There were only two ways to lift anything from a planetary surface into orbit before Contact. The first was to strap it onto a rocket engine at Cape Canaveral or any of the other launch sites around the world. That[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I didn’t just think of going outside the galactic arms on my own you know. I wasn’t just some wanderlust person looking for someplace new to look at. I had an actual mission. I’d been tracking Shang ship movements for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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There was another use for Pre-Contact projectiles. A particularly ruthless warship commander could stay outside conventional rocket range and fire the projectiles at stationary targets. Planets or space stations are examples of this. Accuracy was the common problem of these[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We live in a spiral galaxy. The galactic arms spiral around the core, spreading out the further away they get. And the stars filling those arms make interstellar travel possible. Literally. We couldn’t do it without them. Think about it.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The primary weakness of projectiles in combat was that they were fired in a certain direction at a certain speed and their ability to modify either course or speed was limited. All a warship had to do was maneuver away[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I grew up near a small town. I went into town every day to go to school. I partied with the townsfolk and all the farm kids in the area. I don’t remember ever being alone as a kid. Yeah,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By the end of Twilight’s third season, the network knew they were on the verge of cancellation. In making a case for season four they began doing what the audience had been asking for. The gang tracked Solo’s employers down[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The most common Pre-Contact warship attack was the equivalent of David throwing a rock at Goliath. Warships used electromagnetic rail guns, or the older exploding shells of autocannons and machineguns, to fling projectiles at the enemy. Even with rudimentary guidance[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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