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We have finally hit the Beginning of the End I think!
End of the beginning, I say. The
entire first phase of the campaign was one long slog of crazy blowing up on high-corruption planets and too few assets concentrating on too many worlds, with the Union government forces in over their heads and struggling with assorted troubles. That was the beginning; it is now over.
Who, me?
we avoided that catastrophe because of celos
I would... not prefer to assume that yet.
So who does lead the Orion Syndicates? Like the #1 leader is??
There is no one person who runs the whole Syndicate. It's like asking who leads the Mafia. There are multiple families, whose power relationships to one another are unclear, and if one leader is toppled there's nearly always someone else who can replace them.
Remember how many times the US has killed "Al Qaeda's #2 leader?" It's like that.
Why? Sure TF2 is well suited to hunting down enemy ships but I'm quite sure it can be deployed to clear out corruption on Orion worlds just like TF1 has been doing. Odds are once we've confirmed there are no more ships to hunt we'll deploy TF2 to start clearing worlds like TF1, doubling the speed at which we mop up the Syndicate.
Task Force 2 doesn't have attached intelligence or ground troop assets like Task Force 1. Its personnel are almost all Amarki naval crews that
even Commodore Nash thinks need to be reined in to avoid doing something bonkers. If they
did add any ground troops they'd be the same Amarki gendarmes who are already part of the Aeroknights.
They are not nearly as well-balanced a fighting force as Task Force 1, for purposes of defeating the Syndicate on the ground. Making them into such a force would require adding a bunch of assets to them in the upcoming legislation, which is probably an option- but it would almost certainly make more sense to simply scale back the task force and/or send a significant fraction of it to the Gabriel Expanse, which is where all those ships would be anyway if it hadn't been for the Lironh bombing.
If Ainsworth's planned offensive against the Sydraxians is successful, having those Amarki ships to lock the sector down against Cardassian attempts to reinforce would be very useful. If it fails, we'll desperately need the Amarki ships just to stabilize the situation.
