Discovery 4.86 Storyline: Rheinland in 818 A.S.

[Kharon]

The Hessian plot makes no sense to me at all:

Where should the military and economic power come from to mess with a house (Rheinland) including its legal forces RM, RFP and BDM and the 3 big commerical mining faction ALG Daumann and Kruger, lesser shurly Republican Shipping, and mess at the same time with the mightiest unlaweful of all, the Corsair and the deadliest of all The Wild.

In my complete FL-time i saw one single hessian hegemon, once!! Single cruisers i saw 4-5 times, usualy in company with 1-2 fighters or bombers. Else only smal Fighter/Bomber groups up to 5 vessels but most common 1-2 Fighter/Bomber or even only a Pirat Transport highout. It is already a joke to think of a serious attempt to openly confront only parts of the RM or Corsair CAP-fleet but three (including The Wild) in an three-front war?

And when it would come to an hessian attempt to take over Dresden, that way cutting of BHG`s Home Omega 15 and 56 from house space and any direct access, the hessians would come to face the fourth mayor faction for shure...

Logical development can therefor only be that they get crushed, lose sectors and get thrown back into a core area or alternativly they develop some magical superpower that exeeds even the nomad imagination and then take over hole sirius.

The Rheinland plot makes not much sense to me:

Any (not totaly mad) House would naturaly set highest priority on securing and capturing material resources (compare "war for oil"). It would logicaly try to push Hessians out of Dresden and Omega 11 atleast and IMG out of Omega 7 (all on highest priority) and in long term try to snatch Omega 3 form Bretonia.

The conflict with Liberty seems to be mainly about empty space with some minor "strategic" value. Both goals (Rheinland takes Texas, Liberty takes Bremen) are plain unthinkable, because both will put the invader 2 minutes away from the respectivly opposite houses main capital Planet.

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