Say what? What is this supposed to mean? How are they supposed to oppose their introduction into the Federation? The Cardassians have literally no power here. I don't see the point of this.
Well, one way the Cardassians could oppose their induction into the Federation would be "by force."
*teeth grinding*
You had one job, dammit.
Ah well. We've already reached the point where we were starting to do this covertly anyway, what with their ships hounding us, but now the price of failure got exorbitantly high.
A cloaked diplomatic vessel sounds really appealing right now.
So you lost us the diplomatic approach but couldn't even get some concession for this.
Yeah, basically, we just signed an agreement with a creepy abusive parent who likes to scream random threats at us, promising not to check up on the welfare of their kids.
It is an absolutely
massive concession to the Cardassians unless we can find a way around it, especially if they interpret "Cardassian affiliate" broadly.
[Notably, this is DEFINITELY the treaty provision we should start violating first, and most aggressively, if the Cardassians fail in some way like "let the Sydraxians off the leash. They're not really going to mind if we fight their ships on the borders, we can't really do much about Bajor right now with current political realities... but they are
obviously terrified of what happens if we start talking to "their" affiliates.
The Kadeshu fleet is huge. I doubt the Cardassians will want to risk their fleet. They'll shadow it, see what it does and will then let it go.
Why can't the Kadeshi just go
around through the Rigel sector? Almost anything would be better than having to fly their ships straight through torpedo alley.
And then at least a year to produce the first wave of them, so 4 years minimum before we can have a meaningful amount.
Will this treaty hold out for four years?
I don't think even the Cardassians would have signed a treaty like this if they
didn't expect it to last for four years.
On the combat note - It's worth remember that the Cardassians basically don't do multirole ships, we run a lot of multiroles. Single-role escorts are best bang for buck, followed by single role cruisers. This is most of their combat force. If we start crash building Miranda-As we can very rapidly break ahead, because they're failing to match us while despite getting more bang for their buck.
The
Jalduns are every bit as multirole a ship design as the
Renaissance or
Constitution-B, and their statline is very much consistent with those ships. Science/Presence 3, other stats 4.
I wonder if we could offer the Dawair a slice of the GBZ under our protection, or guaranteed expansion rights, in exchange for demilitarization or something.
On the contrary. We don't want them to demilitarize. We want them to
kick ass. If the Dawiar want to approach the Federation we should encourage them to be what they are, not discourage them; that is the best antidote to any fears on their part that we want to put an end to their interstellar ambitions.
