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Old 09-06-2017, 08:38 PM   #12
Michael Thayne
 
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Default Re: [Ultra-Tech] [Spaceships] Weapons that are hard or impossible to miniaturize

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Originally Posted by sir_pudding View Post
Sure but as you say, weaponization in the first place implies there are some ways to compact it.

Nor are two mile spaceships unheard of in fiction.
The whole Spaceships line assumes they're uncommon, though. Two miles translates to SM +19 or +20, which is easy enough to extrapolate but which we have no worked examples of. Even the suggestion for turning an Adversary-class warship into a planet-killer using cosmic power only uses SM+18.
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