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Starter question: Defence satellites and starforts, good idea? Or are mobile system defences better?
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Parker Stewart
Isaac Sullivan
>Defence satellites and starforts, good idea? Or are mobile system defences better?
Depends. Most landed-based species are use to working with combat in 2 dimensions, rather than 3, so even in space when they have all 3 to work with they still have a habit to operate in 2. So, it's easy to take advantage of that train of thought, but it's not the end-all-be-all.
Josiah Collins
>so even in space when they have all 3 to work with they still have a habit to operate in 2.
What makes you say that?
Jordan Martin
>Defence satellites and starforts, good idea? Or are mobile system defences better?
I prefer the idea of big fucking orbital railguns, preferably with tubes for nuclear missiles or Casaba Howitzers bolted to the sides. Space CIWS optional.
Beside that, any Planetary Defense Force worth mentioning should have a fleet of dedicated system defense vessels. Failing that, Navy surplus should suffice.
Noah Anderson
Centuries, if not millennia, of being use to Naval and ground-based Warfare.
The closest thing we have to actual 3-dimentional combat are submarines and fighter jets, and even then those are rarely used in comparison to the rest of the military and people have to be specifically trained to take advantage of the 3rd available dimension. And even with that extra training we, as a traditionally land-locked species, have never had a natural avian predator so we've never had an imperative to take the 3rd dimension into account, except for idle curiosity and speculation.
Daniel Morris
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Justin Moore
>Starter question: Defence satellites and starforts, good idea? Or are mobile system defences better?
They're cool as hell, but when void warfare becomes an instituitionalised thing then mobile will take over. Or at least semi-mobile, with series of maneuverable platforms rather than one bigass station. This is assuming that space warfare doesnt immediately go down the colony drop route. Tossing planetoids at other planetoids will never end well
Charles Miller
>so even in space when they have all 3 to work with they still have a habit to operate in 2
That would explain why I suck at ground-based videogames and shred assholes like it was my dayjob in flight sims and space games with 3D combat, I guess.
Jaxson Moore
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