The big impediment to having military 'up' will be the costs of keeping them up their. They're going to need a base, which is going to have to be built, which is going to have to be supplied. Then you're going to have to supply your spaceship. There's also the costs of conversion and construction to military standard, contractors bilking as much money as possible out of the system. So while the SS Ciara was bought for scrapiron value, and waved using funding from a disgraced banker looking for a quiet place to avoid a fraud investigation/conviction, it'd cost billions to retrofit a small-ish functional US warship, let alone a fricking aircraft carrier.
The big obstacle to the military in space is that it costs a lot of money to get assets up there, when you live down the well. And that's with mundane problems usually being far more pressing.
There're better ways to project power and influence than with a gunboat....
Open space is something like the open ocean.... everyone's ship has the right to go anywhere, outside of special areas surrounding claimed asteroids and settlements. It's just, it's expensive to send a large military presence up there unless you have a specific reason to send them there. China might be solely protecting it's airspace from another 999 incident, and the Russians might have a flag-waver for diplomatic missions, and to match the United States. It might not even be Naval.... The British may well send a retrofitted Vulkan with a love for logic, or just a Concorde as the Royal Spaceship....
The big countries also have a lot to think about when it comes to accidentally provoking a response from the other side, since they're also so inter-dependant on each other.
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The big obstacle to the military in space is that it costs a lot of money to get assets up there, when you live down the well. And that's with mundane problems usually being far more pressing.
There're better ways to project power and influence than with a gunboat....
Open space is something like the open ocean.... everyone's ship has the right to go anywhere, outside of special areas surrounding claimed asteroids and settlements. It's just, it's expensive to send a large military presence up there unless you have a specific reason to send them there. China might be solely protecting it's airspace from another 999 incident, and the Russians might have a flag-waver for diplomatic missions, and to match the United States. It might not even be Naval.... The British may well send a retrofitted Vulkan with a love for logic, or just a Concorde as the Royal Spaceship....
The big countries also have a lot to think about when it comes to accidentally provoking a response from the other side, since they're also so inter-dependant on each other.
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