The moon is filled with the dead... (Destiny)

by LordOwen, Hiroshima, Japan, Sunday, July 27, 2014, 00:19 (3773 days ago) @ Durandal

Did humans use the lunar accelerators as weapons? Why would you do so if you had FTL ships?

The accelerators are probably used as mass drivers for whatever they're mining or refining on the Moon. Even with access to FTL tech, it's still a very cheap and cost-effective way to get things into orbit or to Earth without having to build large cargo ships. Instead of having to carry something in a ship, it's easier to fire a large cargo out of a mass driver and nudge it in the proper orbit to get it where you need it to go.

As a weapon, it wouldn't be too effective because you couldn't aim the assembly when it's anchored to the surface like we saw in the beta. I'd also really hate to fire something at a ship in orbit around Earth and miss my target; something traveling as fast as something out of a mass driver would leave a pretty nasty impact crater.