knjaz, its not a matter "if" the nomads will appear. Nomads use cardamine, dunno for what, but its actually important to them in some way or another. Seeing a planet full of their precious stuff get threatened, i dont think they will just go "whatever" and keep prodding unsuspecting freelancers in the depth of the omicrons.
as for junkers having scramblers. Yes that may work on a small scale. But look at it this way;
Planets are too large to cover with one shield, so what you use is projected shields driven by a threat response system.
Namely a shield that will be deployed over the affected geographical location. This can be done launching drones that functions as a energy link to create a shield between them and thus making a "blanket" in the sky.
As for cities themselves, that can be done in many ways, the most obvious is the stereotypical dome-shield, but thats just one of many ways to do it.
And yes, malta is just ONE HUGE cardamine field, except some ponds of sulfluric acid and mountains. At best a large scale nuclear detonation in the stratosphere would only cause some abrupt damage. It could be cleaned up within a few months using AM technology.
The "life" of plutonium or whatever they choose to use, is about 4000 years, thats a long time, but if you use certain other radiations (like space radiation) it will cancel out the gamma rays by simply destroying the radioactive atom. Obviously, what your basically doing is killing poison with poison, so your not imediately fixing the problem, more like reducing its long term effect.
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