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If they stay out of range and snipe, I don't see how you could counter-attack, since they would have an insurmountable advantage in ship-to-ship combat.

They also wouldn't do anything. And I'm willing to bet that the ships carry fewer supplies than the freaking planet.

...so essentially, you're going to assume that a mansion wasn't at all valuable to them. At all.
And that leaving their house trashed is a nice way of thanking them for letting nearly everyone bunk there.
....

Fits well with Akroma's logic so far.

OY!

How do automanips work? I need some help before I can start with Grate's design.

You have to account for atmospheric diffusion as well GWG

True. Still, even if the range was cut to a tenth, it would be more than sufficient. Again, I don't see any significant issues from range of laser batteries; sure, the ships can try sniping, but at 200,000 or 20,000 km they'll leave a good bit of room open for counter-attacks if they use kinetic weapons (and will have lower ranges if they try lasers).

Quote from: Taricus on February 07, 2014, 03:32:27 pm

You have to account for atmospheric diffusion as well GWG

Good thing Hephaestus has a moon then, right?  It's pretty small so I'm making the assumption it has no atmosphere.

It has native life, and people can walk around without space suits or dying.
Also, Titan feels snubbed.

Repeat.

I think that 3d6 (3-18, avg. 10.5) doesn't give enough variation when average statistics are around 10-30. 1d% is too much variation, too little stability, but maybe somewhere in the middle? 3d10, maybe four?

I should probably get to work on an idea. Let's see...

How do automanipulators work, again?

Of course, you have to wonder exactly how many people are in the French army when 5 light plasma is enough to "exponentially beef up their military might".

I suppose they only give them to soldiers that don't surrender immediately. Surprised they needed that many.

Seriously, how has no one made a cheese-eating surrender monkey joke yet?