Yeah, I can see that...
But I can also see there being an upper limit to what those defenses can handle

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 6:12 PM Evyn MacDude - evyn.macdude at
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> Go read the Beltstrike Module, it states that protection vs small rocks is part of a functioning Maneuver Drive. Low grade repulses as such.
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> On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 7:37 AM Jeffrey Schwartz - schwartz.jeffrey at gmail.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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>> Yeah, I think such a thing would be a standard feature in the piloting system
>>
>> IMTU has two additional features :
>> 1) Going over a certain speed, depending on the amount of
>> debris/dust/etc in the area, is highly likely to splatter the
>> spacecraft when it hits a pebble. Insofar as c-fractional bombardment
>> of major worlds is concerned, take a look at websites for Earth which
>> show all the sat's we have in orbit now. Trying to c-fractional strike
>> a planet is virtually guaranteed to hit a cubesat.
>> 2) I stole from "Elite Dangerous" the idea of gravitational
>> interaction with the drive. If an M-drive enters a significant gravity
>> well at over a certain magic speed depending on angle and depth of
>> well, etc... well, canon says M-drives interact with gravity wells.
>> Hitting one at too high a speed is like hitting a pothole when
>> driving. At too high a speed, it's like driving into a ditch at 120
>> mph. The spacecraft is shredded.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 11:20 AM Kurt Feltenberger - kurt at
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>> > I was watching a video on Kuiper Belt Objects and they were talking
>> > about the distance they were from Earth and my mind thought, "It would
>> > be cool to have a 50t Cutter and pop down at JPL and say, 'Pick three
>> > things you want to explore, we'll be back in six weeks'."  Yeah...I have
>> > weird ideas.  Anyway...my mind wandered to one of the topics that ranks
>> > up there with p*rates...near-c objects.  We take it as a given that when
>> > traveling from point A to point C that the craft accelerates to point B,
>> > then decelerates to point C.
>> >
>> > Thus, if you have a 6G M-Drive you accelerate from A to B at 6G constant
>> > and then decelerate from B to C at 6G constant.
>> >
>> > But what if, in an attempt to prevent near-c objects, M-Drives had a
>> > governor that controlled relative velocity to the primary; that is, you
>> > may have a 6G drive but all that would do is allow you to accelerate to
>> > the system's maximum velocity in less time and then decelerate in an
>> > equally less amount of time.
>> >
>> > The governor would be similar to the transponder; something that's
>> > sealed and tampering with it would be an Imperial crime.
>> >
>> > And I hate to say it, but after thinking this through, it might give the
>> > p*rates a bit more opportunity...
>> >
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