RE: Retrograde skirmishers

>That's what orbital and planetary defenses with real firepower are for.
 If
>anything decloaks at close range to a planet, it's probably not going
to
>survive.  Cloak-capable ships are _expensive_.  They give up a mild
advantage
>to uncloaked ones on mass of weapons and a very dramatic advantage to
them
>on cost of delivering those weapons in a ship to the front.  (As much
as
>25%.)	It's true that they're very dangerous if you get caught out of
>position with them.  It's also true that you can't just use them up
like
>popcorn by firing at planets instead of their defenses due to their
cost.

In my campain the Dreadplanet would cost the entire tax base of 100
major
star systems for a year.  With that kind of costs how do you buy such
heavy
defences too?