Relativity in Space Warfare

"Most of you are too young to remember the term future shock. Back in the seventies, some people felt that technological progress was so rapid that people, normal people, couldn't cope with it; that they wouldn't have time to get used to the present before the future was upon them. A man named Toffler coined the term future shock to describe this situation." The commodore could get pretty academic.

"We're caught up in a physical situation that resembles this scholarly concept. The result has been disaster. Tragedy. And, as we discussed in our last meeting, there is no way to counter it. Relativity traps us in the enemy's past; relativity brings them from our future. We can only hope that next time, the situation will be reversed."

Notes:

Having to travel at speeds of light means facing a future version of the enemy and that you are attacking them from the past.

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The Forever War

Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Haldeman, Joe (2009-02-17), The Forever War, Macmillan, Retrieved on 2014-10-05

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