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**The Reaper** · 02-20-2009, 09:56

I move that we take 40' cargo containers, make drop sides for them, install a Vulcan and a Mark 19 or two with several basic loads of ammo, tie them into the ship's radar, and put the containers with crews on board transiting ships with a squad or two of grunts for good measure.

Any small craft with hostile intentions approach, you power up, wait for them to get within range, drop the sides and light them up.

Anyone who survives, gets fragged and chummed.

We can install the loudspeakers on the Vulcan mount. Read them the resolution after the mad minute. Wouldn't want to violate any UN ROE.

After the first few weeks, you can put empty containers on the decks of every ship and let the wannabe pirates try the shell game, if there are any still alive and willing to come out to play.

TR

02-20-2009, 09:56	#6
The Reaper Quiet Professional Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Free Pineland Posts: 24,823	I move that we take 40' cargo containers, make drop sides for them, install a Vulcan and a Mark 19 or two with several basic loads of ammo, tie them into the ship's radar, and put the containers with crews on board transiting ships with a squad or two of grunts for good measure. Any small craft with hostile intentions approach, you power up, wait for them to get within range, drop the sides and light them up. Anyone who survives, gets fragged and chummed. We can install the loudspeakers on the Vulcan mount. Read them the resolution after the mad minute. Wouldn't want to violate any UN ROE. After the first few weeks, you can put empty containers on the decks of every ship and let the wannabe pirates try the shell game, if there are any still alive and willing to come out to play. TR __________________ "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910 De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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