Sounds like gun control. Many pirate types would modify/remove
the safeguards anyway...
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from my T989
wrote:
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...)
>
> 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
>
>>From: " <> "
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>
>
>>The Imperial rule on nukes would have been re-interpreted in
TNE to state
>
>>"the use of nukes on a world," since all space missiles were
nukes. But
>
>>since there was no Imperium left, we probably didn't explain
that. All
>
>>space missiles were nuke-pumped lasers as that was the only way
to
>
>>realistically make missiles work. Getting skin-to-skin contact
with HE
>
>>missiles the way earlier editions assumed was just not going to
happen.
>
> Dave
>
>