User blog comment:Tankswinger/The state of technology and influencing the wiki/@comment-27404954-20160815232245

Mace, I don't think you understand what space warfare would be.

BSCN is unbelievably unrealistic.

Real space warfare would be completely without humans, completely without more or less anything except ships, weaponry, and technology. And the technology, especially the AI technology, would be the most important of these all.

Here's a RP scenario if we took what IRL space warfare would be and put it into BSCN.

Ship A warps in and sees ship B.

Ship B instantly responds because of warp detection and vaporizes Ship A with a single lightspeed weapon blast before the AI on Ship A can react, even though the AIs are orders of magnitude faster than humans.

Ship C warps in and is also summarily destroyed by ship B.

Ships C through E warp in, and are all destroyed by ship B, but not before Ship E manages to fire off a shot at the exact time ship B fires off theirs, killing them both.

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That's real space warfare. No strategic gains are made. No characters are there. No action is there, no drama, no emotion. There are ships, and those ships attack each other.

Massive fleet battles are over in seconds, if that long.

Mutually Assured Destruction is not only still a thing, it is an accepted fact and necessity.

You have no idea quite how unrealistic BSCN is, Mace. Or the restrictions people need to put on themselves to stop RP ending totally.

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A random ANF engineer presses a button.

In a nearby star, a gamma ray burst is triggered, lethally irradiating and killing everything in the entire solar system within a fraction of a second.

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A random TEO engineer presses a button.

A memetic package is disseminated throughout the Internet. It adapts and expands in the space of moments to infiltrate most navies. Soon, that number becomes "all navies."

The TEO engineer presses a button again, and more or less all of human civilization embarks on a murder-suicide spree. Ships explode, friends and family murder each other, and civilization effectively ceases to exist in a state which can combat TEO. TEO immediately swoops in, and after a brief housecleaning period, takes over the solar system.

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And that's only the beginning.

You think this tech is bad? Von Neumann machines, the power of Grath, quantum vacuum bombs... I could go on for an entire page in Word.

Mace, Mace...

You have no idea, do you?