Hypothetical Scenario: 824 A.S

[Omicron]

If Gallia ever enters Alpha, they will be bassicaly met with Nomad swarm. Add to that general panic within their ranks when they get attacked by "countless" numbers of creatures they never heard about.

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[Prysin]

knjaz, its not a matter "if" the nomads will appear. Nomads use cardamine, dunno for what, but its actually important to them in some way or another. Seeing a planet full of their precious stuff get threatened, i dont think they will just go "whatever" and keep prodding unsuspecting freelancers in the depth of the omicrons.

as for junkers having scramblers. Yes that may work on a small scale. But look at it this way;
Planets are too large to cover with one shield, so what you use is projected shields driven by a threat response system.
Namely a shield that will be deployed over the affected geographical location. This can be done launching drones that functions as a energy link to create a shield between them and thus making a "blanket" in the sky.
As for cities themselves, that can be done in many ways, the most obvious is the stereotypical dome-shield, but thats just one of many ways to do it.

And yes, malta is just ONE HUGE cardamine field, except some ponds of sulfluric acid and mountains. At best a large scale nuclear detonation in the stratosphere would only cause some abrupt damage. It could be cleaned up within a few months using AM technology.

The "life" of plutonium or whatever they choose to use, is about 4000 years, thats a long time, but if you use certain other radiations (like space radiation) it will cancel out the gamma rays by simply destroying the radioactive atom. Obviously, what your basically doing is killing poison with poison, so your not imediately fixing the problem, more like reducing its long term effect.

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[Fletcher]

Why nuke the planet when you can nuke their orbital assets? Like that huge shipyard and then nuke spaceports on the ground? And further damage the organization and logistics by nuking the docking ring. That will essentially cut off Malta from conventional supplies and transport until either specialized ships arrive for traditional atmospheric entry or a new docking ring is manufactured.

That is the weakness of every planet on tactical terms. Nuke the docking ring.

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[Prysin]

Why nuke the planet when you can nuke their orbital assets? Like that huge shipyard and then nuke spaceports on the ground? And further damage the organization and logistics by nuking the docking ring. That will essentially cut off Malta from conventional supplies and transport until either specialized ships arrive for traditional atmospheric entry or a new docking ring is manufactured.

That is the weakness of every planet on tactical terms. Nuke the docking ring.

not really, many ships are capable of orbital entry/exit. The docking ring is just there cuz microsoft didnt bother making a system that allows certain ships to just fly into the atmosphere and appear in the city... But even some vanilla ships state that they were made with the intent of orbital entry/exit

Valetta shipyard aint their biggest shipyard, they got others. Including one hidden in Omicron 81 and ofcourse, if everything fails, they can fall back to Corsica, a place so insanely well protected that even the gauls could face utter destruction trying to reach it. If they can find it that is.

as for disabling anything, yes its possible, but the most efficient way to stop the casts would be to park 34850934 valors in Tau 23.
Just cut their main smuggling route then give KSP some extra funding to fight smugglers and voila, two of their most used drug routes are cut off. Only one left is Rheindland, in which every pirate faction now hate them so their basically entering a house more hostile to them then gamma.

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[SpaceTime]

If they wanted to attack GMG, invading Alpha instead of capturing the Taus and attacking Bretonia is way more feasible and easier. Hell, even IMG would actively support the attack against the sniffers. Then the Sigmas would fall to Charles' hands if he was able to overcome the guerrilla tactics and the stretching of his supply lines (Gallia -> Sigmas) without the need to attack any House but instead letting them fight their own wars.

[Thunderer]

The purpose of the Gallia-Bretonia war is that the Gauls must conquer or destroy planet New London. Now, it is clear that Bretonia will lose the war. If Bretonia looses, that would open the path from Gallia to Liberty. Gallia has already threaten Liberty to invade them. If Bretonia and Liberty lose the war, the biggest part of Sirius would be controlled by Gallia, what Rheinland and all of Sirius don't want. I think the 3 Houses should unite against Gallia and Kusari and bring total war to Sirius. While the authorities are busy fighting, pirates will spread terror amongst the less guarded systems. Total war. Everybody will be able to shoot something whenever he/she wants, everibody will be content. Bretonia will defend, Liberty will send its ships trough Magellan and Rheinland will keep Kusari busy in and trough Sigma 13. Liberty and Bretonia also have close borders with Kusari, but Rheinland doesn't have the path to Gallia, so they can concentrate their forces on Kusari. There are some things that are against this story, like Rheinlands trading relations with Kusari and the war against Liberty.

I think that the houses are not blind and can see the Gallia treat. I'm a Bretonia lover, so I don't realy like to see Bretonia fall and I think that the great House unification would have to happen before Bretonia falls.

After Gallia isn't considered as a dangerous enemy and Kusari sees that they will lose and shift to the Sirius side, after promised benefits (somewhat like Italy in the 1st WW shifted to the side of the of the Allies), everything returns to the old status (maybe in 4.88, if they make it). Liberty attacks Rheinland again, Kusari gets some of the promised benefits, they unite with Bretonia and continue the war vs. Gallia. They sometimes win, sometimes lose, standard Tau war, etc... So, ladies and gentlemen, what do you think about this? I must mention that I'm a Bretonia lover, so I don't like to see them falling. There are also some Gallia lovers, who don't like to see the mighty Gallia falling. Everybody can comment about this, add something, remove something, or agree that the Fletcher's version is better. So, what do you say?

