RE: Communication and Travel

A secondary consideration is that a colony will *probably* use 2nd or
3rd tier technology for it's defense forces. I mean imagine trying to
engage a battalion of American M1 or British Challengers with Russian
T-34s or German Panthers! Those particular tanks were stupendous for
their era, but compared to a Chobham armored turbine driven tank armed
with a hypervelocity smoothbore that is deadly accurate at 40 mph over
terrain coupled with realtime satellite recce....

Michael Wikan, Game Designer
Accolade, Inc.