Nomad Capship Weapons

[Tenacity]

The outcasts simply don't have resources for cap ships. Their population is dwindiling so there isn't the manpower for construction or crew, and since conflict is about attrition there is a lack of replacemnts due to their low birth rates.

They have a severe lack of resources in their space,, which means everything needs to be imported , this is easily disrupted.

Their location is what protects them, any of the houses could easily destroy them otherwise by attrition and strangling trade alone.

Comparing the knowledge and resources of Liberty or Bretonia to the outcasts is like comparing the real world superpowers to the real world drug dealars.

You realize the outcasts are one of the most wealthy factions in Sirius right? They've also got allies in nearly every quarter of space - from junkers in all houses but kusari, to Blood Dragons, Golden Chrysanthemums, Liberty Rogues, Lane Hackers, Mollys, and Red Hessians. They can EASILY get resources shipped out to them for construction by paying off these factions with the wealth they've made on the cardamine trade.

They can also trade that money for ship designs, schematics, scientists and engineers.

You're thinking of real-world drug dealers as if they're all a bunch of shoe-less cambodians running around with AK47's. They're not.

The major drug cartels in south america have armies, the best weapons available on the black market, jets, paid hackers, speedboats, and more. The only reason they're not more widespread is because their primary market - america, in most cases - doesnt let them get the publicity that groups like the outcasts have in this game.

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