Re: Fighters....Re: Full Thrust vs Starmada

>even with a religious directive to enable them, a force  would have a
hard
time affording to train a huge number of expendable "crew".... The
strikeboat concept is a fun one to play with sometime, but it's not
truly
viable in a "real world" way.

At the high end, say 200 strike boats with 10 crew each, total 2000 out
of
a population of at least a billion.  Add in official government
encouragement, either indirect ("your five year old looks like a sweet
girl, it'd be a shame if something was to happen to her") or direct
("your
vessel doesn't have FTL, so if you want a ride back, you'd better win"),
and you'll get crews. And most of the strikeboats are on patrol duty and
therefore not expended anyway. I think the platform cost is more likely
to
be the problem, but YMMV, of course.

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