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Who and whqt Navy?First weapons and when they are done you can develop new armor to defend against it
We are operating on the idea that any time we get into ship combat that we are going to be outnumbered so if we can not do quantity we must to quality.
We are still believing that the Inner Sphere is operating WarShips, but that we have not seen any yet where we have been. That is slowly changing though...
...i dont think it makes sense but i do think our reaction when we finally realize the truth will be utterly hilarious.
While that is true I was more thinking about this
So we had Comstar and their warships and we have nova cats setting up next to us with at least 5 warships, and they are coming from the "clans" so we must assume the clans have warships.
Fair enough, somehow forgot about that.
They might get reinforced if need be.
Actually Edward did get into that dropship accident in 3034, that would have killed him OTL. Here, however, he survived, though with a few parts less than he should have, as his legs are gone above the knees, but he still can get kids...
It was a failure of knowledge it was a failure of literally jumping words in a paragraph. I already know what a sun shade is.
Good good. We need to keep decent size garrisons on worlds to actually defend them and deal with problems. We are not the successor houses were a single lance decides the fates of worlds with populations in the hundred million.
Uh thats actually a really good thing and we might be able to help him. Having him as Protector might be the best damn thing to happen to the Concordat in a long time if he can actually open them up to sane relations. And yes very odd what happened to many of his siblings but who specifically you have to wonder? Many would not want a competent ruler on a enemy throne. Comstar could have. Magistracy. Doubt FedSun would give enough of a damn. I think very good chance could have been internal crazy factions. The "The Davions are coming for us!" got very strong during Thomas reign and functionally seized control after his youngest was killed later so perhaps they got rid of all the others when they started talking about mad things like not preparing for the Davions inevitable genocide invasion and tried to control Jeffrey and failed?
I blame Shraplen.
Better to put Anti-Alcohol/drug Medical Microbots into the ambassadors' blood stream when going for the final medical check up before the party.
Our Earth is fine.
Problem is they are not that useful as main combatants. Our warship doctrine seems increasingly focused on carrying squadrons and act as very heavy support for them. The captured cant carry that many and refitting enough to let them we might as well build our own ships. We could use them as auxiliary gunstars perhaps but dismantling and studying them might be more useful as is scrapping them for metal and sinking one or two as new coral reeds as a fuck you. Though purposal to sell thm does have merit since we gave some to FedCom.
There is something like 6 billion people on it and most dont deserve to die in agony. Just trying geets boots on the ground and some good will.
I disagree that selling warships would weaken our diplomatic position. Strategically,in the mid to long term, yes but not diplomatically, in that regard it would do the exact opposite.
Yeah the houses would really like to have them and at least in short term it does help us because if they are using league style ships they are going down the wrong path. League ships are obsolete in the face of our tech and doctrine.
Thing is until we do weapons we dont really know how strong the armor needs to be to matter. Better ground armor would be great of course but we already have a advantage there with 10% superior armor per ton as is. Its warships where the problem lies because their armor and structure as is is utterly insufficient. Our cruiser weight and above ships cannot take a single salvo of their own main guns and not die. Simply can not. Thats what this project is trying to fix. It is not a problem right now because no one has warships peer to ours but eventually they will and we need our ships to not be vulnerable to first strikes if and when they are forced to actually slug it out and not snipe obsolete ships with rookie crews.
