issue to watch: Death of a ship - "Mintakas sword"
5Gamma5624 concerns. Within a split second freeze the escaping gases and liquids to a glittering cloud, which - spreads in a vacuum - mixed with other microscopic matter fragments. If a star or other light source nearby, the sparkle is a few moments to see with the naked eye, then have the particles too far apart to allow sufficient light to reflect from each other. What remains, depending on the ship or type of weapon debris fields or heat and other forces of grotesquely deformed fragments ... and all too often many unanswered questions.
images of a diamond sparkling cloud of gases and debris that are torn apart the hull the "Mintakas sword" are spreading in recent days gone again by the media. The xylene battleship came to akane Station time 12:23:58, 3 Gamma 5624, in the outer peripheral sector of the interstellar space port Akano 7 and was destroyed by fire within 4.9 seconds of the preceding customs station 2. On the heavy cruiser, there were 374 persons occupation. There was no warning, it is not, according to the usual approach of the space station. The reason? The battleship should have approached the station, without secure its weapons before - and in enforcing this provision, the Akan traders have never taken half-measures.
ceasefire by armed force
"On Akano 7 there has always been absolute and no exemptions weapons ban," said Darrian Andinea, spaceport Minister and CEO of the station. "This is not only portable weapons such as Blaster and hand phaser, but also ship weapons of any kind who can turn his weapons systems not seal ourselves and what we experience in small boats quite often has the opportunity to ask our experts - even at very short notice, so directly in the approach. The pressing need for an uncompromising attitude on this point is clear. Akano 7 is open to all nations without exception and every ship. ideology and politics, even armed conflicts, we can at the door. The station serves the commercial, no ifs and buts. And to make such a trade center in practice is possible, must be enforced in our area, the absolute cease-fire -. Denote no ifs and buts "
The destruction of ships by Akano to 7 as a routine would be excessive, but is a rarity, it . also does not Four solar months, the Transporter "Veve" approaching destroyed the station because his Medrin torpedoes were demonstrably not secured properly in the course of the last akane fiscal year, a total of three ships blown up by the customs stations;. the year before was it two
"Rhoninrot.": The Freal Squadron
Most such incidents are - apart from their deadly end - not spectacular. Computer failure and human error are the most common causes of active too long lasting weapon systems; aggressive intentions are the exception. The end of the so-called "Freal Squadron, an elite task force rhonischer mercenaries, stands out for its drama. The award-winning, inter alia, the feature film "Rhoninrot" apprehended in the second incident Jallarna war followed the infamous squadron a schooner in the Mirck neutral Akano-7 station area - and was destroyed by customs posts and customs interceptors in no time. The previous in the Fray hard-ailing Mirck schooner had disabled their few remaining functional arms in time and sealed. She stepped in again soon after the fighting in neighboring Jallarna sector one - after the battle damage in the shipyards of Akano 7 had been resolved.
Experimental weapon or trigger-inch mouse?
What triggered in the case of "Mintakas sword" of the deadly bombing? As might be expected to go to different opinions.
According Akano 7, the sensor data at the customs post on the "Mintakas sword before their destruction, a shedded, but active positron wave weapon system type unknown demonstrated. "'Mintakas sword' has violated the station order by itself Akano 7 has approached with activated weapon systems. More is on the incident not to say," said Cara Raban, Customs Minister of Akano and highly decorated ex-admiral, in typical candid Art " Anyone who flies Akano 7 agrees to the terms and conditions before the station - even 'Mintakas sword' has done, the sensors registered the violation, and Customs has responded in accordance with terms "..
The Councils of Xyl - site eloquently represented by the captain of the "Mintakas" sister ship "Alnilam Hammer" - see things differently. "There's a monstrous, foul play," rants Naimai Setlas, an experienced military commander. "'Mintaka' was identical to 'Alnilam' and still have saved us the Bordbewaffung. The sensor data of the 'Alnilam' demonstrate the clear. Captain Rihasvitri was born in space, he knew his ship in and out. He has all the rule in question. These people have no reason opened fire! Nearly 400 good, honest people are senselessly killed because it is a vacuum-headed akane inch mouse has itched on the index finger. This is a tragedy and a scandal. Apparently, our sensor data wrong, but what about contact the data of the customs station? That may well be erroneous, probably think of anyone. One must not calculate the size donated when they start sensors to register impossible things! "
A ship bound positron system would indeed be a landmark new development, but certainly not as unthinkable as captain Setlas suggests. Since the exact records of the station sensors - like the debris analysis - the customs secrecy and can not be viewed any, the discussion mutate at this point, however, to pure speculation can be considered as further evidence if necessary, that the data from both the akane Commercial Court and the aginbargadischen system attendant were disclosed.. Both courts have confirmed the view of the space station and the actions of the Customs station expressly declared to be lawful.
After the end
that it is the destruction of the ship to premeditated murder or an unprovoked act of war, has never said one heat at all; Xyl Akano 7 before throwing "only" sensor error and negligence. Legal or military consequences of this were never threatened, even by the so desperately ereifernden Naimai Setlas. Some political commentators have since expressed the impression Xyl BeZet his role as an innocent victim just loud enough to be heard in the interstellar public - but not so loud that the noise Akano 7 not good to hear. While Xyl continue on the innocence of the "Mintaka" insists and so the existence of any experimental positron weapons from points far to the matter at Akano 7 is considered as done for a long time. Once the debris removed, and all flight paths were fully usable, returned the day again. The cost of weapons use, clearance and the necessary diversions has provided seven Akano the xylene in the council account for all terms and conditions. And the bill must be paid, because "Alnilam Hammer" still docked at the station, and the trade of other xylene ships also goes its course undisturbed.
What remains A security: Nearly 400 people are dead, died in a sparkling cloud of ice and light. Whether they are the rashness of a akane inch mouse fell victim to shoot even once on a live target was, or - which seems likely - the arrogance of xylene naval staff, was to ensure that the prototype of a newly developed weapon concealed self-art sensors would remain: on the death of these people does not change anything.
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Background:
spaceport Akano 7 - civilian space station in the solar orbit around the star S755366-B6-VC (also called "Sol Akano") Aginbargad sector. Takes its name used as an interstellar space station port to the fact that it is in solar orbit in seventh place - far outside the planet Akano and other natural satellites of the star. Akano 7 is a holistic property of the Government of the planet Akano (->
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) and is administered by a spaceport Minister nominated by the People's Tribunal akane in a direct line. The station is a traffic hub in the sector Aginbargad. Its importance as a transshipment point for trade in goods of all species extends far beyond the sector.
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