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Reply Subj: Re: Under Part 5... Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 at 09:39:59 am EDT (Viewed 2 times) | |||||||
Quote: Squids hide. They send out big clouds of ink. Then they sting.And yet fishermen still manage to catch them and eat them so easily. Sharks are a lot more difficult. Whales and dolphins, while frowned upon for hunting, are also very expensive and difficult to catch. Quote: BALD are a scientific research villain outfit. They don't go for direct military conflicts - that'd be HERPES - so their methods and equipment are different. At least that's what I was reasoning when I wrote this story.I suppose that makes sense if you consider a giant squid as slightly more mobile than a fixed underwater base. Quote: Quote: To rule the seas, not the air, HERPES craft should at least be faster than anything out there. In an octopus, the U.S. or British Navy can simply chase them around the Atlantic until they run out of food and fuel.Quote: Sub-hunting is always dangerous though. Weird-science based underwater craft must be even harder to catch.That's actually a tactic, by the way, what I said above. The reason nuclear submarines were so important was that faster battleships came along, and they had a lot more room for fuel and food, and a lot more air than submarines. They could simply follow the sub around and harass it with depth charges until they were either too starved, too short of air, or too damaged to hide underwater any longer. Even with nuclear subs, the surface battleships can still wait them out as long as they can keep them on radar until they run out of food or are damaged. That's why nuclear subs are so focused on speed and evasion of radar - their only advantage. | |||||||
