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I tend to agree with the opinion that there was almost too much advanced tech "introduced" into the Reunification War era. The Periphery simply didn't have that many Mechs and such. Yeah the Star League was technologically superior but I just don't buy that all that Level 2 was intro'd by then. Don't get me started on warships. ...

introduced, but it was still very much limited production until the golden age era

The question being are all these factors happening because someone or something made them happen or is it just bad luck (or good luck depending on the way you look at it)?

If you believe the Cyrano entry in TR3050 Upgrade Comstar's Operation Holy Shroud did conduct operations in the Periphery- supposedly Comstar was responsible for the destruction of the Cyrano factory on New Vandenberg.

If on the other hand you chalk this up to the WOB trying to manipulate the TC (they wouldn't do that would they?) then it gets a lot harder to justify the loss of L2 tech in the TC, since even if worlds like New Vandenberg were open to pirate attacks, the Hyades Cluster wasn't raided during the entire SW period so there is no reason why the TC would have lost their knowledge to pirate raids.

4) The Amaris Coup started with a massive recreation of the Reunifacation Wars, that dropped the SLDF's capabilities by a third.  such actions would have seriously depleted the Peripheries industrial and military capabilities, but when you are fighting for freedom...

Post-revolution reconstruction expectations probably didn't include the fall of the Star League or the Succession Wars. It's kind of a kick in the pants for the poor Taurians.

Oh well.

And yet every SB, including Era Report 2750 say that the TC was best prepared for the Succession Wars. (whatever exactly that means- it's not fully spelled out.)  I would take it to mean that during the Coup and years before the 1st SW, the TC managed to rebuild vital industries (those building water & fusion plants) and stockpile much needed supplies.

And/or that they understood that they shouldn't fight against the Successor States as long as they didn't threaten the Taurian Concordat.

Quote from: Knightmare on June 18, 2012, 11:49:43 AM

Post-revolution reconstruction expectations probably didn't include the fall of the Star League or the Succession Wars. It's kind of a kick in the pants for the poor Taurians.

Oh well.

And yet every SB, including Era Report 2750 say that the TC was best prepared for the Succession Wars. (whatever exactly that means- it's not fully spelled out.)  I would take it to mean that during the Coup and years before the 1st SW, the TC managed to rebuild vital industries (those building water & fusion plants) and stockpile much needed supplies.

"Best prepared" sounds like a well equipped boy scout roaming Yellowstone. They may be ready to weather a rough winter, but that doesn't mean it was survived with GPS and high-tech gear.

I think you're probably right. The Concordat was probably able to rebuild much of the infrastructure lost during the Coup with local equivalents (and/or also stockpiling parts). Using local replacements would place them in a better situation than their Inner Sphere counterparts, because of the tech disadvantage...

Interesting thought. Thanks Mad. 

You've also got all those systems in the Cluster that is difficult to navigate the Taurians probably had the best defended capital until someone dropped a big rock on it

Don't get me started on that Dragon Cat.  The Taurians, whom the Powers That Be have consistently and mind-bogglingly have labelled as paranoid-obessive to the point of psychosis, the people who have an entire arm of their armed forces devoted to Asteroid Service, somehow don't notice when people with no business in their system begin playing around with asteroids and rocket-thrusters?  What?  What?

Now, either the Taurians are stubborn, paranoid, SOBs obessed with House Davion, who are willing to go to extreme lengths to protect their worlds (human wave attacks, civilians with bombs, WMDs, etc.) with a 5,000-man strong elite-rated Special Asteroid Space Force or . . . they're not.  In the latter case, yes, the rocks fall everyone in Samantha City dies thing can happen.  But in the first case?  First rock that starts to move in a way that orbital mechanics doesn't allow for (they have had SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS to chart any and all errant rocks in their HOME system, after all), and a horde of DropShips, aerospace fighter carriers, and small craft would be swarming over that 'troid before it move so much as a million kilometers.

Yeah, yeah, yeah; I've heard people suggest that there were 'stealth' sytems on the asteroids that prevented them from being picked up on sensors.  But that does jack for telescopes, which are the primary means of watching your own local space for errant rocks from the heavens.

And then they blame it on the Davions with no explanation of how the Fed Suns could have gotten a team into place and do this.  Ignoring the WOBbies (in SPAAAAAAACE) who just so happen to have this restored WarShip named Vengeance fully stocked with nuclear missiles for you to take your revenge.

Don't get me started on how much the current regime has screwed with my Taurians.

Master Arminas