found a use for the ex-Sollie SD.

HB of CJ wrote:If the Grand Alliance (GA) had any long term planning sense, perhaps they will just hang onto all the various sized captured Sollie warships. There must be many uses for which they could be used, both short term and long term. However, there may be a problem with that.

HB of CJ wrote:If I were ordered to "slag down" a captured enemy warships computer and weapon systems, just how would I do so?

HB of CJ wrote:Would I also receive orders to do such with a notion or idea or potential for future use out of the aforementioned Sollie warship?

HB of CJ wrote:What does "slag" mean?

HB of CJ wrote:If the Grand Alliance (GA) had any long term planning sense, perhaps they will just hang onto all the various sized captured Sollie warships. Ther must be many uses for which they could be used, both short term and long term. However, there may be a problem with that.

If I were ordered to "slag down" a captured enemy warships computer and weapon systems, just how would I do so? Would I also receive orders to do such with a notion or idea or potential for future use out of the aforementioned Sollie warship? What does "slag" mean?

If it meant just making sure the captured warship was not going anywhere and not shooting anything, then it may be possible to just "decommission" the various computer systems throughout the ship. Physical destruction may not be required, nor desired.

But....the problem with that is that it may be possible to undo whatever was done. Therefore it would also be necessary to physically disable the weapons systems. My fear again is that all of these captured light Sollie ships may end up having a nasty use sometime in the future.

Just me. HB of CJ (old coot) Lt.Cm. But, they could be put to good use also. It all depends upon the future situation. The Dark Ages are coming after all the shooting stops.

Lord Skimper wrote:2 converted for rich bored SEM people. 28 for rich company officials in the league, should be a few of those. That right there would pay for the rest of the 100.

Mind you you could probably sell 80 of them to various Sollie companies, intact as is. Not only would a company, or several of them, want such a ship which battle fleet wouldn't sell to them, in the best of times. Once things start falling apart, well this might even be better than converting them. Keep one or two for personnel use refitted etc....

namelessfly wrote:

Lord Skimper wrote:2 converted for rich bored SEM people. 28 for rich company officials in the league, should be a few of those. That right there would pay for the rest of the 100.

Mind you you could probably sell 80 of them to various Sollie companies, intact as is. Not only would a company, or several of them, want such a ship which battle fleet wouldn't sell to them, in the best of times. Once things start falling apart, well this might even be better than converting them. Keep one or two for personnel use refitted etc....

As the SL disintegrates and newly independent, former SL systems realize that there simply are not enough SLN DDs much less CLs, CAs, or BCs and certainly not DNs and SDs that might be recruited or acquired to provide security for newly independent systems, there will be a huge demand for slightly used, SLN SDs that have been surrendered only once.

Even if these systems don't have a trained navy to effectively operate these ships in combat, they will serve as a deterrent to piracy or invasion if they can be operated and maintained well enough to appear to be combat capable.

Think of them as scarecrows.

namelessfly wrote:

Lord Skimper wrote:2 converted for rich bored SEM people. 28 for rich company officials in the league, should be a few of those. That right there would pay for the rest of the 100.

Mind you you could probably sell 80 of them to various Sollie companies, intact as is. Not only would a company, or several of them, want such a ship which battle fleet wouldn't sell to them, in the best of times. Once things start falling apart, well this might even be better than converting them. Keep one or two for personnel use refitted etc....

As the SL disintegrates and newly independent, former SL systems realize that there simply are not enough SLN DDs much less CLs, CAs, or BCs and certainly not DNs and SDs that might be recruited or acquired to provide security for newly independent systems, there will be a huge demand for slightly used, SLN SDs that have been surrendered only once.

Even if these systems don't have a trained navy to effectively operate these ships in combat, they will serve as a deterrent to piracy or invasion if they can be operated and maintained well enough to appear to be combat capable.

Think of them as scarecrows.

pokermind wrote:With luck in the next Honorverse book David will send them to the breakers for metal and usable components putting a stake through the heart of this topic. His comment quoted many times are they are useless outdated equipment for naval use, they require too many crew and have all that useless armor as useless mass for civilian use. Remember the second law of thermodynamics you don't get nothing for nothing and moving that excess mass besides taking valuable space makes use as cargo transports uneconomical.

Poker

dreamrider wrote:There are no SLN DNs. Haven't been for centuries.

(Unless you count all their SD's as DN's - unfair to real DN's however <grin>.)

dreamrider