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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Well, probably the Marcuses wanted to demonstrate that their nifty device could produce life out of absolute lifelessness - it might have been a claim they made to their funders or something. If they just fired at an already life-bearing planet, the financiers would come and say "Oh, your machine does nothing but diversify existing life. We wanted one that makes agricultural planets out of sterile deserts. How can we be sure it works if those bacteria and algae and sand eels you had at your test planet aren't there to begin with?" Or then the Marcuses wanted to do a small-scale experiment at Stage Three - not create an entire biosphere at "full yield" but just transform enough of the surface to create a layer of microbes out of silica dirt. They couldn't rely on their post-blast analysis if there had been pre-blast organisms. As for Nimrod's idea, yup, blowing up the torps sounds like a good way to cripple the ship. Unless it is one of those with podded launchers. A Galaxy would be nicely severed in half, and Main Engineering probably ruptured as well, if her neck and tail and saucer aft rim blew - but a Miranda might just get some charring at the upper aft hull. Depends on how powerful one of those prearmed q-torps really is, and how many are available. They haven't been all that impressive in the engagements we have seen them used in. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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