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Article #150Re: Origin Marketing--totally unfair
From: poke... Hutchinson
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 00:00
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In <30eb2b0a...@nntp.ix.netcom.com> Cha...@ix.netcom.com (Clay Cahill) writes: >>Lasers, yes. High-energy glowing green plasma? I dunno... > >Hmmm... I dunno either. You talking the Death Star main gun? That'd >blow a starship up, of course, but it takes so long to aim and fire it >at a planet that I can't see them aiming at a ST type starship. The Death Star main gun can kill....well, anything. But it does indeed take a long time (over a minute, at least) to aim and fire. And, since the Death Star is vulnerable to small fighters, Blair & Co. would make a trench run...hehehe >>and what >>about proton torpedoes? >> > >Good point. I don't know what the charge is on those things. If it's >chemical (an explosive) I wouldn't give them a chance... But if it's >something else? I dunno. If they match up closely with photon torps >(which are 'effing anti-matter), then the Enterprise would have real >problems with a bunch of torps delivered by fighters. They don't ever say what the proton torpedos and such are. I'd hazard that they're antimatter, but a proton torpedo probably isn't as powerful as a photon torpedo. Hell, a photon torpedo is a HELLUVALOT more powerful than ST plays it out to be... -- Lee Hutchinson Poke...@ix.netcom.com "One hundred and six miles to Chicago; we got a full tank of gas, a half- pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." "Hit it."
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From: poke...@ix.netcom.com(Lee Hutchinson ) Subject: Re: Origin Marketing--totally unfair Date: 1996/01/04 Message-ID: <4chf8g$msv@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 134028895 references: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951229174927.15580B-100000@merhaba.cc.columbia.edu> <4c3921$q4b@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <30e52882.8286644@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <4c49bb$nk@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <30e5bde3.450879@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <4c54n4$52g@cloner3.netcom.com> <30e8f4f4.1363458@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <4cbjsg$t6k@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <30e9937b.654321@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <4ccj6j$4qj@damage.usa1.net> <4ccpja$qrp@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <30ea5940.648993@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <4cer2r$1lr@cloner3.netcom.com> <30eb2b0a.1794949@nntp.ix.netcom.com> organization: Netcom x-netcom-date: Thu Jan 04 1:02:08 PM PST 1996 newsgroups: alt.games.wing-commander MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit