Why didn't Trudy just ram the railgun earlier to begin with?

Because it was shooting at her. Trudy figured (correctly) that with Carlson busy trying to negotiate with and/or kill Jake, he wouldn't be watching the gun. At any time up until the moment she crashed into it he could have flipped on the weapon and blown her and the shuttle to space.

Part of this is due to the fact that the weapon was rigged onto the ship to begin with. A proper warship might have some sort of automatic warning that an enemy is trying to do this, or some computer control that automatically fires at a hostile target within a certain range. Of course, Capital Star is anything but a proper warship.

PM me with any other questions and I might post the answers here. 8. The Story ends abruptly, what of Norm & Pey'lal's child?

What of the future of Jake & Neytiri? What happened during those 100 years anyway? I may write a sequel addressing, but it will be a vastly different kind of story.

I introduced a few original characters here, mostly as antagonists, but the crucial OC ... more.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.