n7axw wrote:The OBS has some protection, at least in the form of the lasers that destroyed Owls probes. But battlesteel in all probability was not something they could have manufactured at that point.
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They can't? The TEMPLE is made out of battle steel and it was build AFTER the OBS.
Hell, from the description in the out of order snippet, it sounds like the Temple was designed to survive any repeat of Kau-Yung's "walk in with a nuke" trick. A nuke going off within the Temple would certainly do severe damage, but it sounds like the Temple itself would survive and anything under it would be fully protected.
So given the paranoia that went into designing and building the Temple, would the OBS - you know, the one thing that GUARANTEES the CoGA's power against any surviving Fallen - have any less defense? If the OBS wasn't armor plated before destroying Alexandria, I can certainly see the same people who designed and built the Temple refitting the OBS with armor in addition to surrounding it with a cloud of defense platforms.
Edit: And this doesn't even get into the possibility that Chihiro just out and out replaced an original unarmored OBS with an armored one. He had decades and a fricking starship to work with after all.