Re: [TML] A Small Ship TU, a bit of handwavium to explain it. Phil Pugliese 21 Sep 2014 11:09 UTC
-------------------------------------------- On Sun, 9/21/14, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [TML] A Small Ship TU, a bit of handwavium to explain it. To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com Date: Sunday, September 21, 2014, 1:58 AM On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: [Something that the daemons ate . . .] On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote: This email was sent from yahoo.com which does not allow forwarding of emails via email lists. Therefore the sender's email address (xxxxxx@yahoo.com) has been replaced with a dummy one. The original message follows: " Securing mainworlds is remarkably simple given Trav technology. Securing the whole system is a whole other ball of fish " I agree & this is also mimicked not only in the '5thFW' boardgame but also in 'Invasion Earth' where it's a whole lot easier to 'besiege' a system than it is to capture the main world. 'Invasion Earth' esp simulates this principle. Of course, this difficulty assumes that you wish to capture the world more-or-less intact and undamaged . . . IMTU, the Imperium didn't wish to bother with this when it took Earth at the climax of the Solomani Rim War. By this time - after years of hard-slogging through multiple lines of stubborn resistance - the Imperial Navy was concerned only with teaching the Solomani Confederation a lasting lesson. After the invasion fleet took high orbit, the commanding Admiral simply dropped big rocks on every point where defensive structures and/or troop concentrations had been detected, then asked for unconditional surrender. When the defiant Sollies refused this demand, he resumed dropping rocks until the surviving political leadership (they were down to the Minister of Agriculture by then . . .) eventually changed their tune. Of course, there was major political blow-back on that. The Admiral was retired in disgrace, while Emperor of the time eventually abdicated in apology. But the planet was essentially desertified . . . and the pre-war "blue marble" world is now refered to as Earth-That-Was . . . :P-- Richard Aiken ============================================================================= Guess The Admiral wasn't very good at foreseeing consequences? In any case, I'm intrigued. In the OTU, heavy losses capturing Sol forced the IN to stop it's advance & agree to a cease-fire. So, IYTU, what happened? Did the IN keep advancing? Was the outcome of the war materially changed? =================================================================================