Retribution, chapter 3, (spoilers)

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MartinK
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Re: Retribution, chapter 3, (spoilers)

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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? 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.

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?
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.
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.

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.
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Re: Retribution, chapter 3, (spoilers)

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Wolfee wrote:They have some idea - but have they internalized the information and processed it... followed up by implementing SOPs to deal with such firepower?
They will certainly have done so by the time the next fleet arrives. That is months or even years away and the lack of any more intel will certainly get them to develop SOPs based on what they got back.

Now the next fleet that arrives is that huge refugee fleet, right? Of course, it will be well protected by even more warships than last time. That will certainly make for an interesting story. :)
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Re: Retribution, chapter 3, (spoilers)

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[quote]I just realised something, the moon sized ships are really self sufficient, they literally have their own farms on board. So the benga might very well send forces of them into any discovered indictored space. They would believe such a force would be able to fulfil their orders once they got into range, even if it means their death. The secrets behind hyperspace denial technologies and the tech needed to work around it would be worth almost any thing to the syndicate, so willing to sacrifice many ships just for a chance of success.[/quote]

The issue I see with that idea. Is that the syndicate is a business, not a real military. A military with an unlimited budget from a conquest oriented government may not care about the cost (either in money or lives), but a business WILL care about the monetary expense. Less likely to care about the dead sailors than a normal military, but much much more sensitive to monetary expense. Sending a ship the size of a moon into interdicted space for an undetermined amount of time, for the potential to maybe reach a star system on which you have insufficient intelligence to be certain that the ship can even defeat the defenders? Not cost effective, hence the Syndicate would never do that.
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