Quick interjection, since I've been mentioned in this thread. Dolash, you still haven't explained how the shield went from being a general purpose military one to a shield of faith in between battles. And how, on a planet primarily populated with droids, how exactly can you get a shield of faith strong enough to repel the missiles attacks from all quarters of the planet, espically since you only recently occupied the planet.
Well heck, if we're going to talk about resources, I might as well question how BDE maintains enough gravity interdiction ships to cover their entire region of space. And how recent is recent occupation? Is that not a totally perception-based thing?
I don't even care all that much for the technical side. This is a story. Cool stuff happens in it. Heroics, plot twists, surprises. Valiant effort saves lives, Phage stopped. You can talk about just how hard or unlikely it would be for this or that to happen, but that's what makes it a story - individual acts of heroics and the long side of chance. If we wanted to play strictly on probabilities we'd just play with numbers, or something. Or I dunno, chess.
My presented solution works, in that, it could happen, and was borne to success through the character, effort, and will of the Coalition and its' various characters and personalities - now we're on equal footing. I don't win the war through this, instead, there IS a war, and that's far more interesting and makes for a better story than you just saying "I nuke you.". If you can't handle being robbed of the quick and easy solution, then you will have a hard time indeed fighting this war.
No its not, if it were a story, Id lose. You would write yourself as the good guys and to you, good guys always win. In my eyes, we are the good guys, and your the teht offensive.
This is not a story This is a roleplay
If you cant handle logistics, science, physics and other general things which require thought over substance, then you picked the wrong Imperium to attack.
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Now then, you still have questions to answer regarding the shield.
I put it there because it would be awesome if it were there so I don't get poisoned and die - that is my actual reason. If you need backup reasons, I've stated them. The Shield of Faith is a piece of defensive equipment. I don't always activate it right away because it has a limited length of use, so who knows, maybe there was one before there was that attack on Teth, maybe it was built since what with the advent of war. Does it matter just how soon it's been?
I've had Teth for at least a few months of real time, so I guess that's long enough to intergrate some of our stuff. The resources needed to maintain it are hardly costly - the jewels are mined from Azguard, and the rest is just rocks with symbolic carvings. The operators aren't Jed-quality force users, they're just above-average sensitives who feel the Force through some minor way, like tarot-card reading or the muse of painting or some such outlet.
In fact, this system has a useful peacetime application too - for the minimal cost of their necessities, these people can serve somewhat as state artisans, weaving the power and philosophy of the Force subconsciously and subtly into commissioned paintings and works of art. I think I've hit upon a really cool idea with this, something very interesting that in peace I think I'll expore more fully, but for the time being I would say the resources to set up such a network would be minimal, to my way of thinking.
As such, the defence of the planet relies on one of these Force Technicians, if you will, sensing something through their chosen muse that hints at coming disaster. For this character, he let the Force paint his picture, and it showed death raining from the sky, so he raised the shield.
I don't know if Teth's population is mostly droids, I wrote the takeover assuming an Earthlike population, as all I could find on it was that it was a human planet and such. I tried asking people like Jan and Joren about it, and what I came up with is what is in the takeover (minus the silly). Admittedly, I never specified how much 'courage' would be required to power a shield. More than one, but more than one billion? I dunno.
Just a side note which I'm sure will be ignored by Heir:
For the BDE to put intredictors around all of their space would be the same as putting a line of intredictors from Bastion to Vandelhelm or about 3/4 of the way across the galaxy. That would take at least a billion of your little grav-well generators. Which would require the entire economy of BDE plus more to even construct those grav-well generators let alone a fleet, phage missiles and god knows what else. The map I used can be found <a href=http://www.therebelfaction.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6873>here.</a> Since it was the most up to date map I could find. Note I didn't count the places where BDE borders the edge of the galaxy. My line went from right around Honoghor to right around Quermina.
For the historical significance bit, Teth used to belong to the Iron Fist Empire. And IFE and MCR were tight. An MCR fleet was sacrificed in an Abolisher Field in an attempt to defend Teth against TNO. We have since regained it. As such there is a large significance there, because we sacrificed our fleet so that we could try and save them.
Though that was less a sacrifice and more of a screw up. But that's another story.
Though as I mentioned above if BDE has resources to put a string of grav wells around their space as well as have a giant fleet than a larger faction on more of a war footing would have the resources to put around 50 shields of faith on every planet they own.
I don't understand your reply, Heir - are you saying it passed through the shield, or rolled around on the shield, or what? The shield is still up, so I don't see how it could be through it... The one missile, I mean.
