As I see it, they tell “Mason’s Merchants” (truthfully) they have to kick this upstairs, to buy time to send an infiltration team to talk to people in those communities to get details on the MM’s current AND PAST actions. It’s possible only SOME of them lived up to the name Marauders. A thousand square miles sounds like a lot, but it’s about a 31×32 mile square.
1000 square miles is a lot, but not even as much as the county I live in, which is El Paso County, Colorado. less then half actually. 1000 miles is about the size of Road Island.
Actually, if they are claiming control and ownership of that much territory, then that is a lot.
Bearing in mind that there is no organized Government, per say.
Basically you currently have organized City States, and a great deal of unruly and hostile countryside.
This scenario is describing an early feudal empire, which is what PeterCat’s Post Modern society now is.
One where the Kings and Chiefs and Warlords may have laid claim to “all the land that the eye could see”, but in reality, it is comprised of probably not much more, and more likely, much less.
The Dragon Empire had a head start over the competition, basically because you had a group of Preppers, on Steroids.
This actually makes a lot of sense when you study Militarily history, as a promotional subject.
From the fall of Ancient rome, until the rise of Napoleon, there was no real Standing Army.
Where in this context, a Standing Army was owned and controlled by the State, and was both trained and paid for, by the State.
Prior to Napoleon, what you had were Privateers, Mercenary’s and Militia.
Blessed by the local Royal, and with their consent, in most cases, or more commonly, with the aid of Chiefs and Warlords of large Clans and Groups, but undisciplined and murderous land pirates all, none the less.
All of which had varying degrees of Training, and most had little if any.
What’s more, they tended to raid those locations they marched through, out of necessity.
To show a better example is to look at maps of Medieval Europe and England.
The local ruler was usually a Duke, or equivalent.
Most ‘Empires’ and Kingdoms were half the size of the Mason Brothers.
What’s more, outside of the Walled City State, or rather, the local Fortified Town, there was no Law and Order.
A medieval Garrison was around two Platoons worth. A medieval Army was around a thousand men. That was also big for it’s day.
The rest were peasants, trained as basic infantry, raised up when, and as required.
The Legion is the law enforcement outside of the walled city. With support from the Navy, primarily gunships and supply.
Jerico’s walls are the rivers on two sides and the nearly impassible mountain range to the north, which the Army guards.
South Jerico, however, does have walls.
There is no need for the Legion to forage.
One reason the feudal states could only provide law and security close to their walls was a lack of rapid communication and response,
and a lack of fast, long-range mobility.
Not a problem in a modern world.
It’s more of a British Empire where any colony is encouraged to become a kingdom, and the separate kingdoms remain loyal because they benefit from the relationship, and would be
lessened without the interlocking relationships.
The situation with Catia may be seen as colonization, but unlike the British, every Catian became a citizen by Imperial decree, with all of the rights, privileges, and duties of any Imperial citizen,
anywhere,and the Empire will protect it until the citizens of the planet either form a kingdom within the Empire or vote for full independence.
The Empire does not rule by force, any Kingdom that wishes to do so may exit. But there are too many benefits to remaining.
Marine Three didn’t report on the SIZE of the hatches. But to me, MANY implies missile silos rather than bigger ships. Either way, it looks like this stage of the war is gonna be a lot bloodier than the last. Unless somebody TALKS to somebody. Against a silent enemy that strikes without warning, with their security blanket fleet either complacent or complicit, the Lamians HAVE to scramble everything they have left. Remember, they still don’t know THEY started this. No declaration of war has been issued. (I know, bygone era, hasn’t been a formal declaration of war in sixty years or so. I think the last one was from the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.)
The only tactical problem I can see here, is that one or two “Rod’s from God” would both nullify the threat and also decimate the Moonbase.
This would have the same strike capacity as a Small to Medium sized Asteroid.
No Bang, No Flash, but a fair sized Kinetic Punch, and a pretty big hole.
For comparison, just check out the history of our own moon, with smaller and slow moving Space Rocks.
However, even conventional explosive weapons would do serious damage to their Moonbase, as they have clearly made a serious Tactical mistake.
This is the infamous Security through Obscurity defense model.
Not advertising the fact that you have a Moonbase, isn’t the same thing as keeping it secret.
As for the convenience of having all of their Moonbase weaponry in the same location, which makes for easy maintenance, management and security, it is far outweighed by the problem of a single Tactical strike scenario.
Worse, if the Cat’s get in the first few shots, then the Moonbase Commanders problems only cascade from there.
If they are missile technology, they will take a few hours to reach the Planet. That’s a long time to present as a target for destruction..
Then of course, what are the Weapons pointed at, their own Planetary Military Base’s and other “High Value” designated targets?
So, regardless of the outcome, if even one of these Weapons reach the surface, then the resident Planetary population won’t be happy after the dust settles, and the bodies of friends and family have been buried..
The only threat the Council could see is their own Navy. The moon base is sufficient for a surprise attack against it, as long as it’s presence is a secret.
Any outside attack the Navy would be expected to deal with. I doubt if they would see a need to attack planetary targets, at least at first. Their Army
would be expected to respond to hostilities on the surface.
More details tonight and Friday.
I keep trying to turn the top part of the rock behind the girl in the vote incentive (directly over the bow) into a crouching leopard-like critter with better camouflage, to explain the look of fear in her face. Some of the shapes look right, but I can’t make it out. Am I imagining things? It would make the title even cooler.
Good. No big cats with near-octopus-level camouflage ability. Or that of the Sasquatch family at the end of Harry and the Hendersons. At least until I inadvertently gave you the idea. Way scarier than a smoking bear.
