Brigade XO wrote:Silesia will continue to need ships but, unless Kingsford and the Alignment both decide to actually send commerce raiders there, there should be a deminishing number of problems with hyper-capable raiding activity. Silesia also had a couple of yards that were building up to CA sized warships for either the Confederacy, the local SDFs or both which should be able to at least maintain any of those local built ships and probably and SL produced material that was in the local inventories. Those SL or variant ships could be much older ships bought used well before the recent problems. Given the change of ownership/government to the IAE and SEM, any of the former Confed or local SDF forces SHOULD make the transition to both effective anti-piracy forces as part of their duties and probably will develop some officers and crews who are much more agressive and become very much better at doing those jobs.
Given the quality of Silesian Confederacy Navy ships, I suspect they are being scrapped or will be, with the SCN crews in Manticoran Silesia retrained for system defense forces, a possible Silesian Guard force, and/or the RMN.
Sidemore has not -that I can remember- been addressed as to wether or not it has been included in the Partition (which would have been on the SEM side) nor if it might have also asked-even at the time of the Partition or later if not included- about joining SEM. They are still a major fleet base, have a population that has very strong pro-Manticore sentiment and their government was already comparable with what the SEM is using both at home and in Talbot and Silesia.
The wiki and my memory both have it that Marsh is not included in the partition and the Republic of Sidemore remains independent, an ally of Manticore, and presumably on friendly terms with the Andermani Empire. The wiki refers to an infodump for that, but I've not been able to locate the specific one yet.
The partition - I thought it was roughly the eastern portion (nearest Basilisk) to Manticore, western (nearest the AE) to AE. If that's the case, then Marsh is way off on the AE side. (But conveniently more or less on the way toward Silesia from Gregor.) If it's not the case, I beg for correction.
Monica too is out there, and the SEM does have a mutual defense treaty with them now. It's not Monica's idea, and acting on it may be uncomfortable for all parties, but it's another potential demand on the forces out beyond Lynx.Talbott, on the other had, is on a close boarder area with the SL and other entities, has that relativly long distance set of systems and has at least one non-SEM system in there. There are systems close to but not in Talbot that are either Independent or Protectorates. That is the place that is going to need more of the modern ships and weapons systems, particularly as that is where the blows are most likely to fall given the relative closeness both to SL and the OFS areas plus local problem systems outside the quadrant like Saltash.
As yet we have NOT seen what has alreadyy been set up outside Manticore - and probably San Martin- as far as training for naval personnel for SEM or the more localy targeted Quadrant Guard for Talbot. I don't think we have been shown what the actual LAC production was up to Oyster Bay and where the LACs and the crews were being trained. If I were going to be training hundreds of LAC crews at a time, I would want that training well away from the major traffic lanes in the Manticore system and the major stations as well.
Manticore-B likely does that job well. Gregor-B was used for IAN staging; it's another place that could be used, although you'd want those operations outside the view of "freighters" passing through the terminus. Matapan would be another system beyond the Junction with good relations and relatively limited traffic. Or there's the system with which the "Lynx" terminus is associated - uninhabited, useless, untrafficked, a fair piece away from the terminus for sensors but not far for hypercapable units moving to and fro as needed.
Amoung other things getting all those LAC crews IN TRAINING in and out of the wedge exclusions zones around the three major and who knows how many lesser facilities in plantary obits would be a real challenge. It is "possible" that one or more retired CLACs (battle damage and not worth repairing for combat operations etc but still brought home) are being used somewhere in-system as the training locations which would give very real practice. Since that type of ship would still probably be capable of moving around in system, they would not likely have been a target in Oyster Bay.
For that matter, military-spec freighters using LAC modules for testing would get those LAC modules tested at the same time.