NCS response to NI (a bit longish)

On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 08:54:41 -0500 "Izenberg, Noam"
<Noam.Izenberg@jhuapl.edu> writes:
>Aside
>from finding it and infiltrating it undetected (forcing your way in
>would be pretty bloody), you'd have to be able to speak and code
>fluently in Hebrew (without a southern drawl ;-)  )
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That thars uh fuhr cumment ya'll.

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>Cloaking tech would be _much_ easier to get than stealth.
>Again, Sale or parallel engineering is another matter.
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Perhaps so.

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>Yeah, the NCS inflitrator was booted uncerenmoniously from the 
>facility,
>so he went and bought it from the NI Dep't of Military Trade. Now, 
>how
>he justified the missing credits from the Intelligence budget.. 
>_that's_
>classified.
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Shhhhhhhhh, the Budget and Finance Commitee doesn't know about that
little escapade................

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>_I_ know it was a joke. I just don't want to promote NCS delusions of
>grandeur. And if a pasting of a squadron of theirs is what that will
>take, then so be it. ;-)
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Grandeur?  Delusions?  What Delusions?	I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD, NO,
KING OF THE GALAXY, NO, KING OF THE UNIVERSE, NO, I'M GOD, YEAH, THATS
IT! HUH?  WHAT?  NO, NOT THAT, NOT THE NEEDLE!!  NO, NO, no, nononono,
noooooo........snoooooore.................

8^)
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What bridled me was the _method_ of obtaining the 
>technology,
>since I would like to have it that infiltrating the skunkworks backed
>and protected by 60+ years of paranoia would be beyond any 
>intelligence
>group short of the big 2. 
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Okay okay, I give in.	 8^)

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>If a system/rule is balanced, it's not ubertech. 
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Thats true.

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>That being said, some minor powers (like my conception of NI) base 
>their
>survival in part on being on the technological cutting edge. That has
>enabled their survival and allows them to compete economically in a
>galaxy dominated by the big 4 - they can create/produce things that 
>the
>big 4 can't or won't. [Historical] NI would have economically 
>collapsed
>without profit from military sales and mercenary operations during 
>the
>hard times of the 1st and 2nd solar wars. It would have been 
>destroyed
>outright in 2173 by the numerically superior IF force if not for
>superior technology.
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Now that makes perfect sense.  The NCS paid seriously during the first
Solar War, trying to be a player rather than a manipulator.  That
experience, along with sitting right in the path of the KV invasion has
them moving hard and fast towards the NI's style of ship construction
and
combat.  Probably only a small portion of the fleet will use stealth
though.  They certainly won't be building anymore of the monstrous Lee
class battleships for now.  On that note, heres that ship in FB stats,
it
really is a monster.

NCSN General Robert E. Lee class Battleship.

Mass 380
Cost 1238
Strong Hull
Hull Integrity 38/38/38/38
Crew Factor 19
Ratings 304
Officers 76
Armor 20
Standard Sensors
4 x Firecon
6 x Class 4 (three arc)
4 x Pulse Torp (F)
2 x PDS

The Lees are meant to form the core of heavy battlegroups.  The only
example is the flagship of the NCS Home Fleet.	No others of the planned
class of four ships have been started, nor are they expected to be.

How bout this?	The NCS agent buys the tech from NI, then engages in a
series of exercises to practice with it on their newer ships? 
Interested?

Jim Clem
Full Thrust Site http://www.geocities.com/area51/stargate/2891/ncs.html

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