Those safeties make good sense. Would have been a good thing for us to
think of.
On top of that, the space combat missiles are not streamlined for
atmospheric use, so should break up upon entering atmo anyway. As you
point out, TNE had lots of powered or deadfall ordnance designed for
planetary bombardment.
> In my TNE-verse Det Nukes were crafted in such a way that any significant
> atmosphere around the nuke would result in the nuke warhead
> fragmenting/duding when the compression charge/laser/whatever tried to
> achieve a critical mass. Other safeties include basic densitometers to
> prevent detonation close to significant bodies (Earth, Vesta, Pamela
> Anderson...)
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> Of course, military-standard det-nukes didn't have the densitometers - but
> even then, if they wanted to nuke a world they'd use ordinance fit for the
> job.
>
> Eamon
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>>The Imperial rule on nukes would have been re-interpreted in TNE to state
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>>"the use of nukes on a world," since all space missiles were nukes. But
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>>since there was no Imperium left, we probably didn't explain that. All
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>>space missiles were nuke-pumped lasers as that was the only way to
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>>realistically make missiles work. Getting skin-to-skin contact with HE
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>>missiles the way earlier editions assumed was just not going to happen.
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> Dave
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