E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman data

[Currald]

This thread is intended as a repository of relevant quotations and discussions related to the capabilties of the ships from Edward E. Smith's Lensman series. Ground rules: Smith's work cannot be contradicted by secondary works. Secondary works must be approved by Smith or the Smith estate. So Spacehounds of I. P. C., fanfic, Randall Garrett and anime are out; the Lensman series, Masters of the Vortex (a. k. a. The Vortex Blaster), the David Kyle novels, the Perry Rhodan stories, and GURPS Lensman are in. No biting, gouging or hitting below the waist.

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[Currald]

Well, I just spent an hour typing up quotations and removing bookmarks from my book, and then it all got erased. I'm going to bed.

[Batman]

What, pray tell, does Perry Rhodan have to do with the Lensmen?

[consequences]

There were Lensman short stories published in serial format in two groupings of Perry Rhodan novels.

[Batman]

There were Lensman short stories published in serial format in two groupings of Perry Rhodan novels.

Ah.Much obliged.

[Currald]

I'll try again. I'm typing this up offline so I won't accidentally hit the Back button and erase everything this time.

These are the notes for Triplanetary by Edward E. Smith, Ph. D. All page numbers are from the Old Earth Books edition, which should match the old Fantasy Press and Gnome Press hardcovers, but probably won't match the various mass-market paperbacks that have come out in the last fifty years. Some of this may end up being relevant, and some of it may not. We'll see.

p. 129
Costigan and Bradley have made their way into the power room of Roger's planetoid and are using their Lewistons to fight some guards who are armed with projectors.

...a projector whose magazine exploded at the touch of that frightful field of force, liberating thousands upon thousands of kilowatt-hours of stored-up energy.

Clearly, even at the relatively primitive level of technology available to Roger, there is quite a lot of power to be had. It's not clear if the projectors are hand-held, semi-portable, or what.

--

p. 146
The Triplanetary fleet, in it's cone of battle formation, has arrived to do battle with Roger's fleet.

...the hundreds of vessels composing the Fleet.

We can reasonably assume that the Triplanetary Fleet is comprised of 200-900 ships.

--

p. 147
We need to keep track of the missiles and bombs used, as we may be able to calculate relative yields this way.

...ordinary solid, or even atomic-explosive projectiles...

Through a pirate screen [a dirigible atomic torpedo] went, and under the terrific blast of its detonation the entire midsection of the stricken battleship vanished. It should have been out, cold - but to the amazement of the observers, both ends kept on fighting with scarcely lessened power! Two more of the frightful bombs had to be launched - each remaining section had to be blown to bits - before those terrible beams went out!

--

p. 230
Now the Boise, Triplanetary's first modern warship, is in the action, fighting the Nevian sister-ship. The Boise has an inertial neutralizer, macro beams, and a matter (allotropic iron) to energy converter. Hmmmm... GURPS Lensman says that the allotropic iron engine only gets 10% energy to mass ratio. I guess it isn't a total conversion engine. Okay. Anyway, the Boise is throwing bombs at the Nevian ship:

Torpedoes - non-ferrous, ultra-screened, beam-dirigible torpedoes charged with the most effective forms of material destruction known to man. Cooper hurled his canisters of penetrating gas, Adlington his allotropic-iron atomic bombs, Spencer his indestructible armor-piercing projectiles, and Dutton his shatterable flasks of the quintessence of corrosion - a sticky, tacky liquid of such dire potency that only one rare Solarian element could contain it.

We don't really get to see the effect of these weapons, as the Nevians are blocking and dodging them, but at least we have some idea what sort of bombs they were using.

--

p. 283
Alright, here at the climax of the book, they launch the bomb to destroy the Nevian installation (and, incidentally, the city containing it).

...there drove Adlington's "Special" bomb. "Special" it was indeed; so great of girth that it could barely pass through the central orifice of Ten's mighty projector, so heavily charged with sensitized atomic iron that its detonation upon any planet would not have been considered for an instant if that planet's integrity meant anything to its attackers. Down the shielding pipe of force the "Special" screamed under full propulsion, and beneath the surface of Nevia's ocean it plunged.

