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Confed's rookie pilots would be better trained then the UBW's rookie pilots, but the Border World's also had access to it's own pool of Kilrathi War veterns and the pilots who had started in the system defense forces would be used to using older craft. And being an older model isn't always a bad...

It's been years since I read the guide but I could swear that it referred to them as an off-shoot of the Church of Man.

The part I quoted. I remember RF talking about the organization of the Retros, but I don;t remember anything saying that the Church of Man and the Retros are the same.

Is there anywhere that the above is actually stated?

Close but wrong. The Retros are a renegade cult that started as part of the Church of Man but spilt off because they wanted to force all of humanity to live by the Church of Man's beliefs concerning technology.

I thought so but wasn't entirely sure because of all the 27th century Ion weapons, the Ion Cannon, the Ionic Pulse Cannon, the Chain Ion Cannon, and IIRC the Reaper Cannon, the Ionic Pulse Cannon is the only one never used alongside the Ion Cannon. You have Reaper Cannons and Ion Cannons both...

Are Ion Cannons and Ionic Pulse Cannons just two different names for the same weapon or are they actually two different weapons?

But they had FTL-travel pre-jump drive, jump drives are just much faster. In fact according to the Jump FAQ the Pilgrim Alliance was formed before they developed the first Jump Drive. What gave the Pilgrim Alliance it's power over space was the treaty with Confed which gave them control of all...

The VW Hippie class Supercarrier!

I wonder what the guns would have been if it had appeared in SM2

Neutrons followed by Tachyons and Fusion. And for some reason I always had a fondess for some of the Kilrathi-only guns from Armada.

She did, she just waited until it was far too late to help the population of Telamon to do so.

Okay but that brings up some new questions. 1: The BW forces in the novel mention arresting her for having bio-weapons. Why did she have them or did Tolwyn have them planted so that she would be arrested and easier to find? 2: Why would Tolwyn want to let an enemy agent anywhere near the...

I thought that Eisen's contact was Intrepid's captain.

Very well conceding that the UBW We see the UBW launch two during the fighting, Speradon and the rush to Earth. We see Confed lauch two attacks on Intrepid, and the attack on Tyr which could have been what led to the UBW withdraw from Confed. The Confed was not entirely on the defenseive, and...

Various game spoilers ahead The greater good though my view of what the greater good is sometimes leads me to the darker path. For examples in WCIV I chose Hawk's path when deciding whether to raid a shipyard or reinforce an allied planet, and Panther's path at the Superbase. In both...

We know that they formed the UBW, without the actual text of the declaretion we don't know exactly what they said. They could have said that they were leaving Confed and forming the UBW, or they could have said that they were already independent, they were forming the UBW, and Confed needed to...

And I pointed out the difference between UBW, and the CSA. The states that tried to found the CSA had legally joined the United States, and signed the US Constitution. From what the WC IV novel stated the planets that formed the UBW never legally joind Confed and had never signed the...

It started as a discussion of the diplomatic situation between Confed and the UBW after the events of WCIV, then moved to a discussion of the Intrepid and how and why Confed got it back, then moved to a discussion of whether or not the UBW planets were legally part of Confed or if they were...

Part of the debates that are going on during WCIV is whether or not the Border Worlds are really part of Confed, or if they're independent planets that were allied with Confed like The Free Republic of Landreich was. Given the final results it's pretty clear which side won.