The Honor Harrington series says you just forgot to make them “bomb-pumped”, then they’ll work. Glory to the Kingdom of Manticore. If it’s really a classically liberal, benevolent, monarchical, capitalist Utopia, why doesn’t everyone just move there? There seem to be many billions of people in the galaxy who absolutely don’t want to live there.
Drone mounts a mirror.
Melt the mirror. Who the fuck does it think it is anyways, shiny things don’t belong in the sky.
Retroreflect back to source. Blows up source.
Ok, so use a combo shot with a maser. If the light beam doesn fry the outside, the microwave beam will fry the inside.
Put a piece of metal behind the mirror.
SHORAD mounts a better mirror
The reflections make the laser grow in intensity between bounces (source: cartoons)
Eventually the laser burns through the shitty drone mirror, mission accomplished
Next thing you know it’s mirrors all the way down.
The Honor Harrington series says you just forgot to make them “bomb-pumped”, then they’ll work. Glory to the Kingdom of Manticore. If it’s really a classically liberal, benevolent, monarchical, capitalist Utopia, why doesn’t everyone just move there? There seem to be many billions of people in the galaxy who absolutely don’t want to live there.
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