Showdown At Centerpoint by Allen Roger MacBride

Author:Allen, Roger MacBride [Allen, Roger MacBride]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

there is some well-shielded, well-hidden control room on this station.

Someplace we wouldn’t find it if we looked for a hundred years. Probably there isn’t anyone in it, anyway. All of it automated, set to work off timers and remote control. Second reason might be plain old misdirection. If you get everyone worried about the repul-sors, no one’s going to have time to go looking for the starbuster.

And the third reason-

“Has been staring us right in the face,” Kalenda said. “I think I just figured it out. I haven’t really worked with repulsor field theory since school, but part of what makes repulsors work is that they can interfere and resonate with each other, right? And you can use that interference between two or more repulsor cells to provide steering and control. Power to a small side repulsor cell can deflect the beam from the main repulsor.”

Lando nodded. “Exactly. The planetary repulsors can jam Centerpoint’s hyperspace tractor-repulsor beam. They are the only repulsors strong enough to do it.

“But it goes deeper than that. The planetary repulsors can work as amplifiers, not just as jammers. In practice it would be the devil to manage, but, in theory, you could tune all the planetary repulsors into a single network slaved to Centerpoint. That would provide Centerpoint with even more power and range than it has now. Right now, Centerpoint gets its power by tapping a little bit of the gravitic potential of Talus and Tralus.

Suppose it could tap into Selonia, and Corellia, and Dratl? For that matter, I haven’t quite worked out the geometry of it yet, but with all five planets and Centerpoint in the network, you could probably tap into the star Corell’s gravitic potential. If I’d designed this system back whenever it was designed, I’d make sure that was possible. Just imagine Centerpoint with that much power. It would be able to strike at any point in the galaxy. The masters of Centerpoint could grab any planet they wanted and pull it into this system-or drop into a star, if they wanted. Centerpoint could blow up any star its masters chose. It could set up an interdiction field or communications jamming over the whole galaxy-or any part of it its masters ù wanted to isolate. It could probably do a lot of other things we haven’t even thought of yet.”

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