ThinksMarkedly wrote:markusschaber wrote:As far as I remember, there has been some technologies (especially the spider drives) which were not available to Galton to begin with, but nothing has been "taken away" from Galton which they had before. They produced as much of the newest generation weapons as their infrastructure could sustain, including FTL and rather good stealth. It's just cutting edge technology, and only a single star system, so their production capacity has been limited and still ramping up.
There's also no proof that the extra MAlign technology would have helped. Well, literally, because they haven't been in use against an enemy.
Oh come on! If the extra tech works, it would have helped. If Galton had access to a few LDs, Imperator and its CO would be dead. Galton managed to sucker punch Honor without an LD.
Thinksmarkedly wrote:But I will say that the spiders and the full MAlign package could not have saved Galton. First, at least at this point in the timeline, there's no way that Galton could have produced enough hardware to even come close to what I imagine penny imagines the Darius system will be protected with. There would be no LDs available; the biggest ships would be Sharks and those can't fire torpedoes internally. The torpedoes would have been a nasty surprise and would have taken some toll on the GF, but it would be a matter of time until the GF found a workaround and the Galtonians ran out of them anyway.
Second, Gail was right: even if Galton managed to stop the GF short by inflicting debilitating losses, the Galton infrastructure would be gone but the GA's wouldn't. The GF would reform and come back in a few months. Meanwhile, Galton wouldn't have anything new (if suddenly new hardware appeared, then the existence of Darius would be obvious).
Oh, the GA will definitely have to reform and come back after showing up without an invite. Neobarbs.
But methinks your prediction that Darius' infrastructure will be gone is in error. You cannot destroy what you can not see.
Darius won't have anything new? It will be new enough. And don't you think you're getting ahead of yourself by thinking there will be anything left of your posse to hyper out. We're invisible, you might not even get a ship out to warn the MBS. Thinking about detaching a ship? We'll detach it for you. LOL
Thinksmarkedly wrote:Third, because I don't think even Darius can withstand the determined GF. It may take multiple battles, but once the lair is found, the GA wins due to its superior navy and industry sizes and quality.
Superior navy my abs. Superior against a traditional enemy with wedges, yes. But against the MA, you brought the wrong tools.
You can't bring a wedge to a spider-drive fight.
Besides, you might find yourself highly outclassed by Darius' SDs.