Quote:*blinkblink* You have a point.
If you want to keep the 'as designed' lok for the SDF instead of grafting on a bunch of surface ships, then just have it successfuoly rendevous with the ARMOR platforms in orbit before fleeing back down to where they have test data to try a fold, and just strip the surface ships as much as they can for crew and materials afterward, or refit one or two (the SIF-BB, say, and subs as mentioned) with drives and have them accompany the SDF seperately, liek a normal carrier group.
Quote:*imagines a cross between a snowflake and God's Own Popcorn Kernal*
Also - the chuck of ocean that got taken along seems unlikely to freeze in a chuck the way it's shown - more likely it would be a battle between surface tension pulling it in a thin layer over everything in contact, vacuum boiling it away and then freezing the vapor into an impenetreble cloud, and evaporative cooling freezing the body.
Anyway, it'd hardly be inpenetrable. Solid, like a rock, yes, but water ice'd be soft enough and have a low enough melting point to bore through relatively easily.
I like the chair bit, BTW.
Anyway, I've got another thing that needs looked at: Neither the Terran's failure to maintain complete control over something as heavily rebuilt as the SDF-1, nor the existance of an automated program that fires as soon as possible and completely gives away the mounting ship's position, make any sense at all to me.
Therefore, another explanation for the initiation of conflict is required.
Ja, -n
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