Dauntless wrote:but if you want them to be able to later build good ships then you are better off using old RMN/RHN pre pod SD hulls.
If they had access to those ships. I doubt that the RHN and RMN would willingly part with those ships when they will be badly needed elsewhere by the GA assuming that there are any SD's not already recalled to service.
Dauntless wrote:The solly SDs are pieces of junk in every respect, over manned, undergunned, crap PD clusters not worth using even by verge nations. for the effort (time, personnel and money) involved to transfer the solly hulls it would likely be cheaper and easier to buy some of the old stuff sold to erewhon by Janacek admiralty, ( given that they have basic podnoughts by now they would probably be happy to sell them for half what they paid which was barely anything to begin with)
1) They don't need to be state of the art warships, they need to be able to move and fight and even SLN ships can do that, maybe not as well as GA ships but well enough.
2) That is assuming that there are retired SD's somewhere that the RHN, GSN and RMN have not already recalled to service.
3) If the Battleships that Haven had during the first war were in mothball somewhere they would work too.
The idea is to give newly independent systems platforms on which to train their crew's and have some combat power. The SLN SD's are defenceless against GA SD's but Captured SLN SD's turned over to newly independent systems would be technologically equal to the SLN's ships.
The goals are to:
i. build up their manpower and train said manpower.
ii. provide some sort of defence against the SLN even if the GA still has to provide a picket
iii.Allow for those newly independent nations to be able to provide for their own stability and regional stability in the near future.
Dauntless wrote:plus as other have said technically they can't touch the solly hulls until this little problem with the mandarins has been resolved.
What problem would that be?
They would either be treated like pirates and their ships would be confiscated or they would be treated as POWs and their ships would me confiscated. If I were the GA, I would not accept any peace with the League on any terms that allow the League to survive in any significant size.
Those ships belong to the GA now and as such can be distributed by the GA in any way they deem necessary.