n7axw wrote:You guys are ignoring Weird Harold's question and quite frankly, that is the only one that really counts. Eventually there will be counters for Manty tech. But the League will be gone before it happens.
Don
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Will the league be fully gone or will the League remain in some fashion? What happens if 30-40 core worlds rally around a rump state? Would the GA hammer them and occupy them for a long time?
The more I think about it the worse the picture gets for the GA. They have a technological advantage NOW but for how long? And anything they do including nothing at all is bound to piss off many systems which will eventually come back for round two. The GA has 7 member nations in one fahion or other and between the 7 of them they have somewhere in the neighbourhood of 150 or so systems. The League has 1,700 systems many of them core shell worlds while how many of the GA's systems are truly industrialized? Considering that the two most heavily industrialized systems are now completely wiped of industry.
Even if the GA manages to defeat the League in 3 months and destroyed the Darius and the inner onion leaving the rest of the organization leaderless and without direction that would still leave hundreds of core and shell worlds that break up into hundreds of single and multi system nations. Wether or not I was fighting the GA if I was a leader of a nation after the collapse of the League I would do the exact same thing I suggested. It may not be pretty or brilliant but it is one of the only options available that give you a chance at surviving.