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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]Out of interest, exactly what degree of space combat do people think is reasonable for WWIII: just orbital weapons platforms or were there more mobile units as well, as I think is stated in some non-canon stuff?[/QUOTE]Well I have my own set of ideas about that. The way I see it, WWIII started in space. I had the idea that it was largly fought over what was left of earth's resouces, mainly fossil fuels. When these ran dry I imagine there would have been a new space race between the new superpowers and global corperations, in which the goal was to stake a claim on the rich off world mineral deposites and [i]perhaps[/i] even a petrolium deposite discovered on Mars and/or Europa. Eventually things get desperate and fights break out over just who gets the choice goodies. This might have lead to acts of sabotage and terrorism back on Earth as everyone tries to undermine their competitors until inevitably outright nuclear war breaks out. This is the best reason I can think of why mid-21st century earth would have such a large standing fleet of robust spaceships. No dedicated warships, but I imagine that most large freighters, tankers and mining vessels would be armed against possible acts of piracy. Also remember that war is always an effective way of advancing technology and a space war is precisely what is needed to developed things like cold fusion, M/AM reactors, inertial dampeners, cryogenics (I assume Khan was just way ahead of his time) and of course weapons systems like effective lasers, mass-drivers/rail guns and primitive particle emitters. [QUOTE]Shots comming out of the sky COULD have been taken as missiles fired from high altitude airplanes...[/QUOTE]Airplanes at high altitudes don't tend to reflect so much light in the night sky (anyone with experience in astronomy will know the difference between a passing satellite and a passing airplane - planes are much harder to see save for their strobes), fire missiles sideways instead of forwards to say nothing about just how fast they'd have to be travelling to reach the surface so fast. What we saw was consistant with exactly what it was; an orbiting satelite firing highly accelerated projectiles at the surface. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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