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Depends on whether you need to fling the troops into action, immediately on arrival. I sort of suspect you'd have similar concerns with thawing them out.

Confederation Navy: Missile Doctrine V. I counted the number of reloads in High Guard. W. It seems that the Imperium Navy line of battle has enough for three hours continuous fire. X. Cruisers on down about two hours worth. Y. For the small fry, it goes up again. Z. Seems optimistic, unless...

Starships: Cheapest Possible A. Going by one of those Traveller supplements, ideal gravitational living conditions are between seventy to one hundred forty percent Terran norm gravity. B. If you have plenty of time, factor one and a half thrust will eventually get you into orbit. C. All...

Unrefined fuel tank.

Starships: Cheapest Possible 1. Operating cost wise, you can't really beat a gravitationally motivated drive. 2. Everything else eats gas, in prodigious amounts. 3. And, the alternates also take up more equivalent volume. 4. For commercial shipping, I wouldn't invest in high burn thrusters...

I heard several green movements, renewable energy, and/or anti nuclear power generation, as well. Self serving, since the modern Russian state wanted to be the primary source for natural gas for Europe. Anyway, there was a build up, probably two decades long, that emphasized strategic bombing...

I believe this particular fetish is termed vore.

Slingshotting would give enough momentum not to get trapped, though not sure how much you can gas up with each flyby. Ye high burn thruster, which takes up additional volume, and will eat through some of that gas.

Difference between having a security contingent onboard, and transporting troops for delivery. In most cases, it doesn't matter, since the numbers are limited by life support, and life support is determined by the accommodations that are installed.

There was an option to nuke Berlin, but, as I understand it, the Germans surrendered before that became viable. As I understand it, there really was curiousity as to what happens when you drop a nuclear bomb on an actual city, and if there would be a difference between a uranium and a plutonium...

Starships: Cheapest Possible V. Plasma drive requires one percent of volume to create one twentieth of a thrust factor. W. That doesn't reflect on whether you can make a smaller sized drive, but does indicate as to the minimum thrust a drive could produce. X. For a manoeuvre drive, that means...

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Witnessing one, could be the impetus to secede, or convince the unconvinced to do so, en masse. So that an object lesson can't be made separately.

There wasn't much left of the Japanese Navy, by that time.

In the days leading up to 27 January 2011, an increasing number of websites were blocked. On 25 January 2011, the State Security Investigations Service, Amn El Dawla, ordered Twitter to be blocked. The following day, Facebook was shut down. On the night of 27 January 2011 the Egyptian government...