(Besides, your reasoning is off... the Border Worlds most certainly were not able to take on the Black Lance)
Raptor: disabling the Lexington was a success, but all it enabled them to do was run away. Destroying the Vesuvius was only possible thanks to Confed support (TCS Mount St. Helens). And finding the base and uncovering the conspiracy would have amounted to nothing had Blair failed in the Senate. You wanna see how the Border Worlds would really fare against the Black Lance? Try "only fools rush in" .
Originally posted by Quarto
Raptor: The point of that ending is that it showed what chances BW had once the Black Lance was unveiled and unleashed. Yes, most of the ships were Confed, but how much do you think they would have to do? Confed forces would arrive at a planet, to find a few survivors of the Gen-Select device. The Border Worlds Militia would have been squashed by flash-pak carrying Lances/Dragons. Why didn't this happen during the crisis itself? Because the Black Lance didn't want to reveal their weapons on a full scale. Had the Dragons been used offensively against Border Worlds military ships, Tolwyn's 'blame it on the Border Worlds' theory would have been shot down as well.
Originally posted by Quarto
It... didn't... need... an army. Four squadrons of flash-pak wielding, gen-select-carrying Dragons should have been enough to cut the Border Worlds fleet into little cat-chunks. We're talking about fighters who can uncloak five metres in front of a target, fire off a flash-pak, and re-cloak. And yet, they didn't do anything - why? Because they weren't allowed to reveal themselves. Because when you're trying to blame some for something, it would be pretty damned stupid to attack him with your super-secret terrorist organisation's super-secret fighters.
Originally posted by Nep Parth
Ah, time to utilize my half-baked Black Lance knowledge...
The BL probably could have taken the Border Worlders. What with their cloakable ships, if they were smart, they could have decimated the BW fleet with a good strategic use of the Flashpak. On the other hand, the BW did have a "mongrel fighting spirit". But, that's useless against a Flashpak.
The BW got a break in getting the data Eisen had, in acquiring the Princeton, and in having the greatest non-genetically-engineered ace this side of the sector. If they didn't have even one of those breaks, they would have been plastered when they tried to make a run on Earth to state their case.