In article <3c6d9f63$1@news.povray.org>, "Hugo" <hua### [at] post3teledk> 
wrote:

> The ship is nice, but I disagree with that statement. The ship I am planning
> on paper, does not have any weapons really.. I definetely think it's
> unnecessary

If you have a ship capable of interstellar travel, the ship itself would 
make a very good weapon...just accelerate towards the target, drop a few 
small objects out the airlock, and change velocity so the ship itself 
misses the target. Or just abandon ship. ;-)

Even a small mass, like a piece of silverware, would have a huge amount 
of kinetic energy if it is travelling at a significant percentage of c. 
An entire ship going that speed...big boom.

And all this assumes the drive that pushes the ship is useless as a 
weapon...a stream of hot, near-lightspeed ions might actually work 
pretty well.

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Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom>
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