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Re: Last use for SL SD captured
Post by Fox2!   » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:31 pm

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zuluwiz wrote:So what are they going to do with them? Here's my idea: give them back to the Sollies. Imagine the effect on Sollie public opinion. "We don't need or want this trash, ours are way better." Do this very publicly, then sit back and laugh. Would the ISLN dare to not recommission them? How much trained manpower and resources would that suck up?


Just announce that you are towing them into orbit around some planetless K-type star and leave them there. Maybe leave a couple of stealthed CAs to make sure some ne'er-do-well doesn't come along and try to make off with them.
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Re: Last use for SL SD captured
Post by Theemile   » Fri Apr 28, 2017 11:03 pm

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Ok, here is probably the first genuine idea for the SLN SDs in awhile.

We paint them brown, package all the captured ones together, and sell them as the universe's largest set of Lincoln Logs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Logs
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Re: Last use for SL SD captured
Post by Lord Skimper   » Sat Apr 29, 2017 3:47 pm

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False flag operations. Sail,them into any system that has a lesser Frontier fleet, tell them you are taking over then offer the planet the option for a plebiscite to join the Grand Alliance or remain as part of Solly space under frontier fleet. FF will be pissed but will also have to leave when a dozen grand admirals (jk but not by much) show up on 6 SD's. They will return to Earth to complain but who cares. Use Peep crews and you can take just about every shell and rim world.
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Re: Last use for SL SD captured
Post by Dauntless   » Sun Apr 30, 2017 8:57 am

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zuluwiz wrote:So what are they going to do with them? Here's my idea: give them back to the Sollies. Imagine the effect on Sollie public opinion. "We don't need or want this trash, ours are way better." Do this very publicly, then sit back and laugh. Would the ISLN dare to not recommission them? How much trained manpower and resources would that suck up?


that is evil! i like it! though i would take all their small arms and Marine equipment before i gave the ships back.
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Re: Last use for SL SD captured
Post by zuluwiz   » Sun Apr 30, 2017 1:55 pm

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From what I can see, the main effect of giving back the prizes would be on Battle Fleet morale, which would shrivel and die. The spacers would see that their only hope of surviving contact with the Grand Alliance would be to surrender immediately. Frontier Fleet morale would also suffer, thought perhaps not as badly. The effect on civilian morale would not be much, as the Sollie media would spin the news their way. But the Fleet would know, and fear.
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Re: Last use for SL SD captured
Post by Lord Skimper   » Sun Apr 30, 2017 6:17 pm

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Could just go and park them unannounced in a Solly system. Just show up, park them and leave. Leave it to the Sollies to figure out. Confuse the heck out of someone.
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Re: Last use for SL SD captured
Post by Daryl   » Sun Apr 30, 2017 11:25 pm

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To save lives and missiles, leave them there but with a well hidden off switch, that responds to a coded signal.

Lord Skimper wrote:Could just go and park them unannounced in a Solly system. Just show up, park them and leave. Leave it to the Sollies to figure out. Confuse the heck out of someone.
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Re: Last use for SL SD captured
Post by George J. Smith   » Mon May 01, 2017 4:11 am

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The trouble with taking them anywhere, other than using tugs to tow them to a breakers yard, is getting enough people to operate the systems needed to make the journey. The basic operation of most of the systems will be similar, but sufficiently different to take time to become familiar with, and the GA need their spacers for other duties.

I don't even think the merchant crews sitting idle would be enough to "fly/sail" the Sollie SDs anywhere.
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Re: Last use for SL SD captured
Post by MAD-4A   » Mon May 01, 2017 10:11 am

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Fox2! wrote:IIRC, about all that's left of the original USS Constitution is [a portion of] her keel. All the rest of her has been rebuilt over the centuries. Yet she is still considered the oldest commissioned warship afloat (HMS Victory being in dry dock makes her only the oldest commissioned warship).

Exactly, it's the old mop question, If I have a mop, the mop head gets worn out so I replace it, a few days later I accidently break the handle and replace the handle, is it the same mop, answer - yes.
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Re: Last use for SL SD captured
Post by Duckk   » Mon May 01, 2017 10:14 am

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MAD-4A wrote:Exactly, it's the old mop question, If I have a mop, the mop head gets worn out so I replace it, a few days later I accidently break the handle and replace the handle, is it the same mop, answer - yes.


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