RainOfSteel
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I've been reading David Weber's The Shadow of Saganami.
It just occurred to me that I've been reading elements in this ongoing storyline about the military forces of Haven running deserting with their warships. And we're not talking small ones, either. They then turn pirate for a living.
Does anyone see any reason why the space navies of the OTU wouldn't see similar desertions from time to time?
What does it mean for planetary navies when there is a possibility of heavy cruisers or even larger showing up and acting in a piratical manner?
IMTU, in the Imperium, even poor subsectors can usually deploy one medium cruiser as a patrol ship per world. But not everyone runs their set up in this manner. The more typical OTU set up involves a dozen or fewer SDBs. The canon 400 dTon SDB would be useless against a cruiser level pirate.
Has anyone given this much thought? Does this sort of thing "just not happen" in YTU?
It just occurred to me that I've been reading elements in this ongoing storyline about the military forces of Haven running deserting with their warships. And we're not talking small ones, either. They then turn pirate for a living.
Does anyone see any reason why the space navies of the OTU wouldn't see similar desertions from time to time?
What does it mean for planetary navies when there is a possibility of heavy cruisers or even larger showing up and acting in a piratical manner?
IMTU, in the Imperium, even poor subsectors can usually deploy one medium cruiser as a patrol ship per world. But not everyone runs their set up in this manner. The more typical OTU set up involves a dozen or fewer SDBs. The canon 400 dTon SDB would be useless against a cruiser level pirate.
Has anyone given this much thought? Does this sort of thing "just not happen" in YTU?