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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6028301" data-attributes="member: 177">All of which you have to do for a normal starship anyway.Think of it slightly differently - build a cargo starship.&nbsp; Fill it with concrete or lead.&nbsp; Point it at a planet.&nbsp; Kaboom!The typical no-prize way out of this is to say that Trek Warp drives don't add to kinetic energy in the usual Einsteinian way.&nbsp; But, Trek *impluse* drives are generally rated to get a ship up to almost C, and that's all you need.&nbsp; Yes and no.&nbsp; The engines on the Enterprise will only move a mass so big - but Trek has established that the upper limit is a matter of practical engineering, not of theory.&quot;Too much work?&quot;&nbsp; Really?&nbsp; Since when have cultures at real total war balked at doing work?&nbsp; Emperor Palpatine *built* a moon that could move. Certainly making an already-existing moon is less work than building one from scratch.'Cause Kllingons and Romulans and others have proved themselves to be oh, so concerned with offending Terran concepts of civilization in the past? Well, yo don't get to capture *anything* if you lose.&nbsp; Blow away the &quot;home&quot; planet, and you get to capture all the colonies without blood.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6028301, member: 177"] All of which you have to do for a normal starship anyway. Think of it slightly differently - build a cargo starship. Fill it with concrete or lead. Point it at a planet. Kaboom! The typical no-prize way out of this is to say that Trek Warp drives don't add to kinetic energy in the usual Einsteinian way. But, Trek *impluse* drives are generally rated to get a ship up to almost C, and that's all you need. Yes and no. The engines on the Enterprise will only move a mass so big - but Trek has established that the upper limit is a matter of practical engineering, not of theory. "Too much work?" Really? Since when have cultures at real total war balked at doing work? Emperor Palpatine *built* a moon that could move. Certainly making an already-existing moon is less work than building one from scratch. 'Cause Kllingons and Romulans and others have proved themselves to be oh, so concerned with offending Terran concepts of civilization in the past? Well, yo don't get to capture *anything* if you lose. Blow away the "home" planet, and you get to capture all the colonies without blood. [/QUOTE]

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