Re: Clone Armies in Trek

Joseph Nebus wrote:

> Graham Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > Mike Dicenso wrote:
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> > > Because a wheel and suspension vehicle is not prone to any weird
> > > technobabble particle of the week, or whatever that will cut power to the
> > > hovercraft/flying cars' antigravity propulsion and cause it to fall, and
> > > be destroyed.
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> > Nor does it put out radiation/particles which can be detected
> > by every enemy scanner within a thousand kilometres.
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> 	Given that in the 23rd century it's possible (if difficult) to 
> pin down a single entity on the planet from orbit, and in the 24th it's 
> quite easy to do so, it's not that much more camouflage not to use the 
> centuries-old magic flying gadgets out there, though.  

We don't really know that. For one thing, combat troops
could have stealth uniforms or jamming of some sort for
biosigns - we've seen that kind of thing many a time.
But lighting up an agrav unit might be like sending up
a flare for all we know.

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Graham Kennedy

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