Timeline for answer to Interstellar combat without instant FTL by user535733
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| Oct 7, 2020 at 8:28 | comment | added | ilkkachu | @Mark, well, or that, yes. (stupid me) | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 7:28 | comment | added | Sebastian Lenartowicz | @Mark You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. | |
| Oct 6, 2020 at 22:24 | comment | added | Mark | @ilkkachu, space is <s>an ocean</s> big. Just hide your <s>missile subs</s> planet-cracker bases out in the middle of nowhere, and you can be assured that a retaliatory strike will be launched. | |
| Oct 6, 2020 at 20:38 | comment | added | ilkkachu | Faster than light planet-crackers would also require some kind of FTL radar, otherwise they might make a reaally unstable stalemate. | |
| Oct 6, 2020 at 13:59 | comment | added | user535733 | Technology change or clever ship design might indeed shift two evenly matched sides among (1) (2) or (3). But notice how it rarely improves the final outcome. | |
| Oct 6, 2020 at 11:11 | comment | added | mlk | @parasoup To me the setup (long travel, next to no cryosleep) basically demands big generation ships, which would include their own production facilities. So a lot, if not all of the technological progress could be reproduced en route. In fact it might be a cost saving measure if one can convert some of the mass of the long-term systems no longer needed (e.g. food production) into weapons on final approach, instead of having to carry both. | |
| Oct 6, 2020 at 3:21 | comment | added | parasoup | Backing up the first possibility is technological advancement — by the time a fleet arrives, it'll be centuries behind the opponents and likely easily crushed. | |
| Oct 6, 2020 at 3:12 | history | answered | user535733 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |