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Originally Posted by TGLS
Here's the strategy:
1) Use the superscience reactionless drives to get into the correct position and velocity with the rock. Bring several mass drivers, a big enough conveyor and chemical thrusters to get closer to the rock.
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Why bother with the rock? If you have access to a world line on which superscience thrusters can accelerate things to real velocities you can just use a missile that builds up velocity there and then pops over to just above the target on a collision course. But really there's no particular need for that. Delivering a lethal strike with a subquantum conveyer is simple enough - you can pop in, kick a suitcase nuke out the back door, and pop back out again well before anybody can reasonably react. If you install your equipment on a bomber you may be able to pop back out in less than the flight time of anti-aircraft fire.
As long as you are totally confident the opposition doesn't know about you, or have parachronic detectors somewhere data might survive your attack, this is safe enough. If the opposition does know about you or might be able to detect you, it still works if you're confident this strike will be lethal (or, as in the case of Steel, know it doesn't matter because they were never going peacefully co-exist anyway).