tater Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 11 hours ago, magnemoe said: Issue is that even at WW 1 naval combat took place at so long range its not cinematic anymore because of rangefinders and fire control tables who was analogue fire control computers. Space combat in babylon 5 was good til it jumped the shark near the end. You'd see a Narn ship fire a particle beam. Cut scene. Centauri ships coming around the limb of a planet in orbit—that get cut in half by beam. Ships implied very far apart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 (edited) On 4/17/2024 at 3:10 AM, SunlitZelkova said: Depends on your definition of using aircraft. Japanese scout planes dropped flares over Allied cruisers at night time during one of the Guadalcanal battles, and then the surface ships attacked. Well, by that definition, we get to Rutland of Jutland Edited Monday at 07:07 PM by DDE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted Monday at 07:10 PM Share Posted Monday at 07:10 PM Rebel Moon's premise belongs here. An interstellar-capable empire bullies peasants to give up grain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superfluous J Posted Tuesday at 12:28 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 12:28 AM 5 hours ago, DDE said: An interstellar-capable empire bullies peasants to give up grain. It's worse. They bully peasants of ONE VILLAGE on ONE PLANET (okay, moon) for grain. Like, think big. Oppress the entire planet or even better the whole sector. I mean come on people Tarken would make Vader force choke you into next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted Tuesday at 03:52 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:52 AM They were too lazy to oppress just a single farm, and see what happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codraroll Posted 45 minutes ago Share Posted 45 minutes ago On 4/22/2024 at 9:10 PM, DDE said: Rebel Moon's premise belongs here. An interstellar-capable empire bullies peasants to give up grain. Well, rather recently we have seen a space-capable empire go to dirt-poor rural backwaters to bully its peasants for purposes as evil as any Star Wars villain's. But in an inversion of the trope, they take the peasants themselves for cannon fodder, and they pay with potatoes and fish as compensation. Far too few rebels in sight to stop the madness, sadly ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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