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Topic: How the Kzer-za could have won the war (Read 7350 times)
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Grand Master Planet Eater
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I know it's against the rules for them to get their battle thralls to help, but what about reverse - engineering their technology and equipping it on their ships? They could also use the technology from fallow slave races.
Imagine a fleet of dreadnoughts that can cloak, use point - defense lasers, transform to blazer form, launch limpets and DOGIs, use Yehat shields, warp backwards, use the Syreen song (with Syreen slaves aboard, of course), regrow Mycon crew members, use the Thraddash afterburner, transform (or if that is too difficult to do with a Dreadnaught, just give it some of those long range missiles), fire B.U.T.T missiles, etc.
Even with inferior numbers, they could kick the Kohr-ah back to their homeworld easily
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Draxas
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Ur-Quan arrogance would never allow them to admit that they might improve their own vessels with technology captured from a slave race. That status only extends to long dead races that carelessly leave their artifacts lying around for anyone to find.
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Wolframm
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The Kzer-Za could have won that war even without such engineering projects. They could have simply called in some battle thrall fleets as reinforcements, but they fought the war on their own.
Their arrogance might not be the only reason for that. The alternative reason would be honor. They wanted that battle to be fair, because it was actually a competition for "The Great Trophy"
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Zeracles
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In my book they already cheated by using the Sa-Matra against the Alliance. But I believe their honour pontifications, so maybe they thought there was something special about this region of space that excused the cheat - perhaps the presence of such exceptional species as the Chenjesu and Mmrnmhrm, and the precursor bomb. They would know if that justification was valid, having ploughed through half the galaxy.
Imagine a fleet of dreadnoughts that can cloak, use point - defense lasers, transform to blazer form, launch limpets and DOGIs, use Yehat shields, warp backwards, use the Syreen song (with Syreen slaves aboard, of course), regrow Mycon crew members, use the Thraddash afterburner, transform (or if that is too difficult to do with a Dreadnaught, just give it some of those long range missiles), fire B.U.T.T missiles, etc. In at least some of those cases, I don't think it's a case of not being able to develop that technology themselves, I think it's more about an economy of weaponry. Economy of design and resources. For example, the Kzer-Za are responsible for the Ilwrath weapons but don't use cloaks themselves.
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Wolframm
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They maybe wouldn't even win the war against the Alliance if they had to fight on two fronts, as Draxas said.
This can unlikely be called "speeding up", the Sa-Matra was a kind of their salvation in this desperate situation.
Without the Sa-Matra, the Alliance would be in danger too. Once the Kzer-Za are defeated, nothing would stand between the Alliance and the Kohr-Ah.
And the Kohr-Ah wouldn't be so kind to put them under the energy shields like Kzer-Za did. They would rather prefer to commit a massacre.
In a way, the Sa-Matra saved many lives of a former Alliance members.
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« Last Edit: February 24, 2011, 10:07:28 pm by Wolframm »
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Draxas
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You assume the Alliance would have won the first war without the use of the Sa-Matra, which is probably not the case. The Kzer-Za have been doing what they do for a long time, and have certainly encountered coalitions of aliens willing to stand against them before. They were, in fact, already starting to break the stalemate and push the Chenjesu and Mmrnmhrm back, they just decided not to wait and fight for every star system, and instead shatter their fleets in one move to speed the process and break the Alliance.
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