The Two General's Problem

ThinksMarkedly wrote:I don't think any streak drive tactical advantages will come to pass. It may yet prove to have a tactical capability in some scenario, aside from a faster communications loop over long distance. But it won't be an advantage because the GA will have streak drives too.

Herlander Simões didn't know much about the spider driver, other than the name. But he was a hyperspace physicist working on the streak drive. And we know the secret to cracking the kappa and iota bands was simply brute force, so that's not an insurmountable engineering effort either. Knowing that it's possible (and they'd have known that from Firebrand too) is 90% of the work.

tlb wrote:It seems reasonable to expect that Galton even has assembly lines for the streak drive and the 3 second graser, which the GA has now captured along with a lot of documentation about them and things like the biological nanites.

tlb wrote:It seems reasonable to expect that Galton even has assembly lines for the streak drive and the 3 second graser, which the GA has now captured along with a lot of documentation about them and things like the biological nanites.

ThinksMarkedly wrote:Simões arrived on Manticore two years ago, from the end of TEiF.

tlb wrote:I agree that they could have created a streak drive of their own based on what he knows. Also, since he was a crucial member of the team that was working to improve the streak drive, it might even be better. But it cannot hurt to have additional documentation and a working assembly line; particularly since he might be more theoretical than practical.