evilauthor wrote:I'm kinda wondering where all this space lift capacity to throw large asteroids en masse around is coming from. As far as we know, all Merlin has are some skimmers and shuttles as far as large space assets go, and I suspect that they're woefully inadequate for moving asteroids around in any kind of timely manner. After all, skimmers and shuttles are meant for planet to orbit and back ops, not interplanetary travel.
I suspect that in order to grab some asteroids, Merlin is going to have to build a ship for the job. And if he can build a SHIP, why not an ARMED ship capable of taking out the OBS on its own? Or just cut out the ship and use planet-side rail gun batteries or something that can shoot small bits of the planet at the OBS?
Of course, given how much trouble it was just to build a single PICA, building any of the above out of the Cave's resouces is probably going to require going Minecraft and building tools to build the tools and infrastructure needed just to MINE all the required elements to build a spaceship. Then you need to construct a yard to build the ship in...
And by the time that first ship is done, Charis will have won the war, won the follow up war, seized control of the Temple and the OBS control system, and be well on its way to building their own starships.
You guys are sooooo cute . . . .
