Rakaydos

it sounds like the person who titled the video expected the bearing to spin like a top in the center of the (symmetric) magnetic field. However, the bering did not stay in the center, and instead spin vertically against the inducing coils, ignoring the lateral effects of more distant coils.

it blocks a quarter of the light of a reasonably large star. There's no way a solid object that large ISNT significantly wobbling the star, but nothing like that is mentioned.

Guys, it's not someone building a dyson sphere. It's the wreckage of a -destroyed- dyson sphere. Because you cant hide a dyson sphere from other civilizations, and it cant dodge.

Cheaper transportation makes top of the line satelite compnents unnesisary. If you can afford three times as many replacement flights, you can afford to pay a tenth the cost for something that breaks down twice as fast.

By being cheap and reliable enough to get the ENTIRE low mass market to itself? If it can reenter with a payload, that another market that right now only Dragon fills.

Crashed a mun lander, with only the RCS tanks and maneuvering jets still attached to the pod. Flew back up to low mun orbit on RCS alone.

Ill say it again- float a fusion drive in any gas giant, using the atmosphere as a fuel tank. Your TWR is going to be crap, but its good ISP and your fuel fraction is literally astronomical. Then just flythe gas giant into earth.

Build a fusion rocket into Neptune, using neptune's atmosphere as fuel. fly neptune past earth to slingshot it below the sun's roche limit.

With laserblinding being the primary shortrange tactic and directed energy warheads on any kinetic attack (so they can engage from the edge of energy range), I feel that low thermal signature sensor drones will have a place. Launched with a cold gas air cannon to get it clear of enemy laserblind, side nearest to the enemy actively cooled to match stellar backround and made of radar absorbing materials, it floats around on cold gas rcs until the active cooling component cant keep up with thermal buildup, observing and sending observations to blinded ships.

Sure. Use an insulated sabot to do the acceleration, then decelerate the hot sabot so it dpesnt reveal the torps vector. Put directional radiators on the recon torps- what the enemy sensor platforms 5 light minues away report is irrelevant if the torp can change vector even slightly with cold gas thrusters. Passive sensors and a maser comunicator, to avoid betraying emissions toward the source of the mothership's laser blindness.

Please take it to PMs, or at least spoilers, please?

I'm more interested in using railguns to deploy disposable sensor platforms designed to have stealth in space at tactical ranges and durations (Active cooling, cold gas RCS, ect) that can get clear of the enemy's laserblind and have their own sensors, tramsmitting back to the mothership. Alternate versions can mount weapon systems- if they can remained undetected long enough to get into effective Casabla Howitzer range, game over. These arnt Missiles, but they're Torpedos, at least.

Well, this topic is getting far afield. lets get back on topic. The Jovians decide to start by conquering their trojan asteroids. When they star building Laserstars (see other topic) people get nervous and buillding their own ships- when the laserstars are launched on a good Jupiter-SJL4 transfer, the L4 trojan miners request assistance from the belters. How long will it take the jovian laser stars to reach L4, given reasonable TRL4 tech? With the same tech, what's the least time it would take any point in the belt to respond to help the trojans? What ships do you build to counter laserstars, with TLR4 tech?

L1,2, and 3 are not stable. (that's the points in line with the two primary bodies) L4 and L5, however, are dynamically stable. (this has the two suns 60 degrees apart in the sky)

As I'm the one setting the scenerio, I dont need to prove it.

But the jupiter-worshipers dont have the trojans.

Given that the Jovians are the aggressor, but also the ones most vulnerable to MAD (few high-density population centers compared to the Belters disperced ppulation) wouldnt it be in the Jovian's bes interest to stay out of MAD situations?

Lets nail this down a bit. The religious fundamentalists come from the main moons of jupiter. Lets call it some form of neo-Olympian worship of Jupiter, if it matters. In addition to the main colonies on Ceres, Vesta and the others, there' also lots of mining ships throught the belt that are practically independant colonies, giving the Belters a very disperced infrastructure. Jovians are good with short range space travel, such as within the jovian system, but the Belters live with the realities of microgravity every day.

Seasonal tourist trap. Where else in the galaxy can you stand, skin/fur/scales bared (allowing for cultural mores and the local climate) while watching a total astronomical conjunction of a habitable planets star by that planets natural satelite? Also kitten videos.

SJL=Sun Jupiter Lagrange and the L4 and L5 dont orbit jupiter, they COorbit the sun 60 degrees ahead and behind. They are each as far from jupiter as jupiter is from the sun.

Can I get away with saying "Mature and self sustaining"? Lets say both nations have a discressionary income comparable to the Cold War Powers, with relatively near future (again, TRL 4 or higher) technoligy.

What would the belt's best responce be to prevent that sort of attack? disperced sensor network? Sleeper agents in Jovian traffic control?

Sounds like we need to impose a "if anyone goes outright genocidal, Earth wakes up and beats everyone" limit.

I made a thread for that...