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>COA 3 involved a secondary, highly classified payload, an ultrashort pulse laser weapon, still high energy but much lower peak power, than the main Gigawatt laser. The ultrashort pulsed laser energy was compressed into a few femtoseconds, and far more efficient at drilling small but deep holes.
>The CONOP of COA 3 was to aim the pulse at the aft airlock on the PLA vessel, where they knew no people would be harmed. The weaponeer confirmed aim points and the pulse was unleashed upon Gen. Alighieri’s command, “Fire!”
>The airlock lost pressure. Vessel 20 wobbled as pilots attempted to stabilize it. While she could have destroyed the AAAF vessel, a small pin-prick hole drilled into a section of the spacecraft where they stored excess mining debris was escalation of aggression in proportion to the AAAF’s actions.
>”AAAF Vessel 20, you appear to be unsteady. Have you lost control after your waste dump?” Commander Alighieri asked in a deadpan tone to mask the sarcasm with which she asked for their status. She smiled, took a deep breath, and hung up. “See Mr. Cover, you have nothing to worry about.”

>T. Directed Energy Futures 2060
This was written by the chairforce dweebs in charge of determining how investments should be directed into DE technologies, based on a variety of projections on current and future developments of DE. It’s an official vignette to demonstrate what they believe a plausible future could look like and reflects their thinking RE: scalability, precision, deniability, and spess. It’s also super dorky. The other stories involve India using partial weapon sabotage devices built into Chinese switches to disable drone command centres in the Himalayas and Russia using a Mach10 hypersonic missile to assassinate the president because U.S. DE was underdeveloped