garfield wrote:SWM wrote:I don't think anyone here believes it won't be bumpy.
I agree. RFC wouldn't have put all that advanced weaponry in Nimue's cave if it wasn't going to be needed.
Not every apparent Chekhov's Gun gets to go bang. The Cave was stocked on the bases of (1) what they figured Nimue could conceivably need, but mostly (2) what they could sneak in. That advanced weaponry could just be making that point, or keeping us guessing. Or, for that matter - these are not mutually exclusive - it could be in the Cave just to preserve it for after the Reveal, as some examples of Terran Federation fighting technology to use for comparison and study. Whole starships were supposed to do that job. Langhorne deep-sixed that plan, but the assault shuttles could represent the best they could still do along such lines.