Quote: Manytales00 wrote:Every time that someone brings up the Heinlein Plan (i.e., bomb Earth with rocks), Blackstone points out that there are other things that the Fen
It would probably drive the Senator into an apocalyptic fit, but if nothing else works you could have someone quietly point out that the "Fen"
have, at the very least:
The physical High Ground,
A source of very large rocks,
and should be treated as the equivalent of a Nuclear power.
But this is only a last resort.
could do that a) would be cause less loss of life, and b) would be easier. In order:
1. Zero-G provides advantages for necessary industries that we can issue embargos on American companies and the American government.
2. As a foreign power, there are more than a hundred other countries that the Fen can do business with. Blackstone would suggest bolstering the economies of
Luxembourg and Lichtenstien (to say nothing of nations in serious need of economic assistance, like parts of Africa and Southeast Asia) before dropping bombs*
on America.
3. There are literally hundreds of satellites orbiting the planet. Co-opting or destroying them provides an effective deterrent to American intelligence as
well as demonstrating the Fens' advantages.
4. Dropping rocks on the planet affects the WHOLE planet, not just America. Unless we're willing to go to war with Earth, the Institute classifies this as
a Lost Hat Plan. **
In short, unless we are already at war, the Heinlein Plan should be avoided, to the point of not being discussed.
* - Anything moving faster than 2 meters a second does its mass in Boom. After a certain size and speed, a warhead is redundant. Rock or not, it's still a
bomb.
** - "Any plan vhere chou lose chour hat iz a BAD PLAN." - Girl Genius
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