MTN Dew Fanatic wrote...
smudboy wrote...
Sparda Stonerule wrote...
I think calling my contrived properties is pretty arrogant since you are saying contrived things like "Something like it exists so it could exist". Everyone knows that in order to control yourself in space you need a corrective propulsion system. Without it you would drift any which way forever and never be able to stay put. I didn't make that up. You made up that "since something with the word "mine" in it exists something that has a different properties but still has "mine" in the name should exist."
Then comm buoys have a corrective propulsion system. As do probes. And hazard beacons. And other said small remote devices.
We're talking technicalities on a thing that already exists, or things that have properties that do the same operation have the functionality, which is no large stretch in technology. Nor is it a large step in the game play of a ship that can upgrade itself and various other devices (let alone perform medical procedures at the click of a button.) Even if there were space mines with proper propulsion or whatever technical detail you're aruging, you'd then be arguing "but there are no nuclear mines" or mines that have a proper detonation radius, and a bunch of small technicalities which are not beyond the scope of the technology.
First you propose using improvised mines, now you're saying that there can be mines of sufficient blast radius, proper propulsion, and can be spread across kilometres. All the while being much easier than the plan with Shepard and his team.
I don't really care about the technicalities or details of mines. You guys seem to. It seems to be this massive argument on your side simply because you can't fathom the existence of a minefield, or the logistics of building mines, or that mines wouldn't exist, or how many there should be, or how to retrofit a probe, etc. Or even the possibility of constructing mines. This is not my problem. This is the equivalent of whether or not peanut butter and jelly sandwiches exist in the ME universe.
The technology exists in various forms that would do exactly what the operation of a mine would do. In fact, mines already do exist, just not at the scale you think would be sufficient for them to exist, as well as with proper details.
The argument I'm making isn't for mines per se; that's just my interpetation of the course of action for staking out the omega-4 relay.
Staking out the relay is simpler than the nonsensical plan TIM has Shepard do (getting people.) Whether you're building mines, comm buoys, spy satellites, camping the relay, etc., that doesn't really matter. It's actually taking that choice that matters, that the narrative doesn't do, which makes it a plot hole.
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