Brigade XO wrote:Thing is, I don't think Technodyne is or was producing even the Streak Drive ships as that would have been too much of a risk for the Alignment to take as the tech provides too much advantage to anybody else and would have opened a portal into the types of research in drives etc. We have been told that the Streak Drive ships are not easily identified as something differnt unless you look closely. So they seem to be probably normal standard tech ships but are being built elsewhere and then provided with very comprehensive documentation support. We have not been told where but at the present they probably are being built at Darius using what would be generally considered a "normals SL" design even if they may appeari higher quality. They are made to not stand our to normal observation though we are not told what would happen if some warship were to take a really good scan from close range. In the same reasoning, the Streak Drive ships would not have been built at Galton since the plan was always to use it as a decoy & sacrifice.
My guess is that the Streak Drives were actually built at Galton. That system had a huge industrial base, with capacity to build ships at will. As you say, the ships that called on other ports were probably built elsewhere, for documentation purposes. They were then flown to Galton where the streak drive would have been installed.
The Streak Drive was an evolutionary design, so it's likely something that got developed at Galton first, which is the older of the two hideouts, with a bigger industrial base. The Galton Navy ships were probably all equipped with Streak Drives. I've speculated before that the Mesan Alignment Navy based at Darius was only created after the Spider Drive breakthrough happened,
because that breakthrough happened. There's a slight discrepancy here that Herlander Simões was still in the development project of the Streak Drive and this doesn't fit with the Galton Retcon.
What I have to wonder is just how complicated was the payment arrangement for the League/ SLN to purchase all those Cataphracts to supply Fillerta etc with the money not actually going to Technodyne? Seriously, how many tens of thousands of multi-million credit missiles were purchased by the SLN just in the original load out for Filler's fleet and reloads if they didn't come from Technodyne? Who got paid?
That's the thing, they weren't. Those missiles were directly supplied by the MAlign out of Galton, without purchase orders, payment, or invoices. This probably opened up the opportunity for someone to backdate the purchase and then just pocket the money.
Technodyne wouldn't have balked at an unexpected windfall, but given that the SLN was operating in headless chicken mode at this time and that they were probably throwing mountains of cash at Technodyne to make something work, I suspect none of it actually went there. The payment for those 2.5 million missiles probably went unnoticed.
And just how was the economy of Galton being run even if it was only "exporting" a paultry amount (compared to it's own production for defense) in the way of weapons, arms and equipment for the Alignment's black ops including the attack on Torch. It's like North Korea selling weapons, they need the money if only to provide for the lifestyles of the Kim family.
Technodyne was a conduit. The Alignment must have others.
Agreed, but TIY was probably the biggest conduit because they were the biggest arms company, period.
There's now the question of whether the MAlign will continue using their conduits. None of what was coming from Galton can flow any more.