"Cut!" yelled Adlington, and as the scintillating drill expired the bomber pressed his detonating switch.

For moments the effect of the explosion seemed unimportant. A dull, low rumble was all that was heard of a concussion that jarred red Nevia to her very center; and all that could be seen was a slow heaving of the water. But that heaving did not cease. Slowly, so slowly it seemed to the observers now high in the heavens, the waters rose up and parted; revealing a vast chasm blown deep into the ocean's rockey bed. Higher and higher the lazy mountains of water reared; effortlessly to pick up, to smash, to grind into fragments, and finally to toss aside every building, every structure, every scrap of material substance pertaining to the whole Nevian city.

Flattened out, driven backward for miles, the buffeted waters were pressed, leaving exposed bare ground and broken rock where once had been the ocean's busy floor. Tremendous blasts of incandescent gas raved upward, jarring even the enormous mass of the super-ship poised so high above the site of the explosion. Then the displaced millions of tons of water rushed back into that newly rived pit...

Anyone want to try to guesstimate the yield on that? Nevia's gravity is a bit higher than Earths, and its atmospheric density a bit lower. The Nevians live in a relatively shallow part of the ocean.

[Currald]

For you edification and amusement, the second round of Lensman notes. This time we have selections and commentary from First Lensman, the last book written in the series, and number two in the chronology. This seems to take place at least a few years after Triplanetary, as Conway and Clio have a couple of kids at this point. As in the previous set of notes, all page numbers are from the Old Earth Books facsimile edition. And I'm drinking cheap white wine as I type this, so WATCHOUT!

p. 45-46
Samms and Rod Kinnison are ruminating about places to find possible Lensman candidates, and drop some nice concrete astronomical figures for our edification. Samms is doing the talking here:

"Our colonies are all within twenty six light-years of Earth except Aldebaran II, which is fifty seven, but which drew a lot of people, in spite of the distance, because it was so nearly identical with Earth. On the other hand, the Nevians, from a distance of over a hundred light years, found us..."

Rod Kinnison:

"Rigel is about four hundred and forty light-years from here."

These numbers may come in handy later. We'll see. I just have to grab anything that seems like it could possibly be of any use, in case it can attach to another datum later in the series.

p. 66
Samms goes in the superdreadnaught Chicago to the planet Rigel Four in search of recruits.

The superdreadnaught landed, sinking into the hard, dry ground to a depth of some ten or fifteen feet before she stopped.... This double-normal gravity...

The Chicago is sphere-shaped, and we know that Rigel Four's gravity is 2G's. Is there some kind of road engineering principle that we can apply to calculate the Chicago's mass? I guess it would depend on the diameter, neh? So it's probably impossible. Oh well.

p. 105
The Battle of the Hill, the newly formed Galactic Patrol's baptism of fire, is going badly for the Black Fleet.

But also, in that scant second of time, Black Number One had all but disappeared! Her canny commander, with no stomach at all for odds of five to one against, had ordered flight at max; she was already one-sixtieth of a light-year - about one hundred thousand million miles - away...

Black Number One is a tear-drop-shaped superdreadnaught approximately the size of the Chicago, which is spherical. The tear-drop is faster than the sphere shape, and Black Number One eludes her pursuers. Black Number One is going 525,948.8 c. The GP ships cannot go this fast.

p. 132
A little side note, not having anything to do with the ships, is a bit of analysis of Trenco. It may be that we have enough information to discover what chemical Trenco's hyrdosphere is composed of.

Half of that atmosphere and most of that hydrosphere are one chemical, a substance of very low heat of vaporization and having a boiling point of about seventy five degree Fahrenheit.... Upon Trenco is really rains - forty seven feet and five inches of precipitation, ever night of every Trenconian year.

p. 135
Samms is landing blind on Trencos night-time ocean. He is watching a pressure gage, which is in units of millimeters of mercury. At the point of splash-down:

...nine-hundred forty.

That converts to a boiling point of 297 degrees K at 1.253 bars of pressure. There may just be sufficient data to ascertain the chemical composition of the precipitation of Trenco. Any people out there with chemistry knowledge want to hazard a guess?

p. 155
The scout-ship commanded by John K. Kinnison and Mason M Northrop is described thusly:

And her crew, instead of the usual twenty-odd men, numbered only seven - one cook, three engineers, and three watch officehs [sic].

