I think the most frustrating thing about this is they comparatively take fuck all casualties in these battles and can just leave and rebuild in a few years while we are stuck with known systems for them to just attack at leisure, just frustrating since we will realistically never be allowed to...
One thing I don’t think we have gotten is a true perspective of the Empire from an outsider, we mainly see us through the lens of citizens or leadership, how do the neighbors see us from their view?
The problem with unfucking the IS economy and manufacturing is that it should have resulted in 2 jump wide strips between every nation consisting of utterly burnout ruined worlds after 300 years of back and forth Total War without being reduced to objective raids for 2/3rds of it. Most borders...
One thing that stands out to me about the whole false flag smash and burn thing is that unless this is very very heavily AU in the IS then even if the FedCom went bug fuck nuts and is doing this the time required to build warships and train competent yard hands means they would have to have...
It’s not even that they were backwards, they just refused to utilize the resources available if it would disrupt ‘natural development’, it’s why we see god damn friggan hand mining in some episodes at non mainstream colonies.
If the idiot ball was taken away, they would have already colonized near us, the shear resources they have mean they must still have some to have not already spread past us in the last 100 years