![]() ![]() ![]() Old One was a Transcendent bottom-lugger, relatively insignificant compared to the origin of the Straumli Blight. Remember that Old One didn't know what the countermeasure is. ![]() Even without another unexpected Zone surge, the kinetic vehicles could have destroyed the planet shortly after OOBII's arrival anyway. If the expedition to the Tines' world had become mired in another boundary surge in the Slowness, those kinetic kill vehicles would have destroyed the countermeasure before the OOBII could have reached it at sub-light speeds. The attack specifically targeted kinetic kill vehicles, those that were gradually accelerating themselves to large fractions of the speed of light. The purpose of the attack on the Blight fleet wasn't to slow it down, it was to destroy targets that could have destroyed the Tines' world. ![]()
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