Eridani Edict Violation of the most Dismissive Kind...

Loren Pechtel wrote:

kzt wrote:No, it's a grav pinch implosion bomb. It's a collection of electronics and hydrogen. Which is why it is basically impossible to detect without a tacker.

And not exactly. For example, the history of WWI circa 1934 in Germany. Or, as an example David agreed with, Bloody Sunday. It might not matter to you, but it matters a whole lot to many people.

Nitpick: A collection of electronics and lithium deutride. Plain hydrogen doesn't make a useful h-bomb unless you can generate pressures far beyond what we can today. Even with using an h-bomb as the trigger we can't get a boom out of plain hydrogen, the reaction is too slow.

Loren Pechtel wrote:

kzt wrote:No, it's a grav pinch implosion bomb. It's a collection of electronics and hydrogen. Which is why it is basically impossible to detect without a tacker.

And not exactly. For example, the history of WWI circa 1934 in Germany. Or, as an example David agreed with, Bloody Sunday. It might not matter to you, but it matters a whole lot to many people.

Nitpick: A collection of electronics and lithium deutride. Plain hydrogen doesn't make a useful h-bomb unless you can generate pressures far beyond what we can today. Even with using an h-bomb as the trigger we can't get a boom out of plain hydrogen, the reaction is too slow.

ldwechsler wrote:

Loren Pechtel wrote:No, it's a grav pinch implosion bomb. It's a collection of electronics and hydrogen. Which is why it is basically impossible to detect without a tacker.

And not exactly. For example, the history of WWI circa 1934 in Germany. Or, as an example David agreed with, Bloody Sunday. It might not matter to you, but it matters a whole lot to many people.

Nitpick: A collection of electronics and lithium deutride. Plain hydrogen doesn't make a useful h-bomb unless you can generate pressures far beyond what we can today. Even with using an h-bomb as the trigger we can't get a boom out of plain hydrogen, the reaction is too slow.

Vince wrote:And even with the astronomically high pressures and temperatures at the center of the Sun, normal hydrogen won't produce fusion without quantum mechanics. It's The Power Of Quantum Mechanics That Allows The Sun To Shine

cthia wrote:After the Beowulf fiasco settles, and the galaxy gets back to "normal," who is going to take on the mantle of enforcing the Eridani Edict? Whoever does, should probably put it in writing so the galaxy will be aware of it, so they'll have to get everyone else in the galaxy to sign off on it just like the original enforcers. Or it won't be anything short of vigilante justice. Unless, of course, yours is the planet skrewed.

Which offers up an amusing scenario. The RMN or the GA or some entirely new alliance including the Andermani, approaching the anorexic remnants of the gorilla asking them to sign on for "protection."

I find that very amusing. Very! LOL

cthia wrote:After the Beowulf fiasco settles, and the galaxy gets back to "normal," who is going to take on the mantle of enforcing the Eridani Edict? Whoever does, should probably put it in writing so the galaxy will be aware of it, so they'll have to get everyone else in the galaxy to sign off on it just like the original enforcers. Or it won't be anything short of vigilante justice. Unless, of course, yours is the planet skrewed.

Which offers up an amusing scenario. The RMN or the GA or some entirely new alliance including the Andermani, approaching the anorexic remnants of the gorilla asking them to sign on for "protection."

I find that very amusing. Very! LOL

Theemile wrote:

cthia wrote:After the Beowulf fiasco settles, and the galaxy gets back to "normal," who is going to take on the mantle of enforcing the Eridani Edict? Whoever does, should probably put it in writing so the galaxy will be aware of it, so they'll have to get everyone else in the galaxy to sign off on it just like the original enforcers. Or it won't be anything short of vigilante justice. Unless, of course, yours is the planet skrewed.

Which offers up an amusing scenario. The RMN or the GA or some entirely new alliance including the Andermani, approaching the anorexic remnants of the gorilla asking them to sign on for "protection."

I find that very amusing. Very! LOL

Little doubt of that. The League enforced harmony. Of course, we know the phrase "the made a desert and called it peace." That's what was going on for most of the galaxy.

That control is badly fraying. Things will get far more chaotic.
Which happens to be exactly what MAlign wants.

Actually, "Normal" is ending. In the prelude in the Universe of Honor, we are told that Honor is living in the last few years of a long period of galactic harmony, followed by a period of galactic upheaval.

ldwechsler wrote: [snied because I'm far too lazy to try and separate the merged reply.]

Little doubt of that. The League enforced harmony. Of course, we know the phrase "the made a desert and called it peace." That's what was going on for most of the galaxy.

That control is badly fraying. Things will get far more chaotic.
Which happens to be exactly what MAlign wants.

pappilon wrote:

ldwechsler wrote: [snied because I'm far too lazy to try and separate the merged reply.]

Little doubt of that. The League enforced harmony. Of course, we know the phrase "the made a desert and called it peace." That's what was going on for most of the galaxy.

That control is badly fraying. Things will get far more chaotic.
Which happens to be exactly what MAlign wants.

Yes, to be sure. Unfortunately its not quite shaking out the way they planned. Manticore was supposed to be gone, a much diminished league was supposed to wreck itself and Haven. Beowulf was supposed to be all alone with no allies. OOps