Oh? I don't remember any mention of how those super ships were destroyed in their home galaxy war. While we can reason that they didn't get taken out by tiny armored foot soldiers carrying a small device to cause destruction from the inside out or by a single all powerful blast that opened a big whole all the way through the super ship like the Tianne did because the top brass back home didn't believe the reports about it they got back when they first read it, it does not tell us that it takes days of prolonged bombardment and firepower.SYED wrote:As far as the syndicate is aware of, for one of their super ships to be destroyed is prolonged bombardment and firepower. So while they might take damage, their heavy armament can take out the enemy ships.
Oh, and wasn't your point previously that ships a lot smaller than the super ships, say anything they saw so far from the milky way galaxy, isn't expected to be able to hurt it at all and therefore sending it by conventional drive through lightyears of interdicted space is feasable?
Uh, the communications that the higher ups back home got from that fleet were pretty much instantanous or the next best thing. And when any communications suddenly stop without any explanation it sort of tells you enough to know that your ships are most definetly not fine. And considering that that FTL system is buried deep in one of those super ships and you would have to destroy the super ship to stop it from working - to the best of their knowledge - it already tells you enough just by absence.It takes time for indication to fully cove a system, so they might not know just where their ships would be stuck. They would have a lot of ships near by, the force that is usually in system. It seems sensible that using what limited FTL comms they have, and courier ships, they would request reinforcement at the appearenCe of a sizable enemy fleet.
The fleet that currently is in the milky way galaxy is already taken out. They can hardly send any of those ships that they handed over to the Karinnes out, can they? And I'm sure there was a busy exchange of intel whenever a new group of pows arrived at their prison planet. So, of course they know not to trap themselves in an interdiction field when they get blown up enough even in open space where they could jump away.