Opening up Gallia

[Panzer]

Since my little empire got mentioned, I fee obliged to throw in a cubit or two.

Let' see what the IMG/CR roles would be here... hmz...

Ok, Firstly, I promissed myself not to open diplomatic relations with -any- of the Gallic factions untill they all (especially GRN) gain official status.

Secondly, Take a good hard look at what CR is. We're a couple hundred thousand folks crammed on the Tau bases belonging both to us as well as the IMG. On one side we have the Bretonians with whom we compete for territory and resources (Eg... we'd be more than glad to pinch that BMM base in tau 23) Bretonian forces in the Taus got demolished so naturally there's few of them to fight. However, look at the map and jumphole connections. Tau 23 is about 50 kilometers total (2 jumps) from Malta and infocard-wise a powerful and rich nation of pirates that dislikes anyone who is't one of their own or smokes cardamine and ingame-wise, the most popular pirate faction's first and foremost docking area. We're having a hard time holding the line from the swarms at times.

So now... think a bit. If I'm already having a hard time keeping the Sabre-spam at bay (They are already kinda contained, venturing into the Taus not as if it was their back yard, but graveyard) How would you imagine if we'd have to fight both the Frenchies as well as the druggies? Hm? Sure, we'd get chummy with the Council bustaz just because of the common enemy, but we'd be the FIRST to get seriously kicked in case GRN wanted to go conqeuering. We've got what? Three old and severly-underpowered Zephyrs, half a dozen battlecruisers and aboout as many gunboats plus smalls. The advantage would be the asteroid-littered Tau 23, where the smalls could rip those whilte oldsmobiles of the GRN, but it's a temporary measure.

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