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Almost as importantly, these weapons are also completely ineffective against any targets at Earth's distance, or inside Earth's atmosphere, thus reducing any resulting escalation of tensions in the MAD-based Cold War between Earth and its orbital habitats. (Outside of the sheer existence of the Eichsfeldia colony itself, of course.)\n\nWhether these laser emitters can effectively defend the colony from other possible assaults, such as an unpowered kinetic missile launched from the hidden side of a planet... depends on a whole host of factors, and is an unanswered question.\n\nDrawn by Seth Triggs ( https://www.furaffinity.net/user/sethtriggs/ )\n", "description_bbcode_parsed": "Here we see Dee in mid-air, wearing her new prosthetic tentacles, and using them to connect extra runs of control cables between a two-ton free electron laser (ie, hard-science version of a big honking raygun) and its 60-megawatt fusion reactor.

The fusion reactor is based on Bussard's Polywell design. Dee and the Nakama have settled on a 60 megawatt output as being a standard for a bunch of things in the colony, to allow easier swapping in and out of power sources.

The main advantage of this laser over shipboard weapons is the 66-km-diamter asteroid itself, whose bulk can absorb massive quantities of heat, allowing the laser to fire continuously without overheating. The secondary advantage is that as a fixed emplacement, there are fewer limits on the mass, so the main emitter can be much broader, allowing for less beam divergence and thus a greater effective range.

In order to try to prevent easy counter-fire, the laser fires a beam down a tunnel to an adjustable set of mirrors, which redirect it to any one of a bunch of surface turrets; so if any one turret gets blasted, fire can shift to one of the others.

Since an important setting detail is There Ain't No Stealth In Space ( http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spaceward... ), a reasonably small number of such fixed artillery pieces tend to allow the colony to defend itself effectively against the usually-imagined sort of overt military assault. Almost as importantly, these weapons are also completely ineffective against any targets at Earth's distance, or inside Earth's atmosphere, thus reducing any resulting escalation of tensions in the MAD-based Cold War between Earth and its orbital habitats. (Outside of the sheer existence of the Eichsfeldia colony itself, of course.)

Whether these laser emitters can effectively defend the colony from other possible assaults, such as an unpowered kinetic missile launched from the hidden side of a planet... depends on a whole host of factors, and is an unanswered question.

Drawn by Seth Triggs ( https://www.furaffinity.net/user/sethtriggs/ )
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