As I see it, they tell “Mason’s Merchants” (truthfully) they have to kick this upstairs, to buy time to send an infiltration team to talk to people in those communities to get details on the MM’s current AND PAST actions. It’s possible only SOME of them lived up to the name Marauders. A thousand square miles sounds like a lot, but it’s about a 31×32 mile square.
Teresa understood the possibilities when she created the Legion, good and bad. Next page…
1000 square miles is a lot, but not even as much as the county I live in, which is El Paso County, Colorado. less then half actually. 1000 miles is about the size of Road Island.
Actually, if they are claiming control and ownership of that much territory, then that is a lot.
Bearing in mind that there is no organized Government, per say.
Basically you currently have organized City States, and a great deal of unruly and hostile countryside.
This scenario is describing an early feudal empire, which is what PeterCat’s Post Modern society now is.
One where the Kings and Chiefs and Warlords may have laid claim to “all the land that the eye could see”, but in reality, it is comprised of probably not much more, and more likely, much less.
The Dragon Empire had a head start over the competition, basically because you had a group of Preppers, on Steroids.
This actually makes a lot of sense when you study Militarily history, as a promotional subject.
From the fall of Ancient rome, until the rise of Napoleon, there was no real Standing Army.
Where in this context, a Standing Army was owned and controlled by the State, and was both trained and paid for, by the State.
Prior to Napoleon, what you had were Privateers, Mercenary’s and Militia.
Blessed by the local Royal, and with their consent, in most cases, or more commonly, with the aid of Chiefs and Warlords of large Clans and Groups, but undisciplined and murderous land pirates all, none the less.
All of which had varying degrees of Training, and most had little if any.
What’s more, they tended to raid those locations they marched through, out of necessity.
To show a better example is to look at maps of Medieval Europe and England.
The local ruler was usually a Duke, or equivalent.
Most ‘Empires’ and Kingdoms were half the size of the Mason Brothers.
What’s more, outside of the Walled City State, or rather, the local Fortified Town, there was no Law and Order.
A medieval Garrison was around two Platoons worth. A medieval Army was around a thousand men. That was also big for it’s day.
The rest were peasants, trained as basic infantry, raised up when, and as required.
So, context is King.
The Legion is the law enforcement outside of the walled city. With support from the Navy, primarily gunships and supply.
Jerico’s walls are the rivers on two sides and the nearly impassible mountain range to the north, which the Army guards.
South Jerico, however, does have walls.
There is no need for the Legion to forage.
One reason the feudal states could only provide law and security close to their walls was a lack of rapid communication and response,
and a lack of fast, long-range mobility.
Not a problem in a modern world.
It’s more of a British Empire where any colony is encouraged to become a kingdom, and the separate kingdoms remain loyal because they benefit from the relationship, and would be
lessened without the interlocking relationships.
The situation with Catia may be seen as colonization, but unlike the British, every Catian became a citizen by Imperial decree, with all of the rights, privileges, and duties of any Imperial citizen,
anywhere,and the Empire will protect it until the citizens of the planet either form a kingdom within the Empire or vote for full independence.
The Empire does not rule by force, any Kingdom that wishes to do so may exit. But there are too many benefits to remaining.
I shall say I sort-of called it. Until further information appears.
Called what?
I posited last page that they wanted to coexist / cooperate with the empire.
Marine Three didn’t report on the SIZE of the hatches. But to me, MANY implies missile silos rather than bigger ships. Either way, it looks like this stage of the war is gonna be a lot bloodier than the last. Unless somebody TALKS to somebody. Against a silent enemy that strikes without warning, with their security blanket fleet either complacent or complicit, the Lamians HAVE to scramble everything they have left. Remember, they still don’t know THEY started this. No declaration of war has been issued. (I know, bygone era, hasn’t been a formal declaration of war in sixty years or so. I think the last one was from the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.)
They had Great champagne!
The only tactical problem I can see here, is that one or two “Rod’s from God” would both nullify the threat and also decimate the Moonbase.
This would have the same strike capacity as a Small to Medium sized Asteroid.
No Bang, No Flash, but a fair sized Kinetic Punch, and a pretty big hole.
For comparison, just check out the history of our own moon, with smaller and slow moving Space Rocks.
However, even conventional explosive weapons would do serious damage to their Moonbase, as they have clearly made a serious Tactical mistake.
This is the infamous Security through Obscurity defense model.
Not advertising the fact that you have a Moonbase, isn’t the same thing as keeping it secret.
As for the convenience of having all of their Moonbase weaponry in the same location, which makes for easy maintenance, management and security, it is far outweighed by the problem of a single Tactical strike scenario.
Worse, if the Cat’s get in the first few shots, then the Moonbase Commanders problems only cascade from there.
If they are missile technology, they will take a few hours to reach the Planet. That’s a long time to present as a target for destruction..
Then of course, what are the Weapons pointed at, their own Planetary Military Base’s and other “High Value” designated targets?
So, regardless of the outcome, if even one of these Weapons reach the surface, then the resident Planetary population won’t be happy after the dust settles, and the bodies of friends and family have been buried..
The only threat the Council could see is their own Navy. The moon base is sufficient for a surprise attack against it, as long as it’s presence is a secret.
Any outside attack the Navy would be expected to deal with. I doubt if they would see a need to attack planetary targets, at least at first. Their Army
would be expected to respond to hostilities on the surface.
More details tonight and Friday.
I keep trying to turn the top part of the rock behind the girl in the vote incentive (directly over the bow) into a crouching leopard-like critter with better camouflage, to explain the look of fear in her face. Some of the shapes look right, but I can’t make it out. Am I imagining things? It would make the title even cooler.
Sadly, no. I didn’t think of it.
Good. No big cats with near-octopus-level camouflage ability. Or that of the Sasquatch family at the end of Harry and the Hendersons. At least until I inadvertently gave you the idea. Way scarier than a smoking bear.
Oh, you’ve given me many ideas…