Brigade XO wrote:So Cachalot is to become a sacrifice of an independent system to serve as a warning to anybody who is currently or thinking about trading with Manticore and Beowulf.
Can't SLN see where where this is going to bite them in the ass? Not the least of there problems is the sieve that is SLN planning and intelligence through which the information about Fillerta was passed to Beowulf. Does SLN have any idea that happend- might big indication was the RMN fleet that just happened to be waiting stealth to suppor the BSD fleet that was WAITING for the SLN fleet to move against the Sigma Daconis terminus who's commander seemed very well aquaited with what the SLN was about to do, why etc.
Actually, the information wasn't passed to Beowulf through clandestine channels - it was given to them by an Admiral who was tasked by her higher-ups to get Beowulf on board.
Brigade XO wrote:Actually, this sounds VERY MUCH like an Alignment plan being put into practice to 1) destroy more of the industrial base of anything in and around the SL, not just SL capasity and 2) drive other systems (in and out of the League) further from assisting the SLN in its new war.
Conduct a terror campaing to make them afraid to step out of line and seemingly do it without any warning.
It's a bit early but since Manticore, Beowulf, Erwhon, certainly Maya and perhaps to a lesser extent Haven and the Aldermani probably know where 90% of the actual SLN bases and OFS/FF logistics centers are, and a very detailed list of where the locations are can be built and acted on. It could now be prudent to go clean them out with deep raids. Leave ALL the civilian stuff alone- just kill every SLN ship and SLN orbital platform at those locations. Given the standoff range of the modern GA weapons, the GA assalt forces probably don't even have to close to the SLN's missile weapon engagement ranges. Of course, that is going to kill a lot of people, primarily SLN crew and contractors and further reduce the ability of any of the SL to hold together or compel compiance from both members and non-members alike. And the Alighment thinks this is just fine. They don't need the "normals" who are going to be relplaced anyway.
Technodyne and the Yelden (spelling?) system which essentialy a corporate manufacturing center. Just how many GA capital ships, comming out of hyper at various points around the system (and then being able to talk together with RMN FTL communications) does it take to devastate the Technodyne yards, administration facilities and, almost as an after thought, destroy every SLN warship, freighter plus all lthe Techodyne in-system and any hyper-capable ships (warships/secuirty) and lighters.
How does the SL bureaucracy like looseing perhaps 50% of your current warship and weapons. construction plus workforce and primary source of spair parts. And all that graft they were getting. You can just think of it as one less place you have to try and defend with those deathtraps you call warships.
Yildun does not have any habitable planets. Everything is in orbital habitats. I suspect it might not be all that easy to separate Technodyne facilities from unassociated civilian facilities. Although, since Yildun has a major wormhole junction, I've wondered why it wasn't rolled up with Lacöon 2.
Brigade XO wrote:Attacking neutrals preemptively? The GA wants to Trade, the SL demands they are going to own you.....That is going to smash them in the face.
How long before any SLN ship becomes something almost anybody is going to want to try and kill out of self preservation? The SLN is already loosing warships ships like clay pigeons get smashed at a skeet tournament.