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bunker busting with mass drivers
Bunker busting, you say?
Aren't mass drivers more of a Nuke 'em to glass weapon, without all the radioactive fallout?
I suppose it really depends on the size, but it shouldn't be too hard to find a continent-buster rock, especially if you've got a powerful driver and are approaching on the "downhill" solar slope. You'd be glassing whole provinces at a time even with the more moderate rocks.
If you were just trying to destroy major cities and military bases, a capital ship laser (or fleet thereof) would have done the job conventionally, though it would take longer.
[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 21 November 2001).]