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		pdonis 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dr John C. Clark, a scientist who disarmed atomic ... > They are lightspeed weapons, no leading your target or the like. The speed of light is still finite, so a lightspeed weapon still has to lead its target by some amount.

LorenPechtel 3 months ago [–]

Yeah, but we are talking ground combat. Lightspeed lag is not going to matter.

pdonis 3 months ago | [–]

> we are talking ground combat

I'm not familiar with the books, but I have a very hard time believing that the simple presence of lightspeed weapons would make all forms of combat other than ground combat obsolete.

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