On 18Jun2020 0304, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml
list) wrote:
> One thing that really bothered me about The Rebellion was that a > backwater domain like Illelish suddenly had all those enormous
fleets > to deploy.
Against the Core Fleet, which would almost certainly be all about the
brass and the chrome. While it's not up with Vland (let alone the
Solomani Rim), Ilelish has quite a few hi-pop worlds. That said, the
only really large and effective fleets are probably the Solomani Rim
fleets (the Marches, Corridor, coreward Vland, and Daibei will have
experienced fleets, but probably not super-large ones), because it's the
heavily developed sector with a hostile peer just over the border.
Looking at sector populations, the Rebellion probably only lasted
because the Solomani jumped in and thus pinned the Solomani Rim fleet
down. Then everything fragments, because the new Emperor not only has a
dodgy claim (survivable) but has just shown himself to be ineffective
(not survivable), so the fence-sitters go independent.
Of course the core problem was Dulinor's lack of guts. If he'd stayed in
Capital, sitting on the throne, he might've sold his coup. As it was, he
admitted he'd failed when he fled.
Works for me.
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Actually the Core Fleet was probably the most modern & advanced, IMO.
Plus you had at least two frontier fleets, Old Expanses & Corridor that just picked up & shipped out, back to Core.
Which is why those two sectors went down so easily.
And that doesn't even count any other fleet elements that followed orders.
Illelish was still a backwater with no real reason to have such large fleets.
Wouldn't have had a chance.
When Dullie fled it was an act of desperation that should've been played out that way.
All that money would have been spent on all the other ways that govs like to spend money to garner support.
Nope,the rebellion definitely does NOT work for me.
Just way too much of a contrivance.
But then this was the same brain trust that then had the Virus brainstorm, isn't it?
Anyone who was on the TML when LW broke the news about that isn't likely to forgot the cries of protest that ensued.
But then both 'ideas' were actually the same and went like this;
"We're tired of this old house so let's burn it down so we can build a new one!"
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