Ok, Ok,
What is the mission?
Is the mission to wipe out the entire population? Then drop nuclear warheads
on an intercept course somewhere out in the umpteenth orbit. They come in
like meterorites and are undetectable until BOOM.
Alternate: It takes a 1G ship 35.39 days to reach 1/10 speed of light.
6G's 5.9 days. At that speed 10 grams has the equivalent energy of a
kiloton. No way to stop it no screens. no dampers no lasers, no detection
just pure BOOM.
If you want to wipe a planet out, that's the way to do it.
But I think most of the invasions are going with the object of capturing a
planet, so using nukes as Bertil suggets is out. Like wise for the defenders
You don't throw nukes around if you want to live on your own planet, and
If you start throwing them so will the other guy. Right?
Finding a deep site meson gun is a snap.
You can do it with a densiometer pen of 1m or less.
Fire your meson gun at the surface. BoooM! Sismic shock pattern monitored by
densiometer. They do it now for oil with dynamite. Why not at higher tech.
You could even do it without the densiometer, just use LADAR to
measure ground movement. Even Jamming the Active EMS wont work on LADAR.
This is why I designed the
Meson Sub, At it's geothermal site, no neutrino emmisions, with nearly 3km of
water of equal density to the ship it's gonna be real tough to find.
About destroying the sensor relay's, you'd have to destroy nearly everything
on the planet that you want to capture intact.
By the way I think I left it off when i posted it, but the Herbert Dean
class Meson Sub is TL 15
I really think subs are the way to go in planetary defence. Everything else
could be destroyed too fast. Mobile defences are the key. This is why the
US spends so much on AntiSubmarine Warfare. Those SSBN Boomer subs are
deadly!!!!
This is also why in an earlyer post of mine I included an ASW contingent in
my TL-11 Overlord class Assault Helicarrier. That was designed for planetary
invasions.
Just rambling disconneted thoughts
Mr. Scott
Three Vargr are running down a wet dirt road.
The feet of the first are throwing mud up on the second, and the feet of the
second are throwing it up on the third.
After getting his nice new uniform all soiled, the second turns to the third
and says "It's a bitch aien't it?"
The third reply's "I sure hope so..."