Batarian Loses
1 Carrier
+Contents (Been a while and I can't recall the exact numbers)
--At a stab using the contents of the
USS Wasp class the total would be around:
----- >2000 Fighters
----------- ??? Missiles (More then 8 times number of fighters?)
------ >2000 Combat Vehicles
------ >4000 Support Vehicles (Supply trucks etc)
------ >60,000 Troops (Most standard ME gear)
------ ??? Drones (Thousands to tens of thousands)
4 Cruisers
6 Cruiser Fighter Squadrons
18 Frigates
For the missiles: Well I've been assuming each fighter could hold 10 missiles, that was how I got my 800 fighters figure, and they've been firing them en masse in massive waves. So I'd hazard a guess at them having at least 20x as man missiles as fighters, that's enough for two sets of reloads. I'd also wonder why there was a pause, after the second wave of fighters dumped their missiles, to reload if they had 2,000 fighters deployed. Although I suppose it would be reasonable for them to have held half back to fly CAS for the Carrier and ground troops.
SA Loses
Munitions and drones as per noted values in quest (don't feel like counting)
Assorted Damage to GARDIAN towers (Less then 200m cr in total I think.)
Some damaged/lost SA fighters?
Some Frigate Damage?
Light damage to ground units?
Sounds pretty reasonable and light.
The ground battle never really happened thanks to [Reality Edit] so SA ground losses were basically zero. The GARDIAN lasers held until the enemy ground force got orbital striked to hell. Then it would have been clean up with Legionaries vs scatted normal ME troops. The entire thing went FUBAR once it became clear the space battle was lost, and well even before that the strong resistance in space turned the whole thing into a CF.
I pretty much expected the ground troops would have been screwed once our frigates were freed up to take down the carrier. Just didn't realize the battle hadn't been met yet with the alterations
So yeah giant money losing CF for the Batarians for no gains.
Oooh. That must really
burn for the Batarians. They threw all this super tech at us
and epically failed.
(Now see if I was in the Batarians shoes I would have dropped their entire fleet (or most of it any way) on you, but that's... not really "kosher" for lack of a better term)
I'm not sure it would really make sense from an IC perspective for them to throw the whole fleet at us. Sure Revy and PI are a
gigantic threat but honestly what they threw at us
should have been enough. If it wasn't for those two Pynda's quickly winning the battle in space we'd have been pretty screwed.
The fighters and artillery bombardment would have worn away our drone shields and GARDIANs well before we could do anything about them and then they'd have been free to destroy the town. Revy and some, but probably not all, of the important characters would have survived since Legionaries provide enough protection and agility that the bombardment wouldn't have killed them. Once the city was lost odds are they'd have retreated into the wilderness and laid low long enough for the Alliance to arrive and wipe out the Batarians.
Still it would have been utterly
crippling for PI since almost all our facilities, without the Pynda's the Batarians would have have (eventually) won the space battle and destroyed our shipyards, would be gone and a massive chunk of our staff would be dead. That's not even getting into the trauma Revy would have had from watching all she's build and almost everyone she knows and love being obliterated.
TL
R - We only won because we had two superships the Batarians had no way of knowing existed.
Hmm... going to have to roll to see if the cores of the wrecks got splatted or not.
Honestly given how valuable Eezo is in ShepQuest the stuff is probably worth collecting even if it's been scattered over thousands of cubic kilometers. Would probably require a dedicated action next quarter to recover the splattered cores but I'm willing to bet the income would outweigh the costs.
Compensation for defense... not sure... I guess you might get payed for expended munitions/losses, but the forces you defended with are effectively a PMC you hired to guard your stuff and the attack was aimed at you... Wouldn't be even sure how to price it at the moment.
Ah but security forces are meant to guard against relatively minor stuff like riots, slaver raids, aggressive corporate espionage, ect. This was a full on
military assault as part of the opening act of a
war with PI not being targeted as a corporate entity but as a strategic asset of the Alliance.
Honestly I don't really expect much since it would basically be a token gesture done for PR's sake* and it's not like Revy would seriously ask, or allow anyone to ask on her behalf, to be paid for defending her home.
*Having private citizens play the main role in fighting off an invasion would make the Alliance military look weak to the public. Playing it off as them having hired ParSec eliminates that since it looks like the military was simply augmenting it's forces through the use of a PMC, which seems to be standard practice fro the Alliance in wartime.
As for the Carrier you'd be right... if it exploded (*Goes back to edit in better descriptions to make it clear it didn't splatter everywhere*). It's more like it (and anything too close) got bathed in laser light melting the shit out of everything. This is why the antimatter pods did not cook off
. The core is "intact" save for the melting thing. The "boom" was from a thunder clap style effect, in fact better description! Using.
Might want to change this bit then:
Even as you note that fact, the frigates are descending into Mindoir's atmosphere long ranged bombardment rounds striking the carrier.
since metal slugs with speeds measured in km/s are going to
shred the carrier not cook it.
Incidentally wouldn't everything being fried and the ship losing power cause the anti-matter pods to rupture
anyway? Because AFAIK the only way to contain anti-matter is using a magnetic field, or I suppose a gravitational field via Eezo, which requires power.
