| From: | "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Military |
| Date: | Fri, 20 Dec 1996 18:50:51 +0000 |
100000@*****.Colorado.EDU>, Brian Angliss <angliss@*****.COLORADO.EDU>
writes
>One thing, though, Paul: If the official line is that UCAS sold NASA to
>Ares, how do they maintain a significant space presence?
The same way the Royal Air Force recovered from the 1957 Defence White
Paper, which declared that "the manned aircraft has been rendered
obsolete by the surface-to-air missile" ;)
I don't personally see any UCAS manned space stations up there, but
recon birds, comsats and assorted military satellites would all be
present. If nothing else, they used up the Minutemans and Peacekeepers
to put them up :)
>Unmanned
>launchers put up THOR sattelites and all that, but not a manned
>presence. That appears to be exclusively within the domain of the corps,
>according to Corp Shadowfiles.
Agreed. Again, what would the UCAS need a manned space station for?
Research? Corp problem. Military? Easier to use salvoes of missiles and
killersats to take out anything you need destroyed.
The UCAS has _a_ space presence, but not a dominant one, in my personal
view.
--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...
Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
