Re: India, GZG-style and Aliens

Alan Brain wrote:

>The KV have different Clans, but all seem to use the same set of ship
designs.

IMO this should be "The KV have a myriad different clans; and while the 
small number of clans humanity has encountered to date all seem to use 
roughly the same set of ship designs we don't know anything about what 
designs the clans we *haven't* seen yet might use".

Even when you start mixing in the new (FT42x and 43x) ships, you don't
know 
if this represents the previously encountered clans getting new ships, 
newly encountered clans with both known and previously unknown designs,
or 
previously encountered clans with known designs getting reinforced by
newly 
encountered clans using previously unknown designs (the latter being
very 
similar to how human ships from several different navies get thrown into
ad 
hoc task forces during the Xeno War, and with similar C3 problems caused
by 
poorly suppressed inter-service rivalries, lack of command systems 
integration etc.) :-/

>The Phalon "Conglomerate" implies a union of radically different
societies
>embedded in a common cultural matrix - but they have the same set of
ship 
>designs.

Same as above, but replace "KV" with "Phalon".

Later,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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