Maybe we should go over the list of resources available to the Fen in March 2011. I know there's more than this; these are the highlights.
The Fenspace Convention: Exists, and has signed the Treaty of Kandor (which means Kandor City also exists).
The "Big Six" factions: Exist. Their resources are spread thin, and are mostly devoted to establishing their points-of-presence - Utopia Planitia, Mos Eisley, Hogsmeade, Serenity Valley, and Crystal Kyoto are still all under construction. Nobody knows what if anything the Fivers are doing.
SS Ciara: Up. Possibly the group in the best position to do anything useful in this situation - they can get supplies in and wounded out more quickly than anyone else in Fenspace at the time.
The Blue Blazers: Either exist or are about to exist (maybe this is the incident that brought them to public notice?). No Thunderbird 5. Probably no Go-Phones.
The Sammies: Exist, but are only able to take part in space rescues at this time.
The VVS: Still Ptichka and her original crew. Home base... I'm not sure (might have already moved to Kandor by now?), but not the big installations at Korolev or Black Mesa. Not really set up for S&R work, but could still help out.
StellviaCorp: Not yet called StellviaCorp, except in the articles of incorporation. Stellvia Trading has a single ring station (built from Shuttle tanks) and a core module (built at Luna), a small auxiliary station where the resident madgirl can work without putting everyone else's lives at risk (re-deployed as a command post for the search-and-rescue operations), two spacecraft (only one of which is suitable for disaster relief), and some interests in the new town of Crystal Titusville that have yet to produce anything useful. Concentrating on improving relations with the 'Danelaw and the Senshi. Burning through their capital - the hotel's still under construction. Pseudo-faction membership totals seven: Noah, Jake, Yoriko, Yayoi, Sora, Kohran, and (just-hired) Kelly.
The Roughriders: Not yet in existence. No fancy paid-for-by-OGJ base on 36 Atalantae. No Magnificent Midnight. Just Ben, Gina, and the Bullet Boy Express.
Grover's Corners: Still part of rural West Virginia.
OGJ, CGI: Not yet in existence, or even imagined.
--
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
The Fenspace Convention: Exists, and has signed the Treaty of Kandor (which means Kandor City also exists).
The "Big Six" factions: Exist. Their resources are spread thin, and are mostly devoted to establishing their points-of-presence - Utopia Planitia, Mos Eisley, Hogsmeade, Serenity Valley, and Crystal Kyoto are still all under construction. Nobody knows what if anything the Fivers are doing.
SS Ciara: Up. Possibly the group in the best position to do anything useful in this situation - they can get supplies in and wounded out more quickly than anyone else in Fenspace at the time.
The Blue Blazers: Either exist or are about to exist (maybe this is the incident that brought them to public notice?). No Thunderbird 5. Probably no Go-Phones.
The Sammies: Exist, but are only able to take part in space rescues at this time.
The VVS: Still Ptichka and her original crew. Home base... I'm not sure (might have already moved to Kandor by now?), but not the big installations at Korolev or Black Mesa. Not really set up for S&R work, but could still help out.
StellviaCorp: Not yet called StellviaCorp, except in the articles of incorporation. Stellvia Trading has a single ring station (built from Shuttle tanks) and a core module (built at Luna), a small auxiliary station where the resident madgirl can work without putting everyone else's lives at risk (re-deployed as a command post for the search-and-rescue operations), two spacecraft (only one of which is suitable for disaster relief), and some interests in the new town of Crystal Titusville that have yet to produce anything useful. Concentrating on improving relations with the 'Danelaw and the Senshi. Burning through their capital - the hotel's still under construction. Pseudo-faction membership totals seven: Noah, Jake, Yoriko, Yayoi, Sora, Kohran, and (just-hired) Kelly.
The Roughriders: Not yet in existence. No fancy paid-for-by-OGJ base on 36 Atalantae. No Magnificent Midnight. Just Ben, Gina, and the Bullet Boy Express.
Grover's Corners: Still part of rural West Virginia.
OGJ, CGI: Not yet in existence, or even imagined.
--
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