Tom York schrieb:

> >Space is so huge that interstallar
> >battle is too unlikely to be a realistic option, simply because you can not
> >find your opponent within a reasonable life expectance of only a few
> >thousand years.
>
> Depends on the assumptions we make. For instance,
>
> A) Depends on the speed of interstellar travel.
>
> B) Depends if life is going to concentrate around planetary systems (increased
>    likelihood of an encounter between ships) or spread out evenly.
>

I think, most of future space warfare beyond the Solar System would
happen
to be internecine fighting within one civilization, as technologically
advanced
civilizations capable of interstellar travel, according to our present
knowledge,

probably are too rare and too widely scattered across the Galaxy to even
know of each other, not to mention physical encounters.

This considerations make me toy with some until now very embryonic
sci-fi scenario: Pashtun tribes colonizing the larger moons of an
extrasolar
gas giant, around 1800 AD, during the settling process centuries-old
fractions among them break up, and finally we have the famous-infamous
feud between the Achakzai and the Nurzai, now taking place on
Ghurghusht,
the largest, almost Earth-sized moon of Qais, itself largest planet of
the Shams
system (also known as DM +19 279)... wouldn't be that a thrilling
concept
for the Internet Movie Project?

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

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