| From: | Brian Angliss <angliss@*****.COLORADO.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Brave New World |
| Date: | Tue, 3 Mar 1998 00:23:51 -0700 |
>major objection to such a thing existing? There would be little reason
>for their existance if there wasn't at least a notable space presence by
>Ares. If it is ZO and ZO alone as the major station up there (anybody
>know how big it is?) then I can't really justify it. I thought it was a
>neat idea a year and a half ago when I thought of it, but so to speak, it
>never came up in conversation here, and there is no real justification for
>using it (yet) but I figure now is as good a time as any to toss it out.
Just as a quick comment on this thread - Maxim Arms, while officially not
being run anymore as I'm not around, had what was presented as the most
significant orbital presence outside of the Big 8. Nicole Velli, President
and CEO, dropped a couple of THORs on one of her own facilities after it
was cruise missiled. Maxim Aerotech had 2 or 3 aerospace fighters, armed
with dual-use missiles(just a few) and lasers for sattelite interception
and they were capable of being anywhere in the world in about 20 minutes -
Maxim owned a small station they bought from Fuchi. Because the fighters
were capable of horizontal take off from earth, they were also used for
high-speed transports, when all the weaponry was stripped off them and they
were rebuilt. I got some of the ideas from CP2020.
Damn, I can't remember the fighter's names though.
And just in case anyone remembers, the list came to a consensus at the time
I was running stuff in space that using orbital assets to target other
corp's assets was determined to be an act of corporate war. The station
was used as a communication/transit hub for Maxim. If the list would like,
I can probably dig all the stuff up again.
My point is that some of the things you're discussing have already been
introduced in the past, that's all.
Brian
