Do too many factions have capital ships?

[Vladimir]

Perhaps. But it'd be better to be explained, no?

No, it'd better be ignored and forgotten forever.

Where else would you have sent them? The other houses wouldn't have helped for fear of alienating liberty

Well, first of all, you don't need to help somebody openly. Second, neither kusari nor rheinland would really care about liberty, and both had a vast nomad/wilde problem they could use a hand with. Third, order wasn't even hostile to liberty, they were, in fact, pretty friendly, after saving the humanity and president in particular, so i don't see the point why liberty itself wouldn't help.

the allies in the Golden Chrysanthemums that I believe you meet(I haven't played Vanilla for some time) don't have the resources.

I don't remember any GC but there were bundies, so if one must choose unlawful path, rheinland unlawfuls would be more fitting. But then again, GC didn't have the resources? Neither did corsairs.

Oh and

Less are born, but they live more than twice as long; without knowing the length of fertility, judgements can't be made. Even assuming it is the same, that doesn't mean the population hasn't grown.

Well, the fertility problem was one of the main themes of outcasts, and just 20 years passed. Nothing can radically change.

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