@Cerebrate
“…besides rolling a third of the colony’s minds back to the moment before land-down, if it’s indeed stellar radiation, solar storms, or whatnot, then it’s all the more reason to establish a shipyard, so that a
magnetic shield can be propped between the planet and sun; might even slowly terraform the planet into having a warmer climate too, what with buildup of greenhouse effects…”
“One issue to this however; I’d be concerned if there’s suborned defensive
killsats made by the 1st Wave drifting coldly in wait further out there in the system, just waiting for us to make a move like that, but on a sidenote though, I know at least the average stock designs of colony and habitat defense weapons can’t pierce atmospheres, let alone harm anything surface-side.”
“In close orbits, it’s usually neutral particle beam cannons that disperse upon hitting an exosphere, while in deep space, they tend to rely on what are essentially clouds of diamond pellets fired into the pathways of ships. Just sayin’…”
“Those second and third theories though almost sound like they’d be connected.”
“If they are, then there’s only one thing I can think of doing really, and it’s not simply giving up and leaving…
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