SharkHunter wrote:Actually, my argument isn't necessarily that the RMN is going to disperse their fleet to cover their Alliance partners (as they did against Haven), it's that the Mandarin's strategy of desperation demands two things, a) the acquisition of RMN or Haven technology, and b) lies that they can sell to enough of the League assembly to keep the general population of the core worlds asleep instead of "at the wheel", aka paying attention.
If you go back to your earliest post in this thread, you'll see that you did suggest that Manticore needed to disperse its ships to defend Zanzibar, Minette, Casca, etc. That's what made me say that those systems are not part of the Grand Alliance.