The Laws of the Handwave

[robkelk]

(Bluemage)

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Essentially, this boils down to: can a component be 'waved, and combined effectively with hardtech, if the original component could be combined in that fashion?

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I certainly hope so - that's how I designed "Noah's angels"...
(Epsilon)

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Unless Earth has some sort of sophisticated orbital defense system that is several tech levels beyond anything hard tech could produce in the next ten years it is screwed.

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Well, there is a Star Wars Fen base in L5 orbit, right beside Stellvia; it makes a certain amount of sense for various 'Dane governments to offer both stations incentives to protect the planet, but that only covers at most one-sixth of the Earth's sky. Also, how they'd protect Earth is something To Be Determined...

(Morganni)

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Now, on to a different question... gravity fields. When you have two ships (or things larger) with artifical gravity, and one intersects the other, whose field wins for what purposes?

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The bigger one. It moves more slowly, so it changes more slowly...

(M Fnord)

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...where the Mundanes would make just as much use of handwavium as Fandom, only in dull and uninteresting ways.

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"The meek shall inherit the Earth. The rest of us will go to the stars."

(Edit because inspitation hit just after I pressed "Add Reply"...)
-Rob Kelk
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