Behemoth Crew Compliment?

[floundericiousMI]

Who?

HOW MANY PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THE MANIAC!? HUH!? Oh, what...no one?!

 

[McGruff]

I have to disagree with that - Neither the Behemoth nor the T-bomb would truly satisfy Tolwyn. The problem is, in neither plan do we outfight the Kilrathi, instead we exploit their unstable homeworld and a convinient backdoor jump point. In a straight fight, humanity will lose, because the Kilrathi are the better warriors.

What Tolwyn wanted to see was the confed fleet beating the Kilrathi all the way back to Kilrah, the marines taking the planet by force and then all other Kilrathi worlds similarly conquered. What he got instead was the confederation beiing beaten, but winning through trickery. You cant count on the next enemy having a vulnerability like that.

The pendulum of conventional combat went both ways during the war. Before the false peace, it was the Kilrathi who were losing and used trickery to exploit a vulnerability.

 

[ChrisReid]

I have to disagree with that - Neither the Behemoth nor the T-bomb would truly satisfy Tolwyn. The problem is, in neither plan do we outfight the Kilrathi, instead we exploit their unstable homeworld and a convinient backdoor jump point. In a straight fight, humanity will lose, because the Kilrathi are the better warriors.

What Tolwyn wanted to see was the confed fleet beating the Kilrathi all the way back to Kilrah, the marines taking the planet by force and then all other Kilrathi worlds similarly conquered. What he got instead was the confederation beiing beaten, but winning through trickery. You cant count on the next enemy having a vulnerability like that.

The only reason the Kilrathi had the upper hand in 2669 was their trickery with the false armistice. The Confederation was extremely close to winning the war conventionally a year earlier.