And, to think about it, an anti-meteorite g*n is a scary thing, I really wouldn’t want to use it here. It’s one thing to flatten a cliff to make room for a landing pad or, say, to fill up a ravine to create an artificial lake, but firing on a living thing like that… Actually, has an AMG ever been used for defense? I think so. First, there was an incident, I can’t remember where, when a robot cargo ship lost control and was about to fall onto a campsite; they had to burn it. Then, I remember a case study; on a biologically active planet, a scout ship experienced a “direct insurmountable impact of the biosphere”… Well, it’s not clear whether it really happened, but the captain decided that it did and fired the forward g*n. He burned everything between himself and the horizon, so later
