The Space War Thread

[Montegriffo]

Parliament is supreme, as it ever was and always will be.
Farage fled into hiding in Germany once the first shot was fired. Boris shot himself in the face when larking about with a loaded rifle. Rees Mogg fought to the last man in his Knightsbridge Fortress and only gave himself up when his nanny was killed by a sniper whilst filling his bath.
Rory Stewart then unites the country under a government of national unity drawn from all parties.
Brexit is given another extension.
In the meantime, Brittania draws on its maritime history and becomes the most successful space pirates in the asteroid belt. A protection racket on all mineral mining.
The Royal Space Force benefits from the massive amounts being made from the colony in the richest part of the belt.
The RSF is small but at the cutting edge of technology with some of the best-trained forces out there. Brittania has the doomsday bomb and is still on the security council.

[Smitty-48]

Parliament is supreme, as it ever was and always will be.
Farage fled into hiding in Germany once the first shot was fired. Boris shot himself in the face when larking about with a loaded rifle. Rees Mogg fought to the last man in his Knightsbridge Fortress and only gave himself up when his nanny was killed by a sniper whilst filling his bath.
Rory Stewart then unites the country under a government of national unity drawn from all parties.
Brexit is given another extension.
In the meantime, Brittania draws on its maritime history and becomes the most successful space pirates in the asteroid belt. A protection racket on all mineral mining.
The Royal Space Force benefits from the massive amounts being made from the colony in the richest part of the belt.
The RSF is small but at the cutting edge of technology with some of the best-trained forces out there. Brittania has the doomsday bomb and is still on the security council.

They wouldn't call it the RSF, that's too American style

Britannia is a slave to tradition, it will still be the RN in space. HMS Enterprise.

[Montegriffo]

HMS Ark Royal with her escort ships patrolling the colonies and privateers grabbing the odd prize on the side.

[Smitty-48]

HMS Ark Royal with her escort ships patrolling the colonies and privateers grabbing the odd prize on the side.

The British Army and Royal Air Force remain the defenders of the UK, Home Service Force.

The arm of decision in space is as it ever was, the Royal Navy

British space troops are all Royal Marine Commandos.

There will however be an Special Air Service Space Warfare Wing.

[Smitty-48]

Furthermore, when the Crown conducts piracy, it's called Privateering,

Those ships would not actually be RN, the Privateers would be private.

Likely owned by the banks. Lloyds and Barclay's competing head to head.

In terms of the British colonies, it's Hong Kong in space, open ports to all, centers of trade.

With Space Gurkha's to maintain order.

[Montegriffo]

Furthermore, when the Crown conducts piracy, it's called Privateering,

Those ships would not actually be RN, the Privateers would be private.

In terms of the British colonies, it's Hong Kong in space, open ports to all, centers of trade.

With Space Gurkha's to maintain order.

In space, no one can hear you getting your ears cut off by Ghurkas.

[Smitty-48]

Furthermore, when the Crown conducts piracy, it's called Privateering,

Those ships would not actually be RN, the Privateers would be private.

In terms of the British colonies, it's Hong Kong in space, open ports to all, centers of trade.

With Space Gurkha's to maintain order.

In space, no one can hear you getting your ears cut off by Ghurkas.

Once you are actually inside of a habitat, you can't use firepower, only intimidation, hence why GR's

It's not safe to use guns, and of course the Crown would prohibit them

so the GR's would be in riot gear with bamboo batons.

[Montegriffo]

Back to nice old fashioned low heat weapons to avoid the sensors. Knives and bows.

[Smitty-48]

Back to nice old fashioned low heat weapons to avoid the sensors. Knives and bows.

The GR's will open with the Shaku's, if that fails, last resort is the Kukri's.

[Smitty-48]

See this is where it gets fun, because you can't actually have gunfights in habitats.

The bullets would keep going right through the hull, decompression.

Thus, all urban warfare in space is hand to hand.

Conversely, on planetary colonies, gunfights are not only feasible, but with low g in thin atmosphere, the guns are exponentially longer ranged and more powerful without significant degradation of muzzle velocity.

Hence why the Spacemerican Cowboys pack big bore revolvers.

.44 magnum packs more punch on Mars, and the gun itself is feather lite.

Don't forget your spacesuit is AI, so it comes with a fire control system, allowing you to take sniper shots with sidearms, no need for a bulky rifle.

The maximum range of a .44 magnum round on Mars would be well over 100 kilometers. If you had AI to calculate the trajectory, you could actually use a hand gun like artillery, indirect fire.

If you had something the size of an M203 grenade launcher, say with a micro nuke warhead, that would be like a 16 inch howitzer on a battleship.

Also note the effects of blast fragmentation, the shrapnel goes out for kilometers too.

There's a tendency to invent all sorts of exotic weapons in the sci fi genre, but in many cases the weapons for use on earth are massively more effective in lower gravity and thinner atmosphere.