Minefield

[TheBeautifulVoid2]

It wouldn't be hard to build a cheap automated station consisting of some sensors and a mass driver turret. It sits there without engines or life support to make her energy signature low and hard to spot. When a ship comes into view which isn't broadcasting the right IFF codes, it gets lit up.

Cheap, effective. You could put them in a huge lattice, one AU apart, near the hyperlanes and then leave them for decades.

That's a minefield.

 

[goliard20]

Whose field is it?

the blorgs

 

[Zaku]

I don't understant what's unbeliveable about a space minefield. People think that weapons in the far future would be on the same tech level as they are today.
A space mine can be a self propelled bomb with deep space radar a smart guide system. Something like a modern missile, except a hundred times more sopisthicated. Just throw a hundred of thousand of these near trade routes, important installations, planets, or hyperlane exit points and every enemy ship would get swarmed by hundreds of smart bombs if they get too close.

 

[hjarg]

Cheap, effective. You could put them in a huge lattice, one AU apart, near the hyperlanes and then leave them for decades.

That's a minefield.

That is of course a pretty wide defintion of a minefied. Automated defence network or something would sound better
But if we call it a minefield, then yes, this is one effective minefield.

 

[moglus]

Whose field is it?

myfield

 

[TheNitram]

myfield

This field is MINE