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09-06-2016, 11:55 AM | #12 | |
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09-06-2016, 12:15 PM | #13 |
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At least you can't do space piracy that looks like age of sail piracy. With constraining delta-V, the targets and the patrols are liable to be substantially predictable too, which raises possibilities.
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09-06-2016, 01:17 PM | #14 |
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Not a lot. Note that in order for it to be practical to salvage tribute or wreckage, you actually have to be launching from the same point of origin as your victim. If you're coming from the other way or laterally you'll be going too fast to match velocities.
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09-06-2016, 01:34 PM | #15 | |
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Pirate ships that can't outrun prey never worked well. EDIT: A harder problem is that the transport likely doesn't have enough delta-V to divert much away from its destination, if you want to steal it. The two most 'real rocketry' oriented space pirate stories I know of sidestepped that: Corsair by Cambias was about hijacking payloads on the way from the Moon to Earth, and all that was needed was shifting the landing zone so that groundside confederates could seize it before the owners could get there. Neptune's Brood by Stross had the pirates make their profit by market manipulation at the destination, not by extracting it from the target ship itself.
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09-06-2016, 01:42 PM | #16 |
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You also don't need to salvage wreckage, just be a credible threat and extort less for safe passage then it would cost to eliminate you.
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09-06-2016, 02:51 PM | #17 | |
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Expended missiles and drones are also targets for salvage. As are Harrington style launch pods.
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09-06-2016, 02:58 PM | #18 | |
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Threatening to blow up ships unless their bank account back on earth transfers funds into your bank account on Mars is really stretching the definition of piracy. Last edited by David Johnston2; 09-06-2016 at 03:02 PM. |
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09-06-2016, 03:21 PM | #19 | |
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That's pretty close to how modern-day pirates work.
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09-06-2016, 03:31 PM | #20 |
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