US Navy options for the future--probably stating the obvious.

[robkelk]

As for the Mikasa... I can't see it. That one really is a museum ship, it'd be like waving the USS Constitution and taking it to space.

"Hey! Why don't we wave the USS Constitution and take it into space?"

"Are you nucking futs?"

"Asks the person who came up with the names for the Hornblower-class, the Aubrey-class, the Bolitho-class..."

"Stifle it."

Random Crazy Fennish Idea: US Naval (Air) Station, Europa. Hey, there's oceans there. That means it's Navy territory.

"All these worlds are yours, exept Europa. That one's the Navy's."

China seems to want to REALLY minimise contact with the Fen.

History shows that the oldest nation on Earth, no matter who runs it, is not accustomed to taking directions from anyone. Neither are the Fen. The Chinese are very good at solving this sort of problem - ignore it and it will go away. (It always has, in the past...)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012