🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 05:16:56 -0500, noh...@radparker.com (Death)
wrote:

>I noticed the following in alt.games.wing-commander, posted by
>we...@nospam.start.com.au (Wedge_B5):
>
>> Is the the flashpak used against the Nephilim?
>> If not why not?
>
>First, the FP is a specialty weapon that never went into full-time
>production (not that there's any real need for it), and even what was
>produced was used only by Tolwyn's Project.  Not exactly the best PR
>move there, seeing as it was used as a terror weapon (the only 2 times
>in the game we saw it used was on an unarmed medical transport and a
>transport with kat refugees, and the book hints at other civilian
>ships destroyed with the FP).
>
>Secondly, even if it was in use by Confed at that point, the Midway
>was on a shakedown cruise (didn't even have a full complement of
>fighters as of WCP), and wouldn't have specialty weapons like the FP.
>
>Finally, it wouldn't be much use against a modern warship, as it can't
>punch through their thicker armor (which is why you needed to drop it
>inside the Vesuvius' hangar bay instead of just slapping it on the V's
>hull).  Also, given the organic nature of Nephilim ships, it's not
>even known if they'd stick to the bugs' hulls.

Not to mention the fact that it depends on the chemical
characteristics of the ships atmosphere, which are probably different
in a bug's ship.

>
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