oh, were we in a position to shoot them down if necessary?
They only came there after we signed a trade agreement with them, presumably to protect the far end of their trade route.
oh, were we in a position to shoot them down if necessary?
WOW
They must've had a language fairly close to English for it to translate that quickly.
Can't help but to think that with that many installations, it will either be the most important colony of humanity, or an eternal battlefield when the nasties comes out.
A perfectly normal Finnish winter day!
Arrrrgh!
We're being attacked by Giant Evil Japanese-Anime Killer Robots!
I am right to say we won that pretty handily, right? Although the factory loss is probably a nuisance.
In my case, the whole concept of "jump point FTL" and "space navies" blowing away at each other with missiles immediately made me thing of Honor Harrington. For instance, Basilisk Station was placed in a completely uninteresting system that happened to have several jump points, and that led to the need for a permanent presence by the RMN, setting up an outpost where there was no real point in having one otherwise. A bit like Emu's Nexus.
I'm not even sure we can bombard ground troops that easily. Wouldn't be safe and clean, for sure. Particularly since we already have a colony there. And even less safe if we have ground troops right there next to the killer robots.....and was that industry loss from our own bombardment or 'from ground combat bombardment' ?
Ie. should we trust the ground troops to do their job and not use the fleet on those (if we didn't, well, sigh, send in the whole army.)
At first sight, that's a lot of troops. Though I wonder if we have a Marine Company or a Marine Battalion; a Company is quite worthless except against very small troops.TWe've got five heavy Armor, two Assault Infantry and one Marines in the line, as well as four Garrisons and three Brigade HQs.