HRogge Wrote:People in this forum stopped responding to drafts from other people. When I posted the Normandy I had expected at least some concerns about its main gun... and hoped for some "in universe" controversy or discussion. But nobody cared.
Still, I think the taxonomy of armed spacecrafts overshoots what we might need for Fenspace.
Perhaps we should have the discussion, then.
In the early days of Fenspace, almost nobody went armed, and the exceptions were not well-respected.
Then came the Boskone War. "Everybody" started mounting weapons on their spacecraft for protection. The ones who had them earlier were thought of in a better light than they were before the war.
Then the war ended. The ship-mounted weapons... (how do we complete this sentence?)
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