I remember a battleship shooting down a capital spacecraft in John Ringo's Posleen War series. (The premise of which is that ravenous genetically engineered aliens invade Earth, but with the help of some pseudo-benevolent other aliens we bootstrap our technology to the point where we can just barely survive. If you're curious, the first book, A Hymn Before Battle, is on the Baen Free Library.)

That's all that springs to mind, really.

OK, here's an idea: gin up something like the British M-class submarines ("M" for monitor; they were bizarre steam-powered monstrosities outfitted with a single 12-inch gun) armed with a Gerald Bull-type supergun or a railgun. Similar doctrine: pop to the surface, fire off a spaceship-killer round, and dive, dive, dive to put lots of water between you and whatever the spaceship is carrying.

(From Alex: Infrared satellite tracking of the engines? Like it or not, the ocean's a big place, and there aren't that many ships out there in any given patch of ocean. Still, something to think about. A junior officer could pitch that to a ship's XO.)

Choess - a modern sub already has better than that. Nuclear-tipped cruise missiles ought to do the job quite nicely, no need to resort to WW2 tech.

I was reading a sci fi book that talks about using sound as a weapon. I thought that was cool. I don't if you could direct sound like a weapon from a ship, but...maybe?

Don't give up on writing! I'm a writer too. I wrote a sci fi recently and am submitting it to a couple of houses. I'm lucky though, I own a production company and can make my own commercials.

I used a Book Trailer to submit a story and that worked great! If you've never seen one you have got to check it out! Here's one we did that is from the sci fi book I mentioned above. It's called Night Game. The video has a bunch of cool special effects in it.

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Writers write. That is so true. But, blogs count! Right?

Taz

(From Alex: The idea of sound as a weapon is interesting, but not very plausible. Especially not in space, where there's no air to carry sound. Even sci-fi must obey the laws of physics, warp drive not included...)