/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11764007
I would envision planetary ground invasion being only doable and necessary against an Earth like planet with a protective atmosphere and a decent amount of planetary defense keeping orbiting warships at bay. The way I'd invade a planet would be to do a "pump and dump" landing where dropships along with a shit ton of decoys are released from carrier craft that are just on a "skimming" trajectory and not in orbit. This forces land with the goal to be to take control of enough ground surface to enable warships to position in geostationary orbit without the risk of having shit being shot from directly below them like lasers and particle beams and shit. Making it much more doable to keep ships in orbit to commence, or at least threaten orbital bombardment through the use of casaba howitzers to conquer the rest of the planet.

Due to the amount of ground you'd have to invade and conquer would be huge, you'd probably require at the very least, an entire Army group to multiple Army Groups to succeed. Not only that, but you are also racing against the clock to conquer enough ground to get the warships in a safe geostat orbit before the enemy maneuvers dozens of Army Groups from around the world onto the continent(s) that your Army Group(s) are on. All of this of course being a potential what if situation of an interstellar civilization that's disregarding how interstellar travel is done which could drastically change what I just said in this post. Anyways, just thought I'd give my own autistic idea a chance.

>>11662605
When we have something in space that's worth protecting/destroying with spaceships of our own that can't be protected/destroyed by means that already exist.