Talk:United Aerospace Command/@comment-11135771-20141201151645/@comment-11135771-20141201211533

Part of the cloud was deflected from its trajectory by the tractor beam by enough to miss Ceres completely. However, the cloud was much too large for a single ship to remove much of it, being over 2000km in average diameter. Most of it continued on its course, the bulk of the cloud mostly shielded from missiles by the less dense field of ice surrounding it.

OOC: So for clarity:

- Prometheus is using cloaked ships, filling their cargo holds with water from Neo-Earth, and then accelerating to gigh speed along an intercept trajectory with Ceres while spraying the water (which then freezes).

- The clouds of ice, if they impact, won't really do much to Ceres itself. The colony is deep enough and sufficiently armored that very little will happen to it if it gets hit. Ships however will mostly likely take moderate to severe damage if they get hit.

- The cloud is moving at ~50km/s, which is pretty fast. To have any chance of getting a missile into the cloud, you'll have to match velocity and heading with it, or else the missile will probably explode on the outer cloud.

- You have around two days, RP time, before the cloud reaches Ceres (well, probably more like 1.5 now).