Read an article about it in a popular science magazine that arrived in my mailbox the other day. They showed pictures of satellites that looked like they'd been pelted by machine gun bullets - while in reality they'd been hit by tiny rocks going really, really fast.

They also showed pictures of lab experiments, and it was amazing what seemingly harmless little nylon balls could do to thick sheets of lead when fired at sufficiently high speeds.

Oh yes, they do.

But this really doesn't matter, as science is not politics - you don't have to be sane, consistent, moral, etc. in science the way you have to be in politics. All you have to do is present testable evidence and show through experiments that they hold water.

i think it would be a great map.I think that it would be realy cool not to have just another space map ,but one were you could land in the ISD, but i don't think thier sould be a hole right in the middle .I think it would be cool if the astoroide grazed the side of the ship,so it would look normal almost from one side if u look at it from a flat view not top or bottom,but one one side like and sorta half-circle(im trying to get u guys to visulize this)with  destroyed ties and stormtroppers  all floatin around and stuff.it could be all crippled and mangled,bent metal around this point and stuff,and you could fly through this whole to reach inner parts of the ship,and if it just grazed the ship,the whole ship would not be intierly destroyed,I think it should be the imps job to try  to reach critical pionts in the ship to try to re-activat enough of it to to repel the rebals,and get the ship out of the asterod field,The prolem with this though 1.How would you be able to find a spot to exit the landing craft,if the ship is de-activated,therfore,if u get out,your in opean space,and,waht happend to rest of the crew,I think this is one big problem,a star destroyer is not a shell around a large hanger,it has to be in sections or something,it not just a huge space inside,so if it was hit bye and asteroid thier should still be some troops inside,so i think the rebals are trying to get to the back end of the ship and bridge and stuff,to look for importatnt info or something,and the imps can spawn ethier in the bridge of the ship,or in the ships coming to recover the de-activatted ISD(what are the emps goign to use to try to recover the ship?firgats?),so the emp is trying to hold off the rebals long enough to re-acticvate key parts of the ship,so the ship can function on a minimal level,and the rebals are trying to board the ship,take imporatnt documents abord the ship BEFOER the emps reactivate it ,so the emps also have to try to keep the rebals away from the  ISD,Ihope i got everything,wish you guys could see the pic i got ot this in my head,    It hink this will be a cool map(even w/out my idea) but for the ISD I do NOT INTEND IT TO MOVE the level will be complete when the empire reactivates the ship(mabey gain the ability to use turbo laszers after so far) so it would be the ISD with command posts in them and the only one the rebs HAVE to capture is the bridge,but thety can also cpature the other ones too.So Empire= get all command posts and hold them for  a certin amount of time(re-activate the ship,they win) Rebs= capture bridge of the ship)lesser victory,If they capture all of the command posts,liek the EMPS objective) they win a better victory) thats it any questions???