Originally posted by Penguin
Fishbone: I believe that NASA is testing the mach 7 plane now. They'll definitely have worked it out by 2060.
pendell: Superior numbers do not hand one victory. I seriously doubt that the bugs enjoy any truly substantive advantage over us.
side.
Look at the losing tracks of WCP and WCP:SO. In both
cases, Casey and co. were just a few minutes too late
to close the wormhole. And both cases result in Go
Directly To Kraken Blowing Up Confed HQ In Jupiter Orbit.
Casey and Co. are heroic, but not heroic enough -- if the
bugs are able to get a full-size strike fleet through,
that is All She Wrote. Confed CANNOT defeat the full
size alien fleet -- we've seen what happens in the losing
tracks when it tried.
Why would the aliens want to try accomodation? Because
although we can't break into their space, if we can
identify the potential anomalies leading into their
space we can fortify them to an extent that the aliens
would find it Very Expensive to conquer Confed. Hopefully
expensive enough that they'd be willing to talk terms
instead of going for outright conquest.
Aw heck .. we KNOW that there's gonna be an Achilles heel
that our heroic band will exploit, and Save the Confederation due to the bravery of a small, but
determined band of heroes. After all, this is Wing
Commander, not Risk.
Someone else said the Steltek couldn't intervene because
they were too far away ... maybe so, but distance doesn't
mean the same thing to the Steltek as it does to us.
ISTR they were able to travel from Surtur to Delta
Prime in one jump, so their ability to cross large distances
is greater than ours. I suspect that they could intervene
should they wish to.
Respectfully,
Brian P.