Quote:I disagree.
Boskonian Zwilnik Reavers
Because... I think that the Danelaw would've done it first.
Probably most of them are still sitting in museums across the US - if a bit more carefully monitored than they used to be.
In ther real world, there are a few still in active use, which are of questionable utitility given other developments in the field of reconnaissance. There are another few in mothballs at Lockheed. There are rather more in USAF museums, being pretty for the camera.
So. You're the Federal Government. Leaving aside questions of paranoia and control-freak tendancies, even if most of these wierdos are harmless at worst, some small few of them are actively malevolent. It is your job to make sure that those few don't harm the people under your care.
Let's assume that you've got all the tried and true, trustworthy measures in place, and are doing all you can to learn about how to improve them. But there's a chance, a good chance, that that won't be enough.
But you have tremendous resources in terms of money and information and people, and among those last are doubtless going to be no small number who are both sufficiently Fennish to work well with wavetech and sufficiently trustworthy even by the most paranoid of standards.
So, wavetech is wierd and unreliable, so it'll never be your primary line of defense, but it can also do things that are otherwise impossible - which means that it's only good sense to use its abilities, for whatever purpose.
So, among your resources you can count a very large share of the hardtech capable of threatening a wavetech craft - you're already bankrolling most of the world's research into weaponised lasers, for instance. You also count a number of airframes explicitly designed to go very very faster than anything else, to do it without getting caught, and, maybe, if need be, to carry a weapon or two while doing so. They're quite famous for the first two, and, given some of the theories running around in even the most credible of Fen, that might be a valuable factor.
Best of all, they're not much good in their current role any more, having been... not superseded, really, but sidestepped by other technologies. You could use other types, of course, but those almost all have other uses, and... it really does fit well.
So, all in all, you're likely to want to use them.
And you've got first crack at them.
...
Well, it makes sense to me.
Ja, -n
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