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Old 01-18-2012, 09:57 PM   #127
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Originally Posted by Ekaros View Post
The space combat I loved the solution in one novel, just pump the route of spaceship full of "cannon balls", easily made by melting metal in 0G and then launching. Kinetic weapons are cool, other one was Heinlein with throwing some rocks, quite big ones, from the moon...

I wish they would be used more often...
The Lost Fleet series use kinetic rounds "grape shot" to batter down enemy ship[s shields.
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