Wepons idea, pitching in

[Dantrithor]

From a scifi standpoint EMP doesn't work in space anyway.

The pulse needs something like gas to travel through. Something that allows a transfer of electrons.

There, you slipped away. EMP is, as its name implies, an electro-magnetic wave, like light, so it doesnt require a medium to propague.

Which is why space nuclear tests were forbidden, as one of them done by US broke havok among US and Soviet sattelites.. And why a quite "famous" pre-total war scenario is detonating a medium-yield nuclear warhead at high altitude. Bye bye to 90% of a continent electronics, if done high enough.


EDIT: Link about EMP's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse

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