't the power of the nuke itself.
> so i wonder if there's some kind of convention that prevents them
> from using nukes in regular engagements? even as spoilers to attack
> (area denial), a diversion, or even in a sapping function...
Dunno about that. Don't think they've used nukes anywhere else....
Z107M