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[ProwlerPC]

It would be a fantasticly huge gamble. The potential outcome of a victory would be very tempting, no doubt, because a complete and utter victory resulting in the control of the Sigmas would put Sirius on it's knees. That complete and utter victory would be a really difficult thing to achieve due to the nature of the clouds, however. Their initial rush would be successful because the nearby GMG will slip into the clouds mimiced across the board by the rest as the enemy fleet approaches. GMG has allowed the RM fleet the initial land grab in The Eighty and has allowed the Wilde Fleet rush to pass through in the Nomad War. In both instances both fleets later faced an organized force of numbers eventually annihalating the RM fleet in one and scattering the Wild fleet in the other.

Gallia is a massive force but the tactics would remain the same. GMG would initially dissappear and from then on it will use guerilla warfare tactics and drag the conflict on for many decades. What this means is that Gallia, from then on won't havve full complete control but will always have to factor in a great deal of resources to replace losses or otherwise ultimately have to cecede the territory.

This doesn't even factor in the sudden friendly disposition all the houses will have have for GMG's plight.

I think it might be potentially possible. It would be the largest battlefield in Sirius history and probably the longest war. But it would be a make or break choice for Gallia to attempt it due to the sheer price such a move will cost.

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[Prysin]

It would be a fantasticly huge gamble. The potential outcome of a victory would be very tempting, no doubt, because a complete and utter victory resulting in the control of the Sigmas would put Sirius on it's knees. That complete and utter victory would be a really difficult thing to achieve due to the nature of the clouds, however. Their initial rush would be successful because the nearby GMG will slip into the clouds mimiced across the board by the rest as the enemy fleet approaches. GMG has allowed the RM fleet the initial land grab in The Eighty and has allowed the Wilde Fleet rush to pass through in the Nomad War. In both instances both fleets later faced an organized force of numbers eventually annihalating the RM fleet in one and scattering the Wild fleet in the other.

Gallia is a massive force but the tactics would remain the same. GMG would initially dissappear and from then on it will use guerilla warfare tactics and drag the conflict on for many decades. What this means is that Gallia, from then on won't havve full complete control but will always have to factor in a great deal of resources to replace losses or otherwise ultimately have to cecede the territory.

This doesn't even factor in the sudden friendly disposition all the houses will have have for GMG's plight.

I think it might be potentially possible. It would be the largest battlefield in Sirius history and probably the longest war. But it would be a make or break choice for Gallia to attempt it due to the sheer price such a move will cost.

indeed, GMG is comparable to Vietnam, masters of guerilla war...

But there is one intriguing thing that might arise. Say the gallics invaded Alpha, and Malta was facing destruction.

One question arises, would the sairs really just "appreciate" it? Corsairs and Outcasts have been fighting for what? 600 years atleast, maybe more?.... the hatred and lust for revenge in either nation, runs very deep.
And since its highly unlikely that gallia would just step down and let corsairs finish it off, it think that gallia attacking Alpha (or gamma for that sake) could in a twisted way make House Hispania arise from its ashes to crush this bully that seeks to meddle with their affairs.

For sure it sounds farfetched, but would you really accept that after over half a millennium of fighting, someone else, someone you cant even call a friend or an ally, comes in and kills the ones you sought to kill and torture for the losses he/she had inflicted on your family.
The pride of the Corsairs and Outcasts, the pride saying "WE SHALL BE THE ONES TO EMERGE VICTORIOUS", its actually a terrifying scenario. Farfetched, but not completely impossible from were i see it.

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[Knjaz]

indeed, GMG is comparable to Vietnam, masters of guerilla war...

We had a thread bout 80 years war, a year ago... and Vietnam, just like Afghanistan, wasn't a military defeat, unlike 80 years war. But I won't argue about GMG, since, in their lore, "cosine can be equal and higher then 4". You just can't beat that.

But there is one intriguing thing that might arise. Say the gallics invaded Alpha, and Malta was facing destruction.

One question arises, would the sairs really just "appreciate" it? Corsairs and Outcasts have been fighting for what? 600 years atleast, maybe more?.... the hatred and lust for revenge in either nation, runs very deep.
And since its highly unlikely that gallia would just step down and let corsairs finish it off, it think that gallia attacking Alpha (or gamma for that sake) could in a twisted way make House Hispania arise from its ashes to crush this bully that seeks to meddle with their affairs.

For sure it sounds farfetched, but would you really accept that after over half a millennium of fighting, someone else, someone you cant even call a friend or an ally, comes in and kills the ones you sought to kill and torture for the losses he/she had inflicted on your family.
The pride of the Corsairs and Outcasts, the pride saying "WE SHALL BE THE ONES TO EMERGE VICTORIOUS", its actually a terrifying scenario. Farfetched, but not completely impossible from were i see it.

Outcasts and sairs have absolutely nothing in common, except for the past history. Outcasts aren't even humans anymore, judging by their DNA. If anything, sairs would be happy to see Malta turning into a wasteland.

EDIT: As for the strike into Sigmas - TOO RISKY, no sane strategist would approve that. Unless Bretonia's invasion never happened, and Gallics would push into Malta with that fleet instead, OR they would have a way to guarantee that Kusari won't backstab them. Preferably by going to war with Liberty.

[escopton]

With the Queen in exile, Gallia would put a Viceroy in New London rather than let it be an easy prey for the SCRA agenda.

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