A realization.

[RingoW]

There is talk of the blood dragon capships being taken out in the next mod.

I protest.

Not because I want to be a capwhore (well partly that and I have a great RP story for a bd battleship)

But yes. The blood dragons are apparantly meant to be a rising force in Kusari (from my point of view). Asking why the BD have battleships is like asking why the council have battleships... because apart from the naval forces, the BD are a rising movement, with their movement growing stronger due to the war with bretonia. They do need a few capships at least.

Not that i've ever seen a bd battleship in space of course...

Its only for the battleship afaik and i think there will be a compromise to take it from the market, but having it to purchase via admin approval. There is a certain reason for. We had a big dispute about this battleship before it was introduced in 4.84. At this time we got a kind of common sense, that only a very small number of them, 2 at a maximum, should ever exist among all Dragon players, plus the one, which was given to the Mandalore Mercennaries by NovaPG in a rp manner. Also at this time NovaPG was very strong and could limit the numbers. Well, recent reports indicate a higher number of them to be used by independents. This had the effect of spoiling the balance trials by Kusari based player factions to keep the number of used battleships as low as possible.
I see absolutely no reason to remove the strike cruiser, whose forward gun is meant to take on the huge KNF battleships.

AoM