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Biohazard
Apr 17, 2002

Pope Hilarius II posted:

Not so sure a military ship would look like ISS though since it would probably also need some type of armour and isolation to survive smaller skirmishes.....

Which is why it wouldn't really make sense to have military ships in space, at least not the way we think of them. The reality is that the better method in space would just be to stay really far away from everyone else, as getting anything like armor into space is just to "expensive" (in terms of energy cost). You'd need a pretty massive leap forward in getting stuff off of earth in order to have armored ships. Or I guess you could do space mining, but the logistics of that seem pretty far off. Even then you have the problem of adding mass, which means you just need that much more energy to move stuff. Space is a real bitch.

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