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French = Severanti
Aretha = Steele
... I couldn't help myself. :p
Lorric:
The more I think about this the more I think French's strategy seems foolish. This was a core system. It's suddenly no longer one. It's not going to have a deep defence, and the CRF should be coming in hard and fast. It's also extremely valuable to the Delest, they'll feed in more and more forces as time goes on, the CRF need to clear the system and secure the starlance/s.
I'm also wondering about the Delest people in the system. If they're vat-grown, won't that mean they are compelled to resist? I don't see how the CRF is taking the system without exterminating the whole population. Then they'll have to bring in their own people, and that seems like it would dwarf the expenses of rebuilding a handful of space installations.
Enioch:
As was eloquently said by our kind producer:
--- Quote from: Spoon on April 04, 2017, 10:13:28 am ---Speculate away!
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And, from a personal standpoint #activediscussionmakestheauthorhappy.
I can and will answer this, though, because it's sorta-kinda basic universe 'knowledge' and not exclusive to this plotline:
--- Quote from: Lorric on April 11, 2017, 08:05:39 am ---If they're vat-grown, won't that mean they are compelled to resist?
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Vat-grown loyalty to the Emperor/Empress is near-absolute, from what I've been given to understand. Add to that the desire to protect the vat facilities in Hoseki and you would have, indeed, a major part of the population (not the entirety of the population, mind you) being as fanatically resistant to occupation as you can get.
That doesn't mean that the authorities won't give the order to evacuate the system if the war takes a turn for the worst. Vat-grown civilians and soldiers represent a major investment of time and resources on behalf of the government (and on behalf of their clans / Branches / families). Moral issues aside, it would be stupid to order them to die if the system is clearly lost. Better arrange for a surrender and a population evacuation under flag of truce.
Lorric:
Hmmm. That makes me think it must be a lot more expensive than I thought to pump them out. I thought the facilities would be extremely valuable but the people themselves would be basically expendable drones not worth the expense of shipping out as well as the expense that accomodating an enormous influx of people into new areas would bring.
Enioch:
Vat-grown people are far from drones. Many of them are indistinguishable from natural born at first glance.
Growing someone in a vat grants two major benefits, which make the vat facilities invaluable: first, you accelerate growth massively. The best vat facilities can grow a person from zygote to 18-year-old-equivalent maturity in 2 years. Of course, granting such a person the skill, experience and social savvy of a natural-born and -grown person is tricky and expensive (and in some cases flat-out impossible); and young vat-grown people can be...childish in some ways, despite looking like they're young adults. Which is why they usually start off from low-responsibility positions and move up.
The second benefit is that you make young people when the government thinks it needs young people. The Delest have, by definition, no demographical problems.
The vat-grown people might be, in average, less creative than natural borns (because imagination and blind loyalty don't mix too well) but they're not meat robots.
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