So the two co-commanders are not included in the crew complement, so there are nine people aboard. I suspect that this is irrelevent, but it does let us know about relative crew sizes.

p. 157

The superdeadnaught flashed alongside, bare few hundred miles away, and stopped.

So combat range would be well outside of a few hundred miles.

p. 168-169
Note: A detet is the normal range which a ship can detect another ship. Inerference from the drives is the normal limiting factor on sensory range. Without the drives, background cosmics are the limiting factor.

...Virgil Samms cut his drive, killed his atomics, and turned on his super-powered detectors. For five full detets in every direction - throughout a spherical volume over ten detets in diameter - space was void of ships.

...

He again shut off his atomics and started the sixteen-cylinder Diesel engine which would do its best to replace them.... With her atomics out of action his ship would not register upon the plates of the long-range detectors universally used.

Diesel-powered starship. What else can I say.

p. 174
Note: Earth is usually called Tellus in the Lensman series.
Samms:

"We are about to pass within a few light-minutes of an uninhabited solar system. No Tellurian-type planets at all...." At one instant the ether, for one full detet in every direction, was empty. In the next, three intensely brilliant spots of detection flashed into being, in line with the dead planet so invitingly close at hand.

So a detet may be a few light-minutes. This isn't explicitely stated, but I am willing to inferr it if nothing crops up to contradict my inference.

p. 255
Doc describes Mason Northrop's punch in such detail that I wonder if he's mocking my attempts to get hard data on his ships' capabilties.

It was the same as being on the receiving end of the blow of a twenty-pound hammer falling through a distance of ninety seven and one-half feet.

P. 280
The Patrol is setting up its defense of Tellus against the Petrino fleet. Rod Kinnison and Admiral Clayton are talking:

"How much detection have you got out?"
"Twelve detets - three globes of diesels."

So they set up diesel-powered ships as a sensory net to alert them of approaching ships.

p. 282
The Patrol's Grand Fleet, after faking out the Petrinos with the old standard cone formation, has smoothly shifted into an enourmous cylinder. The ships were disigned to take advantage of this formation, and are not standard warship types at all.

The outer skin and both ends of the cylinder were purely defensive. Those vessels, packed so closely that their repellor fields actually touched, were all screen; none had a beam hot enough to light a match. Conversely, the inner layer, or "Liner", was composed of vessels that were practically all offense. They had to be protected at every point - but how they could ladle it out!

...the first ten and the last six double rings of ships were special indeed.... They were drones, operated by remote control, carrying no living things.

All of the Patrol ships had, of sourse, the standard equipment of so-called "violet", "green", and "red" fields, as well as duodecaplylatomate and ordinary atomic bombs, dirigible torpedoes and transporters, slicers, polycyclic drills, and so on; but in this battle the principle reliance was to be placed upon the sheer, brutal, overwhelming power of what had been called the "macro beam" - now simply the "beam".

p. 283-284

...the hollow forward end of the cylinder engulfed, pipe-wise, the entire apex of the enemy's war cone, and the hithero idle "sluggers" of the cylinder's liner went to work.

Each of those vessels had one heavy pressor beam, each having the same push as any other, directed inward, toward the cylinder's axis, and backward at an angle of fifteen degrees from the perpendicular line between ship and axis. Therefore, wherever any Black ship entered the Patrol's cylinder or however, it was driven to and held at the axis and forced backward along that axis. None of them, however, got very far. They were perforce single file; one ship opposing at least one solid ring of giant sluggers who did not have to concern themselves with defense, but could pour every iota of their tremendous resources into offensive beams. Thus the odds were not merely two or three to one; but never less than eighty, and very frequently over two hundred to one.

