Re: UN Fleet Size: (was Nominal Taxation Rates)

Beth Fulton wrote:

> As to the UN...

> I'd interrpreted the
> GZG-fiction to suggest they were kick-ass now and that they KEPT the
peace
> in the Inner systems and we're just ABIDED by - OK they'd get kicked
if
> they tried to do the same in the outer systems, but in the Inner
systems
> they are a serious body

Concur.

Maybe it's because in the Inner systems there are always a dozen or so
mass 300 UN System Defence ships, plus the mobile fleet?
 
> (most people
> responding to the poll saw them as as much of a token force as they
believe
> the UN is today, begs the question as to how they did keep the Solar
Wars
> out of the Inner systems then).

I never thought of them as a token force, more the case that there are
Command and Control problems due to their forces coming from a wide
variety of backgrounds. A UN Admiral (on secondment from the ESU)
commanding a Commodore (on secondment from the NAC) is likely to cause
problems at certain times. Even an IAS Commodore commanding a mostly PAU
crewed squadron would find difficulties every day.

I, for one, figured that the relatively small OUDF "regular fleet" (as
opposed to the much larger semi-civilian patrol fleet) spends a lot of
its time in company with UN vessels. In fact, the OUDF could be (and has
been?) called an independent flotilla of the UN in the outer
colonies.... much like the current RAN is for most intents and purposes
a DESRON of the US 7th Fleet.

Hey, a CRURON here, a SuperDreadnaught there, and soon you have a real
fleet. Several real fleets. Numerical advantage vs even the NAC about
3:1, too bad they can never get their act together so the fight would be
about even.
 
> Just some slightly relevant raving for you.

Favour returned, with Interest....

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