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She didn't have the spike installed until during the siege, but she explicitly *was* undearmed when they pulled her out of mothballs and it was an explicit statement that the New Republic policy was they weren't keeping any SSDs in active service for their bullshit ethical reasons. A fully armed...

Fair, but that still doesn't refute the point that the NRDF was explicitly forbidden from having any ships more powerful than an ISD, for "ethical" reasons. The SSD they had was stripped of weapons and could only attack the Vong by being used as a kamikaze ram.

Remember, they made a big plot point about Lusankya being pulled out of demilitarization scrap so she *wasn't* a fully functional SSD, hence the entire bizarre ramming spike plotline.

As I've argued in other threads here, Black Fleet Crisis is interesting because it's the *one* significant piece of the EU that tried to feature actual fleet scale operations as opposed to "band of Rebel heroes". Unfortunately, it ends up being a lone outlier and later EU material explicitly...

Yes, and in that era the New Republic had the semi-plausible excuse of still being in the process of establishing itself and building up. Even then, the Thrawn Trilogy -- as good as it is -- had to tacitly hand wave just how the self-declared New Republic jumped from "grassroots Rebellion mostly...

New Republic incompetence in the EU is pretty much a factor that serves as a very thin in-character excuse for the out-of-character drive to make all the crises solved via act-of-plot gambits by a handful of familiar heroic protagonist characters. But this leaves it with EU making it explicit...

It could get tricky the first few times the Imperium encountered the Vong, but the bottom line is that *even in Star Wars terms*, the Vong were really only a threat due to the New Republic's own incompetence. Outside of that, they really only had a couple of nasty tactical tricks, none of which...

True, but dovin basals could only target a single incoming object at a time and were quickly exhausted by the equivalent of shotgun blasts -- to the point where even capital ship dovin basals could be quickly neutralized by a mere handful of starfighters using their guns in the so-called...

I would point out that we never actually saw any "proper" New Republic infantry in the Disney canon; the blue uniform dudes are shipboard security, inspired both in and out of character on the Alderaanian consular security officers in A New Hope.