cthia wrote:Imagine the MA slinking into a system dropping off Spiders and all of their lastest toys. At home in their own system, a navy isn't expecting anything. It wasn't a walk in the park for Honor with her mutt of a fleet, and she readied herself and tried to imagine the worse. Imagine an unsuspecting system all snuggled in their beds with visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads.
This makes me recall some of my own musings when reading TEiF. Sure, the GA may wreak havoc in an MA system. The MA may not be able to stop a combined fleet of the top tier navies. But neither can those systems stop the LDs. So, what, mutual assured destruction, a stalemate?
Not really a stalemate (assuming the GA knows of Darius), because the LDs will not be able to return to base (since there will be no base remaining) and so have no ability to reload with spider-drive ammo. Perhaps someone like Mannerheim will take them in, but will not be able to refit them. This can be prolonged somewhat with cargo ships of reloads, but they too will run out.