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Das Wall Street.

Except that we're seeing Cops pulling out their night sticks and laying the beatdown on the argumentative - or shooting them. Mr Policeman wants to give Mr. Loudmouth a piece of his mind? No problem. He wants to shoot Mr. Loudmouth? Major problem.

Not as big as I'd figured, but still deadly to anything not shielded by Kilometers of atmosphere. Still, if you possess the power to attain .25c, I doubt there's much stopping the attainment of significantly higher velocities.

Actually, I suspect that hitting atmosphere at that speed would be like hitting a brick wall. At any significant percentage of C, the entire object would flash to energy, primarily heat, virtually instantaneously. It would be like a nuke blast, but many orders of magnitude more intense. Anything in visual range of the impact point would burned off instantly, and the shockwave would cave in that side of the planet. Look at what happened in the Tunguska Event. The object never made it to earth - it probably exploded when it hit the lower atmosphere - but it devastated a huge region of Siberia.

I think that depends on what sort of effect you want. Stargates of some kind help restrict where people can be - you can't just grab a ship and go off into the uncharted reaches when the local mob or local law want your head. On the other hand, it also restricts some of the stories you can tell - unless your PCs are specialists in exploration employed to expand the network, you won't be able to run a "First Contact" scenario anywhere near as easily.

Love the purple-haired woman with the beret bluffing her opponents while she bugs out - pins aren't pulled.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEEWaBqd-_g

Black Tempter, the Silencer of the Living!

I prefer the smoots drive from the old Marvel series Open Space. (Something similar is used in the Flandry universe). It's a teleport drive, but only one smoot at a time - the distance across of a hydrogen atom. To generate apparent FTL speed, you just make a lot of jumps very, very fast - make your drive fast enough and your ship seems to be moving through space faster than light, in normal space but with no acceleration or velocity. Space to space combat is impossible in Open Space - the outmatched ship(s) just turn away and they're instantly half a light year from you.

Not sure they really stuck their noses into this problem at all. The Organians tried not to get involved. They ignored the Klingon occupation more or less, specifically asked Kirk and Spock not to do anything, didn't really seem to care about the outside war...until the squabbling children finally shoved it all in their faces with actions they could not ignore. THEN they resolved the problem as they saw it. They weren't doing it for the Feds or the Klingons - just so that they wouldn't be annoyed by this any longer.

Ah? I thought that was just a model difference.

No link, a friend of mine has had nothing but trouble with his. Still, could well just be a lemon example - most of the reviews seem positive. I actually prefer a lighter calibre gun for FA fire (not that I get to all that often) as I'm not that big a guy and I have control issues with heavier rounds and recoil.

To be perfectly honest, I'd rather go for the original Czech model Skorpion. Smaller, battle-tested design, and I understand significantly more reliable.

The project itself is probably too late (I largely feel the pulps are pre-war) but most of those working on it did interesting stuff in the 1930s or even '20s.

Polydichloric Euthimol. It can be an explosive, an amphetamine-like drug, a fuel source, or anything else needed by the plot!

Defender Protector Guardian Scutum Horatius

But now I look to the stars, with an ache in my heart, for the man who rocked the world is going home. I want to hear one more song, oh let the music live on, the man who rocked the world is going home.

Sorry to hear about your problems. I'd recommend something uplifting and hopeful - The Martian definitely counts, especially if you haven't seen it yet. That said, I completely agree with your review - The Lost Patrol is a masterpiece.

The Martian. Loved it, though I would have liked a few more of the problems that occur in the book to have made it into the film,.

Allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth, and taste.

Take a pinch of white man Wrap it up in black skin Add a touch of blue blood And a little bitty bit of red Indian boy Hmmmm Curly black and kinkies If you lump it all together Well you got a recipe for a get along scene Oh what a beautiful dream If it could only come true, you know, you know

Don't ask me to pray to Jesus I've never met the man I only meet weekend preachers Pictures of the promised land All the new holy saviors Who pretend to understand Who do you think will save you Modern day beggar man

That latter is notable in the Vorkosigan books by Bujold. Ivan Vorpatril, a secondary character in many of the books (and the main one in one), notes at one point that the first rule of stunner tag is shoot everybody. You can always apologize and offer a headache tablet to any friendlies. Adnantage #5 : No firing hesitation. All but the most hardened or well trained personnel will probably hesitate before taking a life. Stun shot? No need to worry about it!

Joseph Greenstein, The Mighty Atom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Greenstein http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=651068116795 'Nuff said.