(03-20-2018, 01:26 PM)Tænì Wrote: Why would that be any different in Discovery?
Because it's all electronic now and you it's no longer defection with wooden/metal ships. While freedom to roleplay how you like should not be taken away, it would be stupid to ignore any possible countermeasures for capture/defection every single capital ship would be hardwired with.
Thats not even counting the fact that these are capital ships, crewed by hundreds of individual human beings, most of which probably have families they'd like to go back to at some point in their lives and see again. You cannot concievibly convince them to abandon all they know back home simply to just become their own thing. This is largely why the innumerable "separatist battlegroup/battleship" factions disco now has plaguing it's faction lineup drives me up the wall: these are crewed ships. Automation wouldn't help either, as any faction willing to install a large degree of automation on their warships is also going to put in innumerable electronic failsafes to lock down the vessel in the event of a mutiny or the crew going AWOL for some odd reason. These are major factors that prevent modern-day warships from running off on their own and becoming renegades. How exactly does it make sense for futuristic ships to be able to do it when logically there would be even more failsafes?
Short answer: it doesn't. Can we please stop having these things happen every other month?
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