[B5JMS] Why the Station's Fate Still Doesn't Make Sense (spoilers I

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From: florinaldo <florinaldo at videotron.ca>
Date: 10 Mar 2001 06:36:00 -0700
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The one thing that never made sense to me was that by blowing up the
station, you create and disperse all that debris which then becomes a muc=
h
greater hazard to navigation than one big chunk.  Costs for recovering th=
at
chaff would be prohibitive since it is being sent in all directions by th=
e
explosion (conveniently missing the part of space from where the observin=
g
ships are watching).

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Florinaldo


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> 1) Remember that this was the cheapest of all the B5 stations, it wasn'=
t built
> to last forever.
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> 2) You'd have to go through that thing and pull out literally tens of m=
iles of
> computer equipment, sensors, records, and other material before you cou=
ld sell
> it to anybody.  Not to mention all the remaining weapons systems.
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> 3) It's now like a town bypassed by the railroad...the IA now does most=
 of
> what
> B5 was intended to do.  So as Zack says, nobody comes there anymore.  T=
he cost
> to maintain it in the lack of supporting business is heinous in the ext=
reme.
> So do you set guards to something that nobody uses anymore?  Pay all th=
e money
> to pull out all the classified stuff you don't want removed intact by s=
alvage
> operations?
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> Or do you just spend a few bucks to blow it up, the way folks blow up o=
ld
> buildings now?
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> jms
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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 10 Mar 2001 16:32:44 -0700
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>The one thing that never made sense to me was that by blowing up the
>station, you create and disperse all that debris which then becomes a muc=
>h
>greater hazard to navigation than one big chunk

Except of course that nobody much goes by there anymore to begin with, which is
one of the main reasons for blowing it up, and 80% of the debris would be
pulled down by the local planet's gravity field and burn up the atmosphere.

 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
(all message content (c) 2001 by synthetic worlds, ltd., 
permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine 
and don't send me story ideas)