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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8083028" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>Well, if we really want to start injecting realism in here, barring Star Trek style magic technology, the simple cost of interplanetary conflict would be astronomical. The idea that a state would have the resources to build, not one, but dozens, possibly hundreds, of craft capable of traversing planetary distances, is largely laughable. </p><p></p><p>Good grief, it takes billions of dollars just to put a remote rover about the size of a car on Mars. Weaponized? We'd have to start inventing new numbers to keep up with the costs.</p><p></p><p>1. You'd need orbital construction facilities - you can't make these things inside of a gravity well - too expensive to get off the ground. That, right there, is a significant investment of decades.</p><p></p><p>2. The ships themselves have to keep their crews alive - not an easy feat. Look at how difficult it is just to land a few people on Mars. And no one is shooting at them.</p><p></p><p>3. The ships have to be able to survive being attacked. Again, no mean feat. Simply accelerating rocks could easily destroy a spacecraft. IOW, it would be vastly cheaper to destroy spaceships than build them. Not really something you want to go to war with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 8083028, member: 22779"] Well, if we really want to start injecting realism in here, barring Star Trek style magic technology, the simple cost of interplanetary conflict would be astronomical. The idea that a state would have the resources to build, not one, but dozens, possibly hundreds, of craft capable of traversing planetary distances, is largely laughable. Good grief, it takes billions of dollars just to put a remote rover about the size of a car on Mars. Weaponized? We'd have to start inventing new numbers to keep up with the costs. 1. You'd need orbital construction facilities - you can't make these things inside of a gravity well - too expensive to get off the ground. That, right there, is a significant investment of decades. 2. The ships themselves have to keep their crews alive - not an easy feat. Look at how difficult it is just to land a few people on Mars. And no one is shooting at them. 3. The ships have to be able to survive being attacked. Again, no mean feat. Simply accelerating rocks could easily destroy a spacecraft. IOW, it would be vastly cheaper to destroy spaceships than build them. Not really something you want to go to war with. [/QUOTE]
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