No, you need a traitor behind enemy lines to receive a message and start an attack. Star system without a civ can’t receive a message.
Ah, I see. You’re thinking, basically, about an information plague which, moving at c, leapfrogs physical probes.
See astronomer Fred Hoyle’s A For Andromeda for a fictional exploration of the idea (and a pretty good novel).
I was thinking more of Vernon Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep, but yeah, this is not a new idea.
Yes!
No, you need a traitor behind enemy lines to receive a message and start an attack. Star system without a civ can’t receive a message.
Ah, I see. You’re thinking, basically, about an information plague which, moving at c, leapfrogs physical probes.
See astronomer Fred Hoyle’s A For Andromeda for a fictional exploration of the idea (and a pretty good novel).
I was thinking more of Vernon Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep, but yeah, this is not a new idea.
Yes!