The logistics of SLN commerce raiding

Weird Harold wrote:

cthia wrote:Fortunately for me, RFCs latest snippet supplies such a node... Technodyne. There must be other similar military soft spots as well.

Technodyne -- at least their facilities at Yildun -- are already on the priority target list. At least they should be. Not particularly because they are a prime supplier to the SLN, but because they were directly involved at Monica and on the Mesa Board of Directors.

Technodyne's military production facilities are a legitimate target for a variety of reasons. Their toaster and washing machine factories in the Wolf Cluster (or whatever and wherever they build stuff for civilians) isn't a legitimate military target.

cthia wrote:BUT! Admittedly! Since one of you may be adopted, I might as well admit that I'm in favor of sending Eighth Fleet into Solarian space and asking for a surrender.

Patience, Grasshopper.

Surrender of an intact Solarian League is the LAST thing the GA should be working for. The only route to long-term survival is the dissolution of the Solarian League.

The Sol System has a few legitimate military targets, like the SLN base at Mars or the BF Reserve. Conquest and Occupation of the Mars Base might be how Honor meets Kingsford face to face, but otherwise anything in the Sol system has "Public Relations Armor."

There's not really anything leaving the Sol system except orders. The threat is the BF and FF units executing those orders. All of the action and priority targets are elsewhere.

Brigade XO wrote:

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The Sol System has a few legitimate military targets, like the SLN base at Mars or the BF Reserve. Conquest and Occupation of the Mars Base might be how Honor meets Kingsford face to face, but otherwise anything in the Sol system has "Public Relations Armor."

There's not really anything leaving the Sol system except orders. The threat is the BF and FF units executing those orders. All of the action and priority targets are elsewhere.

Occupations of Mars base falls under the heading of A REALLY BAD IDEA. You want to put feet on the ground at the next planet out in the same system as EARTH? Your people are all going to die down there if you do that.

I might even go along with a deep raid that shot any SLN warship it could from just outside the hyper-limit (and hang around with hot nodes just long enough for all those deeper in the gravity well to "have" to rise to the bait or be branded cowards by all those uptanding SL citizens on Earth watching the miserable performance of the 800lb syphilitic gorilla with dementia) before moving on to better hunting grounds.
Brings to mind the taunting scene from "The Holy Grail" Your mother was a hampster and your father smells of Elderberry wine!!!

NEWSFLASH!

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you this new development...

The nasty barbarians have overrun the Mars base. One of the oldest bases in League territory. In the Mother System.

ldwechsler wrote:

cthia wrote:What exactly is the importance of the Mars base? Manufacturing? Training? It's probably simply a front for rich, sick sexual deviants. I wouldn't be surprised if many Mesan slaves are found there.

The Mars Base is the logistics command for the entire fleet. Rajani was out there a lot. It is a key center for planning.

I greatly doubt there are a lot of slaves there. Manpower's slaves were kept on special planets. Having them on Terra or on a key base could lead to major problems. What happens if a genetic slaves escapes the base and gets to Earth? Would that person be free? Sending a slave back would be a real black eye for leaders.

But it is a key base. And it is in space which means it is a legit target. And if there's fighting, the navy can destroy it along with every key logistics person in the League. That should mess things up completely.

And if it surrenders, imagine what could be found in its computer records.

Theemile wrote:The base around Mars is called Hyperion one. It is the main node of the SLN BattleFleet and the largest reserve fleet formation.

Brigade XO wrote:
Occupations of Mars base falls under the heading of A REALLY BAD IDEA. You want to put feet on the ground at the next planet out in the same system as EARTH? Your people are all going to die down there if you do that.

I might even go along with a deep raid that shot any SLN warship it could from just outside the hyper-limit (and hang around with hot nodes just long enough for all those deeper in the gravity well to "have" to rise to the bait or be branded cowards by all those uptanding SL citizens on Earth watching the miserable performance of the 800lb syphilitic gorilla with dementia) before moving on to better hunting grounds.
Brings to mind the taunting scene from "The Holy Grail" Your mother was a hampster and your father smells of Elderberry wine!!!

cthia wrote:What exactly is the importance of the Mars base?

filbert wrote:Is a complete blockade of the Sol system within the capabilities of the GA?

Weird Harold wrote:

filbert wrote:Is a complete blockade of the Sol system within the capabilities of the GA?

Probably. A couple of wings of LACs plus one or two SD(P)s with lots of spare pods.