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May 26th, 2006, 11:13 PM
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Re: Philosophical scenario - A chance meeting
Easy solution.
Try to establish peaceful communications then, regardless of the results of the communication, leave as fast as you can. Don't head straight home, that'd be rather foolish. Instead, move out at a 60°-90° angle in relation to your world. Continue until you think you're out of his sensor range, then head off at another oblique angle, then another. When you're sure he can't see you, go home and prepare.
This of course presumes the other ship doesn't simply nuke you on sight!
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Re: Philosophical scenario - A chance meeting
Or follow you at the edge of his sensor range, presuming it to be larger than your sensor range.
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Re: Philosophical scenario - A chance meeting
Omnidirectional broadcast; contains all known facts, but no conclusions, of the encounter. Avaoid flavor. Pick a star at random that is between 30 and 150 degrees from your home star. Head towards it until you reach it, or run out of supplies. If you reach it, and find a settleable planet, start farming. If you reach it and there isn't such a planet, pick a different star along the same general line, within a few degrees, and head towards that.....
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Re: Philosophical scenario - A chance meeting
Board the ship, kill the crew, ransack her computers & then blow the ship to vapour. Then head home and start gearing up for war, or a 'chance' peaceful first contact if they happen to have a big ole empire.
Either that or turn around and run like hell. If they follow, they're hostile, if they don't they're not.
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Re: Philosophical scenario - A chance meeting
Yeah. Be insanely aggressive vs. what you can see. Let's hope they don't have any observers you don't know about that can report back about the insanely aggressive shoot on sight aliens they have to worry about......
Who saw which direction you left.....
Or managed to drop a nifty on the outside of your hull.....
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Re: Philosophical scenario - A chance meeting
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narf poit chez BOOM said:
Or follow you at the edge of his sensor range, presuming it to be larger than your sensor range.
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If their sensor range is that superior to our own, you can presume the rest of their technology would have a similar edge. If that's the case, you're screwed whatever you do if it comes to conflict. Peace might still be an option though!
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