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What combination of votes should I choose for "just invade the damned Licori already?"
You start running into increasing trouble if it goes past twelve. But it's not an auto-loss.but that already takes us 9 months in to a war soft capped to 12
How do you lose an extinction-avoiding war due to combat fatigue? Is the council going to announce in 18 months 'we are fine with the Licori blowing up stars- like ours - we are no longer trying to stop them?'Vote is closed -
You start running into increasing trouble if it goes past twelve. But it's not an auto-loss.
How do you lose an extinction-avoiding war due to combat fatigue? Is the council going to announce in 18 months 'we are fine with the Licori blowing up stars- like ours - we are no longer trying to stop them?'
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Though if one does explode, we'll get all the War Support Admiral Sulu could possibly need.In case you haven't noticed, not everyone is convinced this is an existential crisis. And the longer things go on without homeworlds exploding, the more people are going to agree with the pacifists.
Once the Klingons and Romulans get in the habit of fighting each other, it is highly unlikely that they will really stop, at least for a generation or two. Groups like the Tal Shiar on the Romulan side of the border and the more fire-eating Great Houses on the Klingon side are gonna keep wanting to poke at things, size up each other's military performance, and satisfy internal political needs through killing foreigners.That might be a bit late, though. For the war that seems to be about to kick off, at any rate.
While I don't want to be a downer, I'm not a fan of this interpretation, simply because it relies on a bunch of things that I don't really expect to be true on a gut level. Sorry.I suppose that's another interpretation of how Dreams could occur: an emergent intelligence in the computer core interacting subconsciously with the dreams of various crew members – à la GCU Grey Area, except in a less ... ethically dubious manner.
Perhaps each Enterprise's computer is, out of tradition, spun up from the latest backup of the previous one. Recollections of early Enterprises would then have to be (constructed?) false memories, though.
Once the Klingons and Romulans get in the habit of fighting each other, it is highly unlikely that they will really stop, at least for a generation or two. Groups like the Tal Shiar on the Romulan side of the border and the more fire-eating Great Houses on the Klingon side are gonna keep wanting to poke at things, size up each other's military performance, and satisfy internal political needs through killing foreigners.
While I don't want to be a downer, I'm not a fan of this interpretation, simply because it relies on a bunch of things that I
I am not sure. A war like that is expensive and neither the Roms nor the Klingons can really afford to fall that far behind the federation or the Cardassians.
Though of course emotional reasons could negate that argument to a degree.
(Bu then, I am one of the few people who still fears that the Klingons will attack us instead of the Roms since this is the perfect opportunity to severely hamstring the expansionist course of the federation (indeed I would even argue that it is far more likely for the Roms to secretly support the Arkadians than us for exactly the same reason))
Do we have some assignments yet to make? We're launching two EC ships on 5ym this year, and I don't recall replacing our EC Rear Admiral yet.
Admiral Sousa,
We've been holding tight for the past quarter. The recent spate of battle has clearly pushed our repair infrastructure as far as it can be born, which is leaving me waiting on the new repair yard and marshalling the remaining assets. Unfortunately, the start of the problems with the Arcadians has clearly left me a bit further down in terms of resources, and I am starting to put out feelers towards our counterparts among the Indorians and Caitians to see if they are interested in joining out efforts here.
Once the Klingons and Romulans get in the habit of fighting each other, it is highly unlikely that they will really stop, at least for a generation or two. Groups like the Tal Shiar on the Romulan side of the border and the more fire-eating Great Houses on the Klingon side are gonna keep wanting to poke at things, size up each other's military performance, and satisfy internal political needs through killing foreigners.
While I don't want to be a downer, I'm not a fan of this interpretation, simply because it relies on a bunch of things that I don't really expect to be true on a gut level. Sorry.
I dunno, we're currently caught between the expansionist fascists to our left and the "Space WMD" people above us. If there was time to attack now might be it, with most of our fleet holding one border and the other ostensibly fighting against space super-weapons.They both know that if they get caught undermining us, the Federation will join their enemy against them. They could gang up against us together, but, well, that never lasts more than a week.
Did we already give S'harien a new captain?Two ships? The Voshov and that's it, I think. I don't recall a second EC ship. The Courageous will likely be delayed until 2316 in restarting its mission, as we'll probably want it in the LBZ for the same reason we sent the Enterprise and the Sarek there.
The flip side is that Cardassian space is poised like a veritable sword of Damocles against them, whether they like it or not. Given the weakness of our own fleet at Lapycorias, they have to be concerned that a concentrated Cardassian attack could just roll right over them, starbases, outposts, and all, with something like a 2:1 firepower superiority. Their best defense against that is to NOT disperse their fleet assets. The Caitians can more easily afford to get away with that, by contrast.It would be nice to see the Indorians and the Caitians get in on this. The Caitians have a big fleet and can afford to send ships even though it's far away, while the Indorians are closer and shouldn't mind having their fleet poised like a dagger against Cardassian space.
Well, suffice to say that "ships have souls" gives me the same warm fuzzies that I get from the "recurring AI" idea, with fewer "but wait the Federation wouldn't actually do that" moments because, well, ships having souls isn't something the Federation makes happen on purpose.Fair points both! You're right that the Grey Area interpretation would require some further work, though I personally am a fan of Culture-like ships (obviously). Admittedly, the Federation has been bitten by this in the past with the M5 incident, so I doubt they'd be pleased with the concept at the moment.
They both know that if they get caught undermining us, the Federation will join their enemy against them. They could gang up against us together, but, well, that never lasts more than a week.