[GZG] UNSC Workings

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k said:
"Except given that the K'V actually make it to Sol and cause the Siege
of
Sol in 2194, I'd be inclined to think that the UNSC got complacent about
the
"K'V menace" until it was too late to actually make a realistic stand
against them, and got chewed piecemeal. The remnants of the UNSC, as
well as
those of the other Major Powers, have to combine in order to throw the
K'V
out of Sol. And everyone gets whittled down a bit."

Or, same data, different picture:

Initially, the UNSC encountered the KV. They kept it under wraps because
they didn't know what they had. Then reports leaked out to the major
powers
who were initially fairly skeptical too. The major powers also haven't
seen
the UNSC in a heavy showdown (unlike the ESU, NAC, and others who've
been
slamming away at Solar Wars for a long time) so they tend to think of
them a
bit as 'sound and fury signifying nothing'. So they figure 'we can
handle
them'.

The KV, for their part, are a bit unpredictable and strike hard here and
there. The humans have some challenges managing their encounters due to
technological differences and tactial differences.

Eventually, the UNSC starts to majorly mobilize, but they can't manage
repulsing the invader on their own. And some of the others are Solar War
weary and still paranoid about working together. This translates into
political suspicion and foot dragging and then interoperability problems
and
trust issues on the battlefield. The net effect of this is to render the
mid-term response rather poorly coordinated and ineffective.

Finally, even the big nations realize that this is an 'all hands on
deck'
scenario and they and the UN start really cooperating. By that point, it
is
late in the game and Battle for Sol is inevitable.

Note in this model that the UN may have tried to organize a response
earlier, but it was the delaying and suspicion between the other major
powers that slowed up and gutted the response (such as the cases where
fleets have ships of multiple nations with different ROE - I recall
examples
from the canon timeline).

It all depends how bad you want the UN to look vs. the nation-bloc
powers.

TomB

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