In article <391B1588.3D9F7FA8@209software.com>, Bryan Valencia 
<bry### [at] 209softwarecom> wrote:

> Who needs lasers and torpedoes when you can just poke other ships to 
> pieces?

This reminds me of a story I read somewhere...I don't remember where, 
though it might have been by Asimov. There was a battle scene, and the 
defending ships had the usual laser weapons for normal use, but they 
also had a long, hard steel "needle" that they could extend. At a point 
where the battle was going pretty badly for them, these "needleships" 
extended the needle and rammed the enemy ships at high speed. As I 
remember, they did a very good job of destroying the enemy fleet(a 
strong pointed object with the momentum of an entire ship behind it...), 
even though the needle often could only be used once(they tended to 
break off or get stuck, and the ship could sustain damage in the 
ramming).
Of course, it wouldn't resemble this ship at all, I imagined it as a 
large solid spear-like object on a boom in front of the ship, maybe to 
one side.

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