[Ogre] It's raining heavies

[John D. Gwinner]

> If we stopped dicking around we could perhaps get 300 
> tons, but ultimately its never going to be economical for 
> anyone, even the pentagon, to burn 1,000,000 tons of fuel to 
> get 100 tons of armor to mars.
> 
> Thus I think your Ogre is going to have to be fabricated, or 
> at least assembled from parts, at a secret government base on 
> or under Mars itself.
> 
> But hey, I'm no rocket scientist!  I'm just making these 
> "facts" up as I deem convenient.  :)

Oh, I agree - but in the case of my story, it's the Heavies that have to
get there, not the Ogre.  It's already there :)

In this case the economics are only partially important - it's not a
war, so to speak, it's a "Test to destruction" of a prototype AI super
tank that is located on Mars.  

The Heavies could have been manufactured on an L5 colony or the moon,
the question here is what's it take to get to 'down' to Mars.

However, once in orbit, someone on Earth decides to use the Heavies for
something else ...

(It's not actually an Ogre, but you get the general idea).

		== John ==