Sea Wasp wrote:
> Tetsubo wrote:
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>> Sea Wasp wrote:
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>>> 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.
Never underestimate stupid people in large numbers.
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Tetsubo
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