As long as this doesn't suddenly morph into "We got attacked by two fleets... it must be a highly secretive organization that we've never heard of" Then we'll be fine.
I apologize that I came off a little bit heated. I understand that the GC has the capacity to support a large fleet. I was just annoyed that Marth described our forces as "a fuckload of ships" when there are less than 20 total capital vessels in both threads.
So my frusturation was directed toward Marth really.
So hopefully we can just get on with the threads in question.
Now wait one damn minute, I have a right to manuever my forces, Dolash. Quit playing this out like you're dealing with some cheapass or naive fleeter. I'm trying to be civil here but your post did too much. I have a damn right to be able to give my forces orders to actually FIGHT THE BATTLE, not just let you wipe it out with a snap of your bloody fingers. The point that it would be underground also means something. So, be fair and fix it, please.
Dreadnaughts could hold huge numbers of people..... and remember hat Necrotroopers do not require all the amenitities, that normal people do, meaning that it is entirely plausible that the ship could hold substanitially more people than a traditional crew.
Man 20 ships isn't a lot when you control 50+ planets. But as has been stated a number of times an ISD is still a very powerful ship in the TRF galaxy not the type of thing a random pirate group would have. Think of Cannon there was only one ship that was as big as an ISD the Errant Venture that wasn't controlled by a government. Know you have 3 ships that size or so at one planet. That would be a a huge force for a non-government. For a government it wouldn't be that much. For a pirate group that would be nearly unimaginable. But I'm not arguing you don't have them so whatever. I'm just saying for a non-government that is an extremely large force far more than you'd expect a pirate or something to weild.
The way that the Union is set up though, is that they have several large and several hundred smaller sham corporations collecting money for them through legitimate means. Take Belgardi Ltd and Agro Corporations, for example. That would provide more than enough of a means to have a deadly small private fleet.
