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A good space doctrine always helps, especially after is tested in large scale combat and improved upon the gained experience.

In addition to that their FTL is instantaneous when used, which means that hyperspace pickets cannot be used as an alarm and, unlike B5 in which you can shoot at the jump point or gate, there is no way to interdict a fleet deployment.

Their real strenght in a crossover setting would be their FTL which is tactically superior to even Mimbari bonehead maneouver and the speed they can deploy and recover huge amounts of fighter-bombers. Also their additional mass and volume makes them capable of surviving more punishment that even...

Can you pass me a link? I lost sight of that one a few years ago.

Who wants the space version of a white elephant WWII Yamato when you can have a very practical stealth supercruiser that the enemy won't see coming until it fires, won't be able to target even when it can see it and any shot that manages to hit it will bounce on its extra special nanoarmor...

Not good idea long term, military is in general terms less effective than a contractor who is not inflating his costs, and gearing soldiers towards building and mantaining public infrastructure and services forces you to train them to civilian standards (in both senses of the word, making them...

That said after a decade or more of the aliens being absolutely indiferent to you, your territory and resources and yet so much more powerful that you cannot even play at them being scared of your renewed military might the population will grow tired really fast of the high taxes and low...

What they wanted were resources, commerce lanes and probably the empty space itself, both as a buffer and a way of having as many choices as possible to how to direct the grown for the next millenia or so. With so many small colonies depending on the next advancement in terraforming and mass...

In the original B5 there was at least one mimbari sharlin who went rogue after the war. This time its almost certain there is going to be more like entire flotillas worth of them at the end of the peace treaty, this time with them being actively chased by Brammer before they manage to restart...

Plus the LONAW is going to start their own arms race, the Dilgar are still feared amongst the galaxy and now they have reached something approaching friendship with humanity, so despite any reasurances the Earth Government gives about not tolerating Dilgar expansionism anyone near the Dilgar...

To be fair embassies are expected to be unarmed except for the bare minimum for self-defense. In exchange the host country, planet or species should contribute with a neutral(ish) defense force sizeable enough to discourage reasonable oppponents like pirates or small navies who got no ambassador...

He can do both, with a dash of Nero's burning of Rome to make people remember that his endgame is to own everything or left the rabble with only ashes. That said the other great difference is that enough of a core of the old Earth Alliance military actually survived this conflict so the future...

Depends if the Grey Council knew about it. I just can't see them giving custody of such a relic without any military applications to someone who wasn't part of the Council especially when Brammer was frequently in the frontlines where it could be lost.

As a culture mimbari has forgotten the political/social concept of a Palace Coup, much less the steps needed for having one. The risks of generations of a stable, prosperous government is that once it falls no one knows what is going to happen or how the people is going to react. The might try...

In space is easier to keep a military base completely segregated from the population at large. The mimbari can give Earth Force a space station for orbital operations and an island or other isolated geographic region for a land base for R&R. The interesting thing would be if part of the peace...

Remember, Earth Alliance and the LONAW did sign a negociated peace with the Dilgar and a few decades later the Dilgar came to their rescue. By comparision the mimbari didn't have the chance of commiting too many warcrimes against civilians even when they targeted Earth, it will be hard but there...

Also its almost certain the mimbari will need to give up colonies near the border. That can go one of three ways: 1.-The population is removed before giving up those planets, which will create a number of displaced and angry citizens, 2.-The population stays and they start talking with their...

Yeah, but this time they have suffered a lot of deaths in their camp after centuries of unchallenged supremacy in combat as well as a series of attacks that from their viewpoint not only cost their most venerated living Mimbari but also most of the Grey Council. And now instead of looking for...

Thankfully the reason Earth made this raid in the first place was to (finally) force the Mimbari to talk to them with words instead of energy weapons. Earth will accept a peaceful settlement, as long as the price its right. And I'm not only talking about Q40 or border planets, but they also...

Depends on the definition of 'reinforced', in the author's previous work a facility that made missiles based on Shadow technology had to be bombarded by multiple hits from a hyach battlecruiser until the bedrock was cleared and then received multiple multimegaton nukes in a sismic pattern to...