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Old February 10th, 2004, 07:38 AM
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It think it only gets repaired after combat. Black holes do not do combat damage.

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Unless the station's name is "Cygnus" and you are in a really crappy '70s sci-fi movie...
  1. I believe that was a ship, not a station.
  2. It wasn't that bad... for Disney... in the seventies.
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No no no! You play P&N mod and make Battlemoons that can easily survive the black hole event horizon and repair themselves!
No, just send the USS Voyager in, fire some modified photon torpedoes at the event horizon to break a hole in it!
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Or any of the various Enterprises... or the Defiant or those runabouts from DS9... pretty much any ship in the history of ST with a main character on it.
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... just send the USS Voyager in, fire some modified photon torpedoes at the event horizon to break a hole in it!
They didn't do that.... did they?

That is so wrong.

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yup, i believe they did.
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As far as I know, no. But, you can put a space yard on a ship and move the ship to whereever you want it to go and then build the space station there.
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yup, i believe they did.
That is beyond even Star Trek's level of disregard for reality.

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Old February 11th, 2004, 05:53 AM
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can't remember much, except they never called it a 'black hole', only a 'singularity'.
they got caught in it and used a photon torpedo to shoot their way out of the event horizen.
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Default Re: space stations

I believe the event horizon was referred to as an "energy barrier" as well.

Still, given FTL in realspace, the event horizon isn't a terribly important distance anymore. Just go sufficiently faster than light (so as to make outward progress), and you could get out.

Shooting at it is silly (since it is just a defined distance from the singularity, not a physical object). Replace "event horizon" with "geosynchronous orbit" and it should be even more obvious.

The only technobabble that would really make sense is an antigravity bomb.
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