So there are ten rings of remote defense ships, at LEAST three "regular" rings, with defense outside and offense inside (200/80 = 2.5), and then six more remote defense rings in back. The inner layer of each ring is composed of 80 ships, and we can assume that there are at least that many on the out ring. That give us an absolute minimum of 3040 ships in the GP Grand Fleet at this time, probably many more. Well, 3042, since there were a couple of flagships (Boise and Chicago) not directly involved in the formation.

p. 285
After the first pass, the Lensmen take stock of their losses:

Also, a fraction of one percent of the manned war-vessels had disappeared.

Additional evidence there are >100 manned ships involved. Yep, it's redundant.

Next up: Galactic Patrol!

[Darth_Shinji]

I like what you are doing. I'm planning on contributing on this thread, but I'm waiting to get all of the novels before I post. I saw one thing I'd like to comment on. The raiders speed was his intail velocity, and he was gaining speed, and three ships were sent after him so chances are both ships are above that in speed. Though the blackship was faster and we don't know thier max speeds.

[Currald]

I like what you are doing.

Thanks.

I'm planning on contributing on this thread, but I'm waiting to get all of the novels before I post.

I saw one thing I'd like to comment on. The raiders speed was his intail velocity, and he was gaining speed, and three ships were sent after him so chances are both ships are above that in speed. Though the blackship was faster and we don't know thier max speeds.

I beg to differ. A "free" (inertialess) ship immediately assumes the speed where the force of her drives equals the opposing force of the friction of the interstellar medium. So the pirate would not accelerate appreciably after it left the solar system (since I assume that the medium is denser within the solar system than outside of it), which would happen a small fraction (VERY roughly 1/146th) into the total second of flight.

[Darth_Shinji]

I like what you are doing.

Thanks.

I'm planning on contributing on this thread, but I'm waiting to get all of the novels before I post.

Well, if you want I'll start another thread when I'm ready. I've always wanted to do one on lensman as soon as I get the whole seris. To be honest one of my goals is to make a web-page dedicated to difference techs backgrounds like SD, but not for ST or SW.

I beg to differ. A "free" (inertialess) ship immediately assumes the speed where the force of her drives equals the opposing force of the friction of the interstellar medium. So the pirate would not accelerate appreciably after it left the solar system (since I assume that the medium is denser within the solar system than outside of it), which would happen a small fraction (VERY roughly 1/146th) into the total second of flight.

Actaully there speed is multiplied by the lack of ether. Also a ships rate of speed is also detrimed by the force put into its drives, and that same paragraph says that they were increasing the powe in there drives at the time. So not only were they going faster naturally becuase they were getting out of either, they were also adding power to the drives. Meaning thier speed got alot faster really quickly.

[Currald]

Well, if you want I'll start another thread when I'm ready. I've always wanted to do one on lensman as soon as I get the whole seris. To be honest one of my goals is to make a web-page dedicated to difference techs backgrounds like SD, but not for ST or SW.

Nah, don't start a new thread! I was just making a weird face because you were already contributing!

Actaully there speed is multiplied by the lack of ether. Also a ships rate of speed is also detrimed by the force put into its drives, and that same paragraph says that they were increasing the powe in there drives at the time. So not only were they going faster naturally becuase they were getting out of either, they were also adding power to the drives. Meaning thier speed got alot faster really quickly.

Why would they not just put maximum power to the drives from the very beginning, as is implied by "flight at max"? There's no need to smoothly accelerate in free flight. Ships are always "flashing" here and "flashing" there. Coming from millions of c's to a dead stop instantly, and vice versa. I think the Black just turned on the engines full-power and took off.

[Darth_Shinji]

Sorry it took so long to replie. Chirstmas and everything.

Why would they not just put maximum power to the drives from the very beginning, as is implied by "flight at max"? There's no need to smoothly accelerate in free flight. Ships are always "flashing" here and "flashing" there. Coming from millions of c's to a dead stop instantly, and vice versa. I think the Black just turned on the engines full-power and took off.

away from earth and was devoting her every energy to the accumulation of still more distance.

Thats lead me to belive that there were still putting more energy into it. Remember everthing in Lensman basicaly has varibly settings. Instead of a matter of acceralation I think it was a matter of energy safety. Doesn't mean they need time to reach a speed, they will instantiosly achieve it. But they might up the power in flight going as fast as the power output. But really this seems like more of a matter of opionion then anything proveable. We are both backed by the quote. At least we have a lowest limit to the speed of the rest the series.

