On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Ken Koester wrote: > Philip Hart wrote: > > >On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Ken Koester wrote: > > > > > > > >>Oh? How about random hit squads teleporting into your camps, > >> > >setting off the motion-sensor arrays, and being blasted to little > >bits? > > > Along with your troops & all your gear. Laser batteries? computer-driven rifles? Anyway, a teleporting enemy would just lob in a bomb. > >inhaling the camps' tailored viruses and keeling over? > > No virus could work that fast. And sorcery could cure anything you came > up with. No one has managed to make a living at biowar yet I take it you're talking present-day tech. I don't know if sorcery would be trivially useful against a sufficiently cleverly designed virus - presumably the spell would have to inspect all the victim's DNA for a recognized sequence. > Of course, if you want to posit Culture-class technology, complete with > knife missles, effector weapons, gridfire, & nano-assassins. . . . Well, I earlier claimed that a space-faring civilization is likely to have military tech beyond what's in our R&D labs.