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Old August 17th, 2001, 06:24 PM
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Default Re: The best weapons for a close combat ship?

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Even more than that, if the ship is designed from the beginning as a computer-controlled ship, who says it even has corridors or any other spaces for humans to enter?
Even a fully-automated ship is going to have maintenance accessways. If the ship is built and maintained entirely by robots, the robots will still tend to be as large or larger than the designing species for efficiency reasons.

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