[Currald]

That's true. We do have a lower limit. I'll keep an eye out for evidence in the other books that supports or refutes our respective opinions.

Now, the info in GURPS Lensman is a bit contradictory, but I'll give you a bit of an excerpt here... a sneak preview, since it's germaine to our discussion here. Samples from two charts:

Tech Stages
History
4 Galactic Union & Patrol Formed [this takes place in First Lensman]
5 Anti-piracy police actions; Academy founded [between FL & GP]
6 Anti-piracy actions continue; Velantia joins the Galactic Union [Galactic Patrol]

...

Astrodynamic Streamlining
TS Type Speed Factor
2 Very Good (sphere) X1.2
4 Superior (football) X1.5
6 Excellent (tear-drop) X1.9

Now I don't remember any football-shaped ships anywhere. There were tear-drops, and then the Brittania from Galactic Patrol, which was somehow a really super-duper tear-drop. So, based on the tech-stages (TS), I'm calling Black Number One a "superior"-shaped ship, despite the football label from GURPS. Now, assuming that, other than the shape, Black Number One and the Chicago are identicle (a big assumption, but why not? Black Number One was described as being "approxiamtely Chicago-class."), that gives the Chicago a maximum speed (or lower limit of maximum speed, if you prefer) of 420,759.04 C within the galaxy.

[Currald]

...a little under 15 parsecs per hour. What an old clunker!

[Darth_Shinji]

Currad, pg 100 first lensman. Do you think the Chicago detected the black fleet? If not, I don't put any ships outside 12 lys from Sol.

[Currald]

My impression was that the incomplete globe of cutters, scouts and light cruisers detected the Black fleet. Why 12 ly? Which ships are no more than 12 ly, the scouts? The Black fleet is specifically mentioned as being 30 ly from the Chicago.

[Darth_Shinji]

My impression was that the incomplete globe of cutters, scouts and light cruisers detected the Black fleet. Why 12 ly? Which ships are no more than 12 ly, the scouts? The Black fleet is specifically mentioned as being 30 ly from the Chicago.

Because the plan to fight that distance out was abonded and sending ships to far away from back-up without knowing how many ships were out there would be akin to sucide. And the fleet was detected at long distance anyway.

Its odd that the scout ships would report to chicago and not headquaters.

[consequences]

The wall-screen of a Dauntless class Super-dreadnought consumes 1.25 million lbs per hour, which divides down to 347.2 lbs per second. This isn't even counting the 18 other layers of shielding that consume 502,000 lb/hr between them.
In comparison, their primary projectors supposedly only use 10 lb/hr each.
WTF? by these stats, a Dauntless should never be able to hurt an equivalent ship one on one. Were the writers of Gurps Lensmen on crack? Are we supposed to believe that their offensive weaponry is 5000 times more energy efficient than their defenses or what?

[Darth_Shinji]

The wall-screen of a Dauntless class Super-dreadnought consumes 1.25 million lbs per hour, which divides down to 347.2 lbs per second. This isn't even counting the 18 other layers of shielding that consume 502,000 lb/hr between them.
In comparison, their primary projectors supposedly only use 10 lb/hr each.
WTF? by these stats, a Dauntless should never be able to hurt an equivalent ship one on one. Were the writers of Gurps Lensmen on crack? Are we supposed to believe that their offensive weaponry is 5000 times more energy efficient than their defenses or what?

They prob are on crack. I just read another book to rpg they did were the main most powerful particle beam weapon used by ships was 500,000 MJs. Below one ton of tnt, its crap.


Lensmen weapons and sheilds strenghts depend on how much power you can
put behind them. Really interchangable. Thuo apperently the only calcable example I have right now from the novels is that patrol ships weapons reached the mantal layer on two different planets in different sections of the book. (Both bases were turned into massive lava pools, one located in the artic pole of one of the planets, and the blasts were said to go deep into the earth).

[consequences]

But we also know that they can detonate planets DS style from what happened to Helmuth's Grand Base.

[Currald]

The primaries' energy consumption is just the cost associated with detonating and containing the damage from the duodec that powers the actual primary beam.

