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Just a note when people say things like "Get by Mars, or Drop in by pluto and make a crawl to earth."

The planets are very, very rarely in a long chain from the Sun straight out to the outer planets. Alignments of 3-4 planets is uncommon.

Mars may have thousands of guns/torpedoes and whatnot and be a fortress, but if it's on the opposite side of the Sun from Earth, it will not have LOS to Earth.

Here's a graphic that gives you the position of the planets today:
http://www.theplanetstoday.com/

So "getting past Mars" right now would consist of simply dropping in on the same side of the solar system as Earth is right now. Bam. Past Mars.