Crazed idea for SJ -> Groundling combat

On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Michael Sandy wrote:

>
> For example, designing for wildspace combat with
> reverse gravity fighting decks can add a lot of
> area for weapons at a cost, being unable to land.
>

OK. What if you get a Reverse Gravity spell (expensive, yes, but still...)
placed on the bottom of the ship. What you then do is buzz over the
groundlings, low enough for them to be in effect of the spell. As soon as
that happens they will be pulled *up*, and in a couple of seconds later,
when the ship have passed by, they will fall down again and hit the ground
*hard*. One SJ ship could disorganise and rout an entire army this way.

Or what?

Traveling towards oblivion,

Truls Rostrup | ssptr@???.???.no | http://www.uib.no/People/ssptr

"The weapon is an icon of the the fact that civilisation is founded on the
possibility of murder or enslavement, of a bestiality more complex than
that of the beasts" - Thomas Pynchon