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Saya Ishikari
Akagi Initiative Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
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Posted - 2017.02.10 18:33:55 -
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Considering that the tether alone coming down will do ridiculous amounts of damage to anything in its line of impact, I'd have to agree.
"At the end of it all, we have only what we've left in our wake to be remembered by." -Kyoko Ishikari, YC 95 - YC 117
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Saya Ishikari
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Posted - 2017.02.10 18:55:18 -
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Persephone Alleile wrote:Troubling . . . That's almost a million lives in the balance.
The outbreak on Oijanen will be much harder to isolate, I wonder how that will be handled. If it's dangerous enough to warrant an orbital stranding? The obvious answer is one I'd rather not consider.
"At the end of it all, we have only what we've left in our wake to be remembered by." -Kyoko Ishikari, YC 95 - YC 117
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Saya Ishikari
Akagi Initiative Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
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Posted - 2017.02.10 19:15:23 -
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Mizhara Del'thul wrote:Honestly doubt it. It'd seem our attentions are so far unwanted until our most prominent talents - including destruction on scales far beyond most baseliners - are wanted. If things go that far, I suspect we're looking at far worse than just under a million people in a can though. That's what worries me. The authorities waiting until that's all we CAN do, THEN asking for help.
"At the end of it all, we have only what we've left in our wake to be remembered by." -Kyoko Ishikari, YC 95 - YC 117
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Saya Ishikari
Akagi Initiative Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
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Posted - 2017.02.10 21:14:56 -
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Aria Jenneth wrote:Saya Ishikari wrote:Considering that the tether alone coming down will do ridiculous amounts of damage to anything in its line of impact, I'd have to agree. Uh-- is there any reason to think that the charges are at the top of the tether, rather than the bottom? It's held taut by centrifugal force anyway, implying it'll snap upward if cut below, so it seems like all that damage would be a really good reason to cut the tether at the base and let the forces involved, plus the platform's thrusters, tow it into higher orbit. Might make it easier to reconnect, too. Miz brings up a good point. I couldn't begin to say how it's designed, and that will determine a lot of what happens after it's disconnected.
"At the end of it all, we have only what we've left in our wake to be remembered by." -Kyoko Ishikari, YC 95 - YC 117
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Saya Ishikari
Akagi Initiative Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
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Posted - 2017.02.11 15:22:52 -
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Aria Jenneth wrote:Victoria Grey wrote:Has anyone seen anything come in or out of Muttokon? I haven't and I've been frequenting it. For all the Scope reporting of Republic vessels coming in and out I don't see a damned thing! Something seems weird to me and I don't like it. It's been a little apparent for a while that there's a whole baseline-spacer society we barely see unless somebody flags it for our attention. The systems around us are abubble with human life and activity; we just don't get to see most of it. How many asteroid colonies have you visited that have obviously been there for decades at least, but usually don't appear on sensors and scanners? How many orbital habitats? People live relatively peacefully or deal with various small to middling crises out of our sight, and it seems that's kind of how the powers that be want it. We just get called in when there's a real problem that's worth killing with a free-willed weapon of mass destruction. Probably we can't find this space elevator or the activity surrounding it because it's not infrastructure we interact with directly and nobody in charge wants us to find it. We see what the firmware in our ships, heads and sensor networks lets us. Frankly, that's likely for the best.
"At the end of it all, we have only what we've left in our wake to be remembered by." -Kyoko Ishikari, YC 95 - YC 117
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