SharkHunter wrote:I think that most of the Sector Governors... don't give a s--- about the Core Worlds, as long as Frontier Fleet keeps their OFS Protectorates suitably cowed and subservient. They'll give lip service to the Mandarins etc. but the real problem isn't the sector governors anyway, it's the Transtellars. We're told that they have been in bed with Mesa for generations; one of the early battles for control of the Manticoran Wormhole was against Axelrod -- not the League as a whole.
So... let's assume that FF isn't thwacked immediately... You're a sector governor with no more carrying capacity EXCEPT with either the Transtellars OR Manticore. One allows you to keep your current corrupt rake off until things come apart completely, one essentially buys you off like they did the Confederacy and says "no more exploitation, but we won't kill you".
Which way each Verrochio etc. bounces is anyone's guess. Assuming that the MAlign doesn't get to them first.
JohnRoth wrote:
Verrochio is in jail, and if Admiral Henke doesn't cut the Mesan transstellars off at the ankles, I'll be very surprised.
There are other transstellars that are based in the Core. Also, a lot of the sector governors have been very carefully primed to secede once Maya does.
saber964 wrote:
I don't think so on the other sector governors seceding, unless the might be part of the MAlinment or RF. Most are going to get caught flat footed and only able to use whatever FF forces are in sector when everything goes to hell. The Maya sector has been preparing for years and probably decades. They have the core of a decent sized navy and significant industrial base. With the help of Erewhon and covert support from Haven and possibly Manticore. Also the Madras sector just got yanked out from the SL and for the short term be protected by the SEM/RMN. What I figure is SKMy will shortly get a few dozen LAC per system for local defense. A short time later the RMN will turn over some of the captured SLN ships, this will mostly be light units like DD and CL's.
Mission of Honor, Chapter 39 wrote:Which meant they were absolutely essential. When the Manties hammered the SLN into wreckage yet again—when the carefully primed "spontaneous rebellions" broke out in a dozen places simultaneously in the Verge as the League Navy's reputation crumbled, and when the score of Frontier Security governors who'd been carefully prepared by their own versions of Aldona Anisimovna followed the example of the Maya Sector and unilaterally assumed emergency powers in order to "protect" the citizens of their sectors—the men and women around this table with Albert Detweiler would emerge as the leaders of a new interstellar power.
The Alignment's strategists had picked the name for that power—the Renaissance Factor—decades ago, and the exquisitely orchestrated crescendo of disasters would "force" them into taking steps to protect their own star systems from the tide of anarchy. They wouldn't call themselves a star nation—not immediately—but that was what they would be. And, in the fullness of time, when it was obvious to the entire galaxy that they were simply responding to the catastrophic, totally unanticipated disintegration of the League, they would finally, regretfully, exercise their constitutional right to secede from the League and formally assume their position as a sovereign star nation.
