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Yea the only thing that didn’t satisfy me with the self replicating is the “they can just… keep replacing themselves? Man replicators really are broken” and how fast is this replication? Like if the dominion wanted to send 1,000 ships through and it could only take out 5-10 before exhausting why not just send the ships through.

But if the mines were phased and could detonate when the big ships are through, or even inside the big ships, they’d think twice. Again, just weird head canon I had to explain the minefields effectiveness in the show haha

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milkisklim@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’d buy that theory for a dollar.

My headcanon was that the non blown up mines could replicate new mines from the wreckage of exploded mines and the victim ships. That should get more material and have a net positive material/ energy system.

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- cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m sure the wormhole also enjoys some sort of radiation for the mines to harvest.
  
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mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah, the more you think about it, the more bullshitty it becomes as is. In the show, they cut to O’Brien working on the mines, and they are just photon torpedoes. They likely just used the default “explosive weapon” prop, but if you push the in universe lore a bit, it seems like they just invented cloaked, multiplying photon torpedoes, which would seem like a really, really awesome weapon to equip every ship in the fleet with.

Bird of prey just decloak? Fire one self replicating photon torpedo, which becomes two in flight. Hell, shoot far enough away and yall fire one and get 12 when they hit. Sounds like a good improvement.

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