robkelk Wrote:Anybody involved with this group ask whether the Grover's Corners folks want to be part of something that big, or whether the Warsies are willing to give up control of New Yavin, or whether Noah's willing to let someone else set rules for Stellvia? Because if you don't have the three biggest stations on-side, you're fighting an uphill battle...
M Fnord Wrote:Well, tbh the CFA types are looking more towards the future, when nonaligneds and/or fendanes rule the roost in the cislunar. The CFA is banking on the construction & settling of a bunch of High Frontier-style orbitals, which could boost the local population by a few hundred thousand easily *and* probably wouldn't have any direct ties to the major factions. It's a gamble and as you said an uphill battle, but it might work out for them.Uh-huh. Well, that's part of what Stellvia Contingency Plan #3 is for...
M Fnord Wrote:Or not. That's what we get to decide, after all.In which case Contingency Plan #3 can stay on the shelf.
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