ThinksMarkedly wrote:Indeed. In space, you "sink" it by firing it in the direction of the star, which is the bottom of the gravity well in the star system. Bodies buried this way wouldn't count as debris because their trajectories are well-known and also short-lived.
And never, ever fire caskets into nebulae collapsing into Genesis proto-matter...
And unlike today's rockets Honorverse ships can fairly trivially provide the bodies sufficient velocity to actually hit the star (well get close enough to be vaporized by it).
But it's one of the oddities of orbital mechanics that from Earth it takes less than half the velocity to launch something entirely out of the solar system than it does to launch it into the sun. (Earth's orbital velocity is 29.78 km/s while the system escape velocity from Earth is only 42.1 km/s - so add 12.32 km/s to leave or remove 29.78 km/s to drop into the sun)
Those are huge velocities today, but a matter of just minutes of acceleration for any Honorverse ship.