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So what happens when an enemy simply outflanks them? Space is three dimension and very large after all, and there are only four. Lets say you have all four protecting your planet, and the enemy approaches it like a shrinking globe around it. You're fucked.

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Underwater Asylum wrote:I see no problems so long as it has little armour, and a charge time of around a minute. As well as having a maximum speed of around 200 KM/H.

What the? 200 KPH in space??!

Megaton to gigaton range shipboard weapons.

Your skippers wouldn't do really do anything anyway. Check my post in the other shivan thread for an explanation.

I'm putting about a dozen of those babies in their core. Now, should we make the topic!?!? Dude, that's still going to do nothing. For a terrestrial world the size of Neptune, it'd take 8.460E+15 gigatons to overcome it's gravitational binding energy (blow it apart without it's debris clumping back...

For the moment, I'd prefer if no more ESUS nations showed up in the battle thread, I need to talk with Valinon about a couple things first. Thanks.

Sure, sounds good. Vaku and Boroglia are also to be left alone preferably, since they are also region mates. And while this parts up to you of course, a pocket dreadnought or something would probably work better than a Battleplate, to avoid any accusations of godmoddery from the MIDAS nations.

Well, I could just deloy in your system and help defend it; the fewer losses you take, the sooner you can launch a counter-offencive... well, unless you have OOCly plans for loosing the system, or something. Would be amusing to see the Honor-tech commander's reaction when I engage him with directed...

Diplomacy is where nations meet in a civilized manner to discuss an end to bloodshed, not where nations bring their sharpest-shooting diplomats in order to cheap shot an enemy diplomat. Depends on how you define diplomacy. New Ortaga, for example, his nation's version of diplomacy is to shoot first...