Well the way i see it the GTVA will either increase its trade and building potential or will do nothing and wait for everithing to collapse !
Also i believe some ppl here mistake what we called new trade and mining nodes as separate from jump nodes. They are one and the same ! Anyway im too tired now to explain just look it up in the wiki.
Also the GTVA lost quite the number of capships meaning mostly destroyers and cruisers . but then again they still have enough destroyers left the only problem is the destroyers they have left are so streched all over GTVA space you would be lucky to see one for weeks perhaps more then 1 month.
I mean you have what 30-40 destroyers total which i got the impresion were not enough by a long shot since they were kinda building up as the NTF rebellion started. Especially the Vasudans which had to replace ALL of they destroyer fleet except perhaps 3 or 4 older models.
The terrans were pretty much at the same stage with the Orion beeing phased out replaced etc. However what they did have and what they were building in massive numbers compared to the destroyer classes were corvettes. The vasudans got a jump start on the terrans and im pretty sure must of had a hell of a lot more !
Remember the corvettes were meant to replace the cruiser completely . So that mean a hell of a lot of corvettes.
So the GTVA is not in such a bad shape. Sure with the loss of what i believe to be about half of the destroyer fleet they had it is a serious blow and would obviously determine a withdraw and the perception of a defeat . But then again lets not forget who did the most damage.
sure the Shivans blew up a start sistem bu the NTF really grinded down the GTVA war machine. I mean you had a total of what 10 or 15 destroyer lost in the war with the NTF alone.
And while im pretty sure the GTVA has the abilliti to build them fast destroyers are not the only things that need building. Also pumping out destroyers in such massive numbers equiping them and so on would put a great strain on the economy . I mean think about it they would have to pump out about 3-4 destroyers every 2 or 3 months . You might say that that is not a lot. But when you are thinking that they have to build corvette develop and build new fighter designs in massive numbers train the crews etc the costs start mounting up really fast . Even so when faced with the shivans its not such a big cost. but they were not facing the shivans they were facing the NTF !
Overall the GTVA stil is in one piece more or less. So getting back on track should not be too hard. even if faced with economic hardship that doesn't mean the whole economic sistem has collapsed. It can mean that they are unable to sped as much as they did before an economic regression of sorts.
