Hi ArmySGT,
I hope the internet won't swallow this post like the first one.
Thank you for thinking.
There was some discussion about Nuncio and Anhur at Baen's Bar back in 2005 (with about the same response) but keep digging, you may find gold yet.
A couple of nits are in order; the freighters full of tech, teachers, prolong and medical support etc in THotQ back in 1902 PD; they were practically given to Grayson to ensure it joined the alliance, while the freighter construction yard at Blackbird mentioned in EoH was a straight business deal, very different than the original aid package.
Such targeted aid packages were often outright gifts to get neighbors to join the Manticore Alliance, and helped many members achieve much higher prosperity for their star systems, though Grayson has outdone them all apparently.
Given that history of aid, and Nuncio's proximity to the Lynx terminus [only 160 LY] and Spindle [~105 LY], NTM its small population of only 350 million, or the 'busy' survey teams mentioned in SoS, Nuncio should be among the first to receive prolong [or LAC's] etc right along side Dresden or Tillerman [SoF textev] and the other special help it needs without the likely dead end of concentrating on the Anhur, since reverse engineering something has often bogged down modernization efforts of those who tried it, as the soviets and Chi-coms demonstrated repeatedly.
Since the Anhur was taken August 25, 1920 they had barely 6 monthes to examine Anhur before becoming the Talbot Quadrant; while it was some 2&1/2 years before OB to send the Emerald Dawn's survivors home and repair the ship [probably with an RTU repair ship] and return it to its owners with the state-sec being sent to Erewhon almost immediately, meanwhile receiving all the aid they needed, including all that was sent before OB but not yet delivered [I doubt Honor's convoy was the only one sent to Grayson].
The Hexapuma wasn't the first RMN ship to visit Nuncio, nor the last over the next few weeks as Terekhov indicated, with at least 2 dozen in the cluster at the time.
One of the first things I would expect from Medusa would be enough db's, in effect official newsies, to provide almost weekly news updates to the TQ members to promote their identity with the SEM and each other, which whether SEM or bought in the cluster would require dozens of db's besides 3-4 stationed in each system to warn Spindle and its neighbors, so contact with the rest of the quadrant should be rather constant, NTM the news from ships going to or from the terminus along its axis that it can add to its own reports.
So I think its far better off already than what you may have thought.
But definitely interesting times,
L
ArmySGT. wrote:Let's think about what systems or components are still whole and operable aboard what is RHNS Anhur.
Things, if not something operable right as is, are available to be dismantled and reverse engineered for study.
The plug and play module. While this has been harped on as something to offset the poor education of the average Havenite conscripted naval rating, it has an advantage. A system easier to repair if you are able to pull it out and put in something that works under stress like, say combat. Another, that a system would have the ability to be incrementally upgraded, thus extending the useful service life.
RADAR/LIDAR tracking components. Anyone with any system defense needs to protect what it fields. Pulling these from the hull for reverse engineering and having the computers to run simulations on the NSN (Nuncio System Navy?) gets a leg up on the new reality of missiles in the current era.
Electronic Warfare Systems. Even the second line stuff is light years ahead of the SLN, and any pirates operating in the Verge. Studying these first hand is a benefit.
The Havenite Military Grade compensator. The hulk isn't going anywhere. Pulling this out and dismantling for study with all the manuals and technical material available too jump starts local manufacture of their own and probably better civilian grade ones too.
Environmental/waste recycling. These are big and omplex systmes and get only worse with sxale. Having suh a large system to look at boosts knowledge in future habitats and ships of their own.
The Simulators... Using the systems as a base others like Space Traffic control, orbital smelting, and fleet or squadron exercises is a start. The goes over to civilian uses like pilot training or advanced education in STEM fields.
Now, when, if ever is Nuncio going to get this great big whopping, all encompassing, I told you it would happen uplift program?
Next year? In five years? 20 years? Never, ever.
Manticore lost all that manufacturing with the losses at Yawata, the fleet engagement with Filareta, and more.
They don't have a surplus to be generous with to poor, back of beyond, 200 years behind, simple people like the half billion of Nuncio.
Moreover, the Grayson package was NOT a gift. That was a trade deal and Grayson worked hard to pay for it.
Using either as a reason for why Nuncio would not or could not use the RHNS Anhur to locally advance themselves is at best a logical fallacy based more on entrenched opinion than fact.
