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>”Ok two can play at that game, weaponeers do you have the aim points to execute COA 3?” Gen Alighieri requested of her team.
>They had planned for an event like this. Course of action, or COA number 1 was to attempt to destroy all of the space debris with the gigawatt laser. Blasting the debris was no problem. The danger was that even a very small piece of debris moving at orbital velocities could shred the Deep Space Resources space craft. The success of COA 1 depended on accurately sensing millimeter sized pieces of debris, then aiming the laser well enough to divert the debris in a predictable way, all while not causing a worse debris problem.
>COA 2 was to fire upon the Allied Asian vessel with the Gigawatt laser weapon, which might destroy the ship. The spacecraft cannot outrun a laser, in deep space there is nowhere to hide, it was a sitting duck. Even if it took a few seconds to burn through the hardened hull of the space craft, the laser would eventually destroy the ship and set a terrifying precedent for future conflicts.