Silly, evil trick?

[Taqwus]

Can one examine a ship's design before accepting it as a gift? If not, one might be able to...

1. Prepare a space yard ship and a minelayer. The minelayer should be well-loaded.

2. Move them to some out-of-the-way location.

3. Drop mines.

4. Build a really, really expensive ship. Without engines or minesweeping devices. Stellar Manipulation components should be good for driving up the cost. Note that you can build this, with engines, elsewhere and move it; it'll be faster building, but you'll have to pay maintenance while it's in transit if you do this.

5. Give it to some unsuspecting rival.

After 4 turns or so, it'll start costing your rival more than it cost you in the first place thanks to the high maintenance cost. And it'll keep costing, until that minefield is finally swept so that the ship can be repaired, analyzed or destroyed. Since it'll probably mean war ;-), you might have a cloaked fleet lurking about for once the field looks about to be depleted...


ObSillyQuestion:

If a Rock/None race builds an Atmosphere Modifier on a Gas Giant planet, what happens? It probably shouldn't be a Gas/None...

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