Tetsubo wrote:
> Sea Wasp wrote:
>> You tell them they can't come in. If they initiate force to GET
>> in, you stop them. How do you stop people from coming into your house
>> uninvited? You don't let them in. If they try to force their way in,
>> you may use force back.
>>
> What happens when they vastly out number you? I can't see the Gulch
> having a standing army. And a militia is not the same thing as a
> standing army. I like the idea of the Gulch, don't get me wrong. I just
> can't see it be a practical achievement. I think the best chance at
> something like this working would be to put it on an island. If people
> can walk in, they will. In numbers that the Gulch can't absorb.
>
Well, by the postulates of the AS world, the people can try to walk
in, but they can't use engines to do so (absent access to the Galt
Motor) because the screen will stop the engines dead. Galt's people
have weapons, and if it became a problem could probably build some
REALLY nasty ones. They're in a mountain range which is not easy to
walk through; it's not easily accessible that way.
And again by AS postulates, the outsiders who would try to FORCE
their way in are unlikely to have the brainpower and skill to figure
out ways to neutralize the advantages of the Gulch.
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