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Very nice chapter, and interesting take on what to focus on in the reprimand. That's certainly a valid issue but not what I would have focused on if I was the Lt. Everyone screws up on occasion no matter how careful you are and while he certainly should have been more careful I would have...

That isn't fair to the readers and giving SB too much credit. While there were a bunch of silly readers who got out of hand, when the SB moderators intervened they made it clear that the content of the chapter was problematical as well, although they were "generous" enough to let it go unless...

Why? The only advantage in that seems to be national security in which case it's something the various dukes and the Archon or some other branch of the Lyran government to handle. If the Catchan Arms ever gets to the point they have cash and no where to invest it on Catchan (which they are VERY...

The bigger question is if there's justification to accept all the higher costs involved because of the location, higher gravity, deliberate isolation. Remember they have only a limited amount of manufacturing capacity, why should they be making Lumberjack mechs (which could be made at lower cost...

Sure, but military reforms can't really start until the political reforms are complete to allow you to get rid of the corrupt and incompetent.

I knew it was that bad and worse before she started fixing things, but I thought by this point they were mostly fixed with the main problems being incompetent idiots who hadn't been identified, not that things were still so bad she couldn't even fire someone who so obviously deserved that at a...

Great chapter, I really liked the discussion with McCready, although I'm wondering what the distinction in BT is between a Count and a Baron? I Really looking forward to the attackers landing in the middle of the forest :) No probably about it. The only way a fiasco as bad as what was described...

You're right, because if it wasn't allowed then they wouldn't use those sort of hardware locks because there wouldn't be anyone who would be transmitting to the masses stuff the rulers don't want transmitted and hardware locks make the equipment more expensive. I'm aware of how TV and radio...

No one is talking about FTL transmision of agitprop which wouldn't work regardless of the price because the local population doesn't have anything to recieve that. We're talking about Comstar using their position to transmit radio or TV to the local population.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was true, however please note this sort of thing pretty much requires advanced digital encryption/modulation or all your neighbors agreeing to let you do this because otherwise you get stuff like the cold war radio free america or the various propoganda radios...

Consumables or actual mechs? And note they'd consider the mechs found on Catchan third rate equipment. More importantly, I don't recall the clans in canon breaking open any SLDF caches they should have had records of, not even when they were getting desperate for supplies.

I don't think the clans had any shortage of second line equipment, they were short of people. Also while I agree they'd want to loot Catchan "eventually" between them believing the gear there to be a limited quantity of third rate gear, the presumed need to decontaminate everything before using...

A blast wave could, the one from a thermobaric bomb won't. Thermobaric weapons generally don't destroy buildings which means the over pressure they produce is going to generally be below 10psi which is not going to uproot anything whose root structure can hold the sort of heavy trees we're...

Trees unlike mechs are rooted in place and bushes and grasses bend. No, their plan would be to ignore the planet and go look for valuable targets. The clans consider SLDF technology to be second tier, and the mechs on Catchan they could be expected to find if they went looking would be inferior...

Unless BT has some magic Thermobaric armor piercing bombs Thermobaric bombs would have zero effect on Catchan's armored trees and not much more on the bushes and grasses.

You are assuming that the Clans have all this information readily accessible, and also that they actually care. Catchan might or might not appear on their maps, they might or might not have all the information Kerensky and his staff had about it when they left the IS and that information might...

Did you forget the scene with the big dinos? Anything you build in the jungle would be gone in a couple of years at most without some very expensive defenses. Additionally, there will naturally be clearings in the jungle where the enemy could land.

Probably a lot more - you also have the mass dedicated for the engines and armor you can use (the point is to be hidden, if someone is shooting at your base you already lost) and since it's a base not a ship you can build out from the original hull. Getting cooked isn't a problem because you can...

Umm...no, you'd accelerate towards the star, sling shot around and then continue accelerating. THe closer you can get to the star the bigger a boost you get. Granted that's much more complicated navigationally than the simplified straight line most gamers assume is possible, but then so is the...

I misread what you wrote, but I'll note that the delta-V isn't going to be an issue unless you have one of the planets traveling in the opposite direction since the difference in orbital speeds of planets in the same system will be vairly small. It certainly can take longer to go from one planet...