From: nuny@bid.nes   
      
   On Sunday, March 19, 2017 at 7:54:49 AM UTC-7, MrAnderson wrote:   
   > So, while I am designing the spaceship for high tier interstellar warfare, I   
   > want to discuss the low end of spectrum in my setting, the "historical"   
   > vehicles used in wars when Arda expanded just in its system, not to other   
   > stars.    
   > I am thinking which drives would be used for these ships, pulsed nuclear,   
   > nuclear thermal or pulsed fission?   
      
     I concur with 0something0- pulsed nukes, I'd say either Orion-style with   
   specialized uranium nukes or fusion. Fusion would lead naturally to later   
   constant-flow fusion rockets.   
      
   > Also, I think what kind of weaponry could   
   > they use, when there are no lasers, railguns, PBWs etc. Some normal, naval   
   > guns? Or nukes?   
      
     Would they have developed naval guns in the first place, to want to adapt   
   the idea to spacecraft? They have loads of recoil, maybe just stick to   
   nuke-tipped missiles and maybe low-recoil gravel guns (precursors to   
   coilguns). I presume armor is also    
   much more primitive.   
      
      
     Mark L. Fergerson   
      
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