3.3.4. Are the Biota Shield, Mass Driver, and Anti-Meteor Gun
effective?
According to M. Lewchuk, ``Build one. [Mass
Driver] It's resource consumption is
laughable.'' The Anti-Meteor Gun is only useful
on Ares, when Gamma1 tries bombarding as it
flies by on its way to Beta Caeli, although I
suppose one could avoid that by blowing Gamma1
up before it gets close enough.

I think that the Biota Shield are effective.
You would certainly not be able to keep any
colonies on Gaea and Rhea without them. True,
you keep losing things, but they tend to be
minor losses (except the vehicles), in my
opinion. You can minimize (eliminate?) those
losses by attacking the biota in the big-green-
blob-sectors.

From another source: The Mass Driver is not
cost effective, but useful to supply ore to
Siphoning Stations.

See also section 3.3.9.


3.3.5. Is there a real use for missiles?
One source suggests that several ships on
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