It would make more sense if they had planned on the veritechs being hybrid support/macro-infantry and intended to develop some kind of dedicated space superiority fighter (or capital missile) if they had the time.
I suspect they intended to be doing guerrilla style combat from the start. I imagine there was very little faith in being able to keep them off-planet when they had exactly one ship that had a chance against the enemy.
Hilariously, thats a realistic strategy that would have entirely failed against the Zentraedi, as they were entirely willing to slag the planet entirely.
A veritech is probably never going to be an optimum fighter design, because its carrying around a whole bunch of mass that is just dead weight when its trying to be a fighter.
An "optimal space fighter" in setting would probably be something like half the size of a veritech, despite the same size power plant and *multiple* times more weapon/ewar capacity.
I suspect they intended to be doing guerrilla style combat from the start. I imagine there was very little faith in being able to keep them off-planet when they had exactly one ship that had a chance against the enemy.
Hilariously, thats a realistic strategy that would have entirely failed against the Zentraedi, as they were entirely willing to slag the planet entirely.
A veritech is probably never going to be an optimum fighter design, because its carrying around a whole bunch of mass that is just dead weight when its trying to be a fighter.
An "optimal space fighter" in setting would probably be something like half the size of a veritech, despite the same size power plant and *multiple* times more weapon/ewar capacity.