[TML] War rules

[Knapp]

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> Then too, at *some* point you must being on a course that will take you
> down.  That's the whole point of landing.  So such a "miss rule" would need
> minimum speed and distance at which it counts.
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Exactly, at some point the vector is safe or at least as safe as it can be
but other vectors are death to the planet. It was said that they explosion
is small compared to the planet but that really depends on the vector.
Someone really large and well armored, thrusting at 6gs right at the planet
for a long distance so that they can drop bombs with minimum exposure might
really damage a planet. This would be a war crime. Other vectors fall into
the acceptable risk category.

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

1. Sun Tzu said: Raising a host of a hundred thousand
men and marching them great distances entails heavy loss
on the people and a drain on the resources of the State.
The daily expenditure will amount to a thousand ounces
of silver. There will be commotion at home and abroad,
and men will drop down exhausted on the highways.
As many as seven hundred thousand families will be impeded
in their labor.

2. Hostile armies may face each other for years,
striving for the victory which is decided in a single day.
This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's
condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred
ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height
of inhumanity.