Quote: Ebony wrote:Part of what Jeph has his lawyer looking at is how easy it will be to modify contracts if someone jumps
1. Zero-G provides advantages for necessary industries that we can issue embargos on American companies and the American government.
the gun, be it the United States, or individual Fen.
Quote: 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 ofSomething else that Jeph is looking into, since he has a whole fleet of cargo ships running now. Granted,
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.
by UPS standards it's not very large, but still. Right now, anything of the sort is running through Australia with
maybe the occasional stop in America. This can be changed in a hurry as these things go.
Quote: 3. There are literally hundreds of satellites orbiting the planet. Co-opting or destroying them provides an effective deterrent to American intelligence asIt wouldn't take much for an escorted Starbug 1 or one of the Blue
well as demonstrating the Fens' advantages.
Midgets to scoop up a few dozen as a demonstration.
Quote: 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 thisVery much why it's a bad idea. Just one rock could throw a lot of dust and debris in the air that can affect farming halfway across the
as a Lost Hat Plan.
planet, not to mention it's really not all that surgical to begin with. It's the equivalent of curing someone
of lung cancer by blowing the offending organ out of their body with a bazooka or LAW.
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