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  • It would depend on if the deflector shields in Star Wars work to disrupt transportation or not. (Also on phasers.)

    Also the kind of effects ion weapons would have.

    Also the empire was never meant to actually be a competent military. Their vehicles are designed for terror, not practicality. Their pilots and infantry are all incompetent and mass produced.

    In short they were actually designed to fail.

    In any case, there’s too many assumptions that have to be made to put them in the same universe and that’s going to go which ever the way the judges want it to go.

    I just fantasize about Miles having several thousand torps just transport in a cloud and zip off to eagerly suicide into something - and Kira’s snark, or maybe just have her glare with a twitchy eyebrow.







  • Loved the idea of it. The execution left something to be desired.

    Would have loved to see miles, Dax, and Worf pull something like the Delta flyer, only to become the Defiant, though.

    But really only as long as Miles gets to weaponize the transporter.

    (I wonder how many torps a cargo transporter could drop off just outside the hull. Imagine dumping entire holds of the things only to replicated them again. Especially doing so from cloak.)

    (I can hear the naysayers being like “but thebtorpedos wouldn’t have a starting velocity!”… ask how people get transported onto planets without going splat into the nearest vertical surface.)


  • Why do they gotta turn the plane around?

    FTA:

    However, moments before departure, the flight’s crew discovered that the woman had died. The aircraft was forced to return before it had even departed the tarmac, with the journey from Spain to Gatwick eventually postponed by 12 hours. Travellers claimed the dead woman had been taken to towards the rear of the aircraft in a wheelchair before she was hoisted into her seat with assistance from five family members.

    so. first off, the plane had never taken off by the time they had found her dead.

    Even then, the flight was from Spain to the UK, so jurisdiction matters. if she died on the plane (which is what Easyjet says) she still died in spanish territory. And if she died before they boarded… well… that’s probably something they want to look into.












  • Didn’t have to be, though, now did it?

    Just the ones in the right place at the right time. You don’t need to have an entire organization on board to control and minimize the risks. That is why, for example, Epstein targeted as many politicians as he has. He wasn’t catering to their every whim because it was profitable, it was protection.

    Not just politicians, either. Leaders in agencies, the people in the right places at the right time. So that when it finally came to it, he got that sweetheart deal where he basically just used Club Fed as a hotel. And you’ll notice that Maxwell is getting the same treatment?