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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kronos182" data-source="post: 6028128" data-attributes="member: 6668634">@ Umbran : Actually.. I think the reason no one in Star Trek uses something like an asteroid with a warp drive attached to it as a kinetic kill weapon, is due to warp drive dynamics, stresses, and all that other fun stuff. Traveling at warp speed is kind of like traveling in air.. there are stresses that must be over come, through hull shape, the shape of the warp bubble/field created by the nacelles, and structural integrity fields. One of the rules of warp flight is 'faster than light, no left or right'.. well not a DEFINITE rule, the straighter the flight path, the better, with gentle curves over light hours of distance are fine, but sharp turns require dropping out of warp.An asteroid requires too much work to make it warp capable especially over a long distance flight to a target. Have to install the nacelles, an anti-matter/matter power source, deflector fields, structural integrity field projectors if you're launching it any distance, computer for flight control and navigation.. Also I think there's a limit to how much mass a warp system can move, so a really good asteroid which will outweigh even the largest starship might not be able to be launched to warp speeds due to limitations in technology.So yaeh... big long answer.. oh.. and also because it's 'uncivilized' and probably violates a number of treaties of types of weapons that are allowable in war, like we have today.. and it'll destroy a massive amount of infrastructure and resources you'll want to capture.</blockquote>

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