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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 . .
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 Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml
 list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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 " 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

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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?

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