If Zoners are getting their caps removed...

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That saying, I would put The Order's raw military strenght between houses and everyone else. By that I have also to stress out on fact that I estimate lore numbers (let's simplify and concetrate on the big pewsticks without going into detail with cruisers and other classes) of The Order to be ~10 battleships while house-grade capspam I would put at 100+

To me, this makes very little sense. The way I see it, Battleships in the Freelancer universe are massive, expensive projects with upkeep costs that only houses can really afford. In vanilla, the Order was a small-scale organization (from the looks of it) with agents planted all over the place to keep information flowing in. There's no evidence that other than the Osiris (which they stole from a House) they had any kind of capital ship fleet or the resources to build and maintain one.

Due to the Order's secretive nature it seems iffy to me that they'd assume a high profile by (probably) employing millions of people and/or gathering the colossal amounts of resources required to build a capital fleet. It seems far more logical that they'd strengthen their ties with the Houses (Liberty in particular) to have military strength at their disposal if necessary, while the organization itself could remain "small" and low-profile. Composed of only the best of the best to ensure that they're not infiltrated and so forth.

But then again, we're stuck with the inflated Discovery universe where everyone and their dog has mineral-rich planets, shipyards and a huge workforce at their disposal.

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