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This is the plot of part of the Timothy Zahn Admiral Thrawn Books (Last Command). He cloaks something like 30 small asteroids and puts them in orbit around a re
by jawilson2 5y ago
This is the plot of part of the Timothy Zahn Admiral Thrawn Books (Last Command). He cloaks something like 30 small asteroids and puts them in orbit around a rebel planet, but makes it appear like he might have released 100's. No one can enter or leave the planet until they are cleared, and they have no idea how many there are.
- uCantCauseUCant 5y agoThere is another book fallen dragon, were the descendants of a californian colony, "lock up the sky". Santa Chico is the name of the planet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Dragon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Dragon
- PeterisP 5y agoObviously people can enter or leave the planet as long as they're willing to take a risk of dying equal to [space covered by 100s random orbits] / [total surface of planet], which is nonzero but small. If you're launching straight up, thousands of such asteroids would leave you with 99% chance of success - the trouble is that with modern standards we generally don't consider 99% good enough - e.g. for space shuttle, 2 out of 135 crashed, getting almost 99%, and that's considered not ok; but if you really need to (as opposed to launches just for PR and science) then you can definitely get out of planet 90%+ of the time.