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Old 09-May-2008, 08:29 PM
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Somebody--Niven, I think--has a story from the Man-Kzin Wars period where Earth wishes to land an agent on a Kzin-controlled human colony world.

So they accelerate their warship to some impressive fraction of c, and jump it to the edge of the target system. It hurtles through the system in a matter of hours on a cometary trajectory, whipping around the star and back out again, where it finally jumps to safety.

Along the way, it throws off a number of nukes and particle clouds, to deal with scrambling interceptors, shoot out sensor arrays scattered throughout the system, and cause general upheval and confusion in the defense organization. In the midst of all the hustle and bustle, they deliver a stealthy shuttlecraft to the colony planet's surface.
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