Were you playing the same Silent Threat I was?
Originally posted by nuclear1
The Krios was not just simply the only loyal GTI Destroyer or battlegroup in all of Silent Threat.
Basically, we can't just assume that all GTI ships were hostile, and were all involved in the Hades Rebellion, despite what the Command Briefings said in Silent Threat. There were still a number of GTI forces willing to support the GTA and bring down the Hades Rebellion.
The Soyakaze was a regular GTA navy ship. How do I know this? It's quite simple, really. Reference your first Command Briefing in Silent Threat. The Krios is the
only GTI destroyer. Or at least, the only GTI destroyer that the GTA knows of. It follows from this that any other GTI destroyers are
not loyal ships, because the GTA does not know of their exsistence and certainly wouldn't approve of them if they did know.
And yes, we can assume that, because you don't declare the entire intelligence arm of your organization to be traitors without a damn good reason. Particularly since once they had done so, the GTA was essentially blind. Note the lack of significant intelligence in your last few Silent Threat missions. You don't know what's going on. Nobody in the GTA knows what's going on. That's GTI's job.
Also the GTA suddenly lost access to
all advanced GTI equipment, which only makes sense if both the people who had it (GTI pilots) and the people who made it (some other section of GTI) had absconded with the equipment, the plans for it, and the necessary manufacturing gear.
Or how about the fact that the GTA knew
nothing about GTI once it became clear GTI was not behaving in a friendly fashion? Surely if there was a loyalist destroyer, hell even a loyalist cruiser, they would have been able to gain a wealth of information. Instead they had jack diddly. They were deaf, dumb, and blind. They didn't know anything about GTI's intentions, capablities, deployments, current research, even who was working for GTI and who wasn't.
Any GTI capital craft would have had the location of the Jotenheim Installation in their database. But no such ship came forward to provide that information, so instead it took a boarding action against a Faustus to acquire that information.
Originally posted by nuclear1
How do you explain the Hades then, you ask? A Superdestroyer about roughly the size, technological advancement, and power of the Lucifer would simply have taken a good deal of time to create, and, during which, the rogue element of the GTI would have simply seized control of the SuperDestroyer for their own means.
The Hades was constructed in a remarkably short time. Less then three years at most. For a ship integrating technolgies from two totally dissimilar races and dwarfing in scale any previous Terran construction, this almost stretches credulity. The only thing that makes it feasible is that GTI had actually secured the help of Shivans, some Shivans anyways, to assist them.
Originally posted by nuclear1
And the Hades, while powerful as it was, could not have simply overthrown the GTA on its own, even with the entire rogue GTI armada behind it. Many factors, including Hammer of Light attacks, Shivan insurgence, and GTA/VPE counterattacks, would have simply overwhelmed the rogue GTI, and put the Hades into a similar position as the Auriga from Derelict: pinned down, and somehow just barely able to escape.
Actually, it could.
With a Shivan sheathe-shielding system, the Hades is effectively invincible. Throw all the Harbingers at it you want, ram it with an Orion. It won't care. Armed with Shivan weaponry like that of the Lucifer, it is capable of reducing a world to ashes in fourteen hours.
Had the Hades ever gone fully on-line, that would have been the end of it then and there. The sheathe-shield doesn't work in subspace, true. But therein lies the hook: the Lucifer was ultimately killed by its own stupidity. Had it remained behind to engage the Bastion and the Bastion's aerospace group, destroyed them, and then headed for Earth, Earth would have been glassed.
One cannot expect GTI to be so foolish, particularly since they know that the Lucifer was killed by that error. They will be more careful.
Unbeatable in normal space, the Hades can roam around a system, destroy anything that poses a threat to it in subspace, impose its will on any populated worlds or glass them, and then move on to the next system once it is safe to do so. Make no mistake: this a weapon uniquely suited for domination, not defense.