OTOH, the secondaries consume a bit more than the primaries. I don't know if this is the energy cost when the weapon is firing, or just a "maintainance cost." If its the firing energy, the secondaries are pretty weak. I'm hoping to find more evidence in the novels themselves that will give us something concrete to work with.

[Andras]

OTOH, all the macro beams power is concentrated in a 1m or so wide beam, the power expended on the shielding is dispersed along the entire hull of the starship. Concentration of force in this case, beats the more powerful defensive field.

I will copy my Lensmen tech notes in the next post

[Andras]

Lensman series Tech notes
Lensman Technology, from the GURPS Lensmen sourcebook, and the novels.

power terminology-
1 pound per hour (lbh)= 11 terawatts
1 ton per second (tns)= 79.2 million TW= 18.9 gt/sec


Dauntless class Superdreadnoughts
Despite the name, superdreadnoughts are not the most powerful craft in space, Those would be 'Maulers' or slow-battleships, a SuperDreadnought is the 'fastest with the mostest' fast battleships ( Montana vs Iowa)

crew-1500
cost- 1,048.4 million credits
mass- 3 million tons

power supplies
Accumulators= 3 million lb seconds (1.18e23J)
cosmic ray intakes=8,000 million lbh= 8.8e22W, radius= 89,442 miles

Performance
speed= 158/105 parsecs per hour, typical inertialess
acceleration inert= 333g's( 3.4 internally percieved)

defensive screens-
wall- 1.2 million lbh ( df2500)
3x inner-25,000lbh ea( df500)
5x middle-2,000lbh ea ( df100)
10x outer- 20lbh ( df10)
radiation equal to 'hundreds of millions of degrees' is easily handled by the screens. screens can be set to resist energy or physical impacts, but not both.

weapons
15 needlers- firepower 200 ea, consumes 27.5 TW each
20 Macro beams- firepower 5,000 ea, consumes 550 TW each
8x triple primary turrets- firepower 600,000 ea turret, powered by duodec explosives, sheilding alone requires several million million Kilovolt-Amps for forcefields and meters of classified compsite armor. Capable of slicing a 'free' starship right out of the ether(space), an extraordinary feat.

Speedsters
small explorers, scouts, and personal transports for high ranking lensmen, Speedsters are unarmed apart from a couple tractor and pressor beams, but are the fastest things in space, with 'free' velocitys approaching 450 parsecs per hour in normal space. cost 157,000cr, mass 273tons

Society
There are several thousand million inhabited tellus type planets in the two galaxys. Many more non-tellus worlds are inhabited by non-humans who could not survive in a Tellus environment.

1 million human men are admitted to the Tellus Academy each year, 95% wash out after the first year, 98% after the second year. Those weeded out become senior NCOs. about 1-2,000 officers graduate each year. some 150 officers are retained for a 4th year of training, these men may become lensmen. Other races have their own way of finding Patrol candidates.

Civilization's economy allows massive shipbuilding programs. At the height of the Boskonian war, sales tax never exceeding .5% and the highest income tax bracket was 3.592% ( less the 1 million individuals were in that bracket). Never-the-less, the attack against the second galaxy was launched with an estimated 80 million ships. Tellus alone sent 80 Superdreadnoughts and the command ship Z9M9Z

Driving 'jets' are a reactionless engine utilizing 4th order energy- mass conversion they are rated in kilo or megatons of thrust ( can accelerate that much inert mass at 1g). Inertialess speed is found by dividing volume(cy) by tons of thrust, modified by streamlining and etheric density.

Inertialess engines do not neutralize a velocity vector held before activation, they only suspend it. It takes a number of milliseconds equal to the sqrt of the volume( cu yds) for a ship to go completely inert. even planets can be made inertialess and moved about the cosmos, but they are limited to 15 parsecs per hour if it is to remain habitable, and no more then 60pph or the bedrock will soften and the inertialess drives will go out of alignment.

