On 18Jun2020 1703, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml
list) wrote:

> Actually the Core Fleet was probably the most modern & advanced,  > IMO.
But it's also not seen any sort of fight for centuries. It's there to
stop a new round of Barracks Emperors, but has had no need to do
anything for ages. It might have new kit, but let's face it - for
decades and more it's main use will have been parades and a place to put
high born but useless officers until they 'retire' to the high life in
Capital or their estates with a suitable array of medals.

> 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.
The Corridor fleet is going to be mostly fairly small units, as it's
main job is controlling Vargr piracy and raiding, and there's a shortage
of good basing there.

> Illelish was still a backwater with no real reason to have such large  > fleets.
You never know what might come in through the Rift, you know. And it's
not really a backwater - there are a lot of hi-pop worlds there.

Remember also that Lucan, military genius that he was, allowed himself
to be distracted by Strephon's return (or his clone, body double,
android copy, or whatever), and all the other new factions and spread
his forces, rather than concentrate on one thing at a time.

--
Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>