Technology
explosives are not used much b/c an inertialess ship will just ride the shockwave. Duodec explosive is 1 million times as powerful as TNT and has a propogation rate equal to lightspeed. One ounce equals roughly 625 kilotons of TNT. An inertialess ship is immune to physical attacks, and energy weapons attacks are 1/100th the usual effectiveness

Ultrawaves propogate on the sub-ether at 19 million million c. Intra-galactic communication is almost instantaneous, and there is a lag of 30 seconds when communicating between the two galaxys. Theoretical range is unlimited, but heavy jamming may reduce it to less then a parsec.
Ultrawaves can be used as sensors as well. they are precise enough to measure the vibrastions in the air around the target and 'interpret' that as sound. UWs are blocked by any 4th order force screen, but the presence of a force screen will be detected.

Tractors/Pressors and Tractor shears.
Tractors are rated in Kilo and Megatons of force, but strength is halved every ten miles range. tractor shears are modified pressor beams that target an enemy tractor and set up an interferance pattern that breaks the tractor.

Hyperspacial tubes
Hyperspace tubes can connect two point of space through a non-dimensional corridor. Vessels traverse the tube and are not in real space, so they cannot be intercepted. a terminus of a tube cannot be with in a certain distance of a mass. for example, a large tube capable of passing a planet cannot open within 118 million miles of Sol, smaller tubes could open closer to Sol then that.. a hyperspatial rotation will occur if a ship is inside two concentric tubes. the ship will go out of phase with non rotated matter and it will not be effected by any matter or energy from a non-rotated source ( think phase cloak).

WMD
Inert Planets
make a planet inertialless, move it so its previous velocity vector will cause a collision with the target planet, and inert it. At the battle of Jarnevon, the enemy homeworld was crushed between two planets massing 6 thousand million million million tons with a combined velocity of 60 miles per second. the resulting KE alone was estimated to be 13 million million teratons of TNT. That pales in comparison with the planet from another universe delivered through a hyperspatial tube that had a real velocity of 15c on impact with the enemy planet Ploor. The effects of a second planet impacting Ploor's sun caused it to go supernova. Years later, it was still radiating energy at the rate of 550 million suns.

Negaspheres
Giant masses of contraterrene matter, contact with real matter results in 'ravening actinic radiation of unimaginable density'. the reaction of one pound each will kill an unprotected human 500 miles away with 5,000 rads. Planetary masses will result in lethal radiation over hundreds of parsecs. Negaspheres are attracted by pressor beams and repelled by tractor beams.

Sunbeams
Basically, a sunbeam converts a solar system into one giant vacuum tube. a Sol type star results in an energy beam of some 4 million tons per second (316 million million TW) it will disrupt an earth type planet in 6d6 seconds. the earth sunbeam cost several( 4-5) thousand billion credits. Two beams are actually generated, one is in the opposite direction from the target. This is to balance the forces acting on the star. The sunbeam propagates at faster then light. The Galactic Patrol is currently investigating the possibility of making a Galixi-beam out of the object at the center of the galaxy. Sagitarius A* masses 2-3 million Sols, and radiates over 100 million million tons per second

Powers of the Mind
Strong Telepaths can communicate between the two galaxies instantaneously with only their minds. A mental attack can be made against everyone in over 1,000 mile radius. however, if acting as a fusion, the radius is 1 mile per member, and the attack on the Eddorian race utilized millions of lensmen across the two galaxies, the Children of the Lens and the Arian known as Mentor. Non damage dealing attacks, such as illusions, can affect the entire populations of continents. Mental combat between to telepaths can result in the deaths of bystanders more than 10 miles away due to deflected attacks and leakage.

[consequences]

Try trillions of lensmen in the two galaxies. 1.37 worlds per sun supported life, 100 billion stars in the first galaxy, half the planets adhered to Civilisation. Tellus, an average world, graduated 100 Lensmen per year. 68.5 billion planets times 100 lensmen equals 6.85 trillion Lensmen per year, disregarding the Second Galaxy, which provides no hard figures. Canon information from the Final Assault on Eddore, Children of the Lens.

[Andras]

Execpt that the Tellus academy took humans from across the first galaxy, and only graduated 100 Lensmen/year.

You are assuming all 100 billion stars have planets capable of supporting life, and is inhabited as densely as Tellus.