Humanity First Comments Thread

[Kurt (OP)]

Finally caught up on your wonderful story, loved most of it but did find myself confused at times trying to remember who you were fighting with the repetitive naming alien ships with the NATO phonetic alphabet. While a logical and practical manner, did have me confused at times. So I compiled a collection of other phonetic spelling alphabets, both alternate English and several other languages. You could use these to keep the same pattern but better differentiate between various alien races.

Thank you, but I was getting confused myself, and realized it didn't make too much sense to be naming the ship classes of different alien races the same names, so I've changed moving forward.  The Empire has a pretty good grasp on the class capabilities of the Archer ship, so will be redesignating their ships as Light Raiders, Raiders, Salvage class, and so on.  The Swarm will remain NATO standard, and the NPR aliens will have their own theme. 

Sorry about it getting confusing, and I'll take a look at your list. 

[Garfunkel]

What an exciting battle! Tough going for the strike fighters but the Swarm is probably the worst opponent for beam fighters.

[Kurt (OP)]

What an exciting battle! Tough going for the strike fighters but the Swarm is probably the worst opponent for beam fighters.

As I discovered.  The beam fighters seem to do well against their larger ships, which is probably because of their fire controls.  The missile fighters are doing very well, but as I noted, their weakness is needing to reload.  The Empire is rapidly building ordnance factories, but it seems like there is never enough. 

[Garfunkel]

Looks like the Raiders are now more of a logistical challenge rather than an existential threat.

[skoormit]

Looks like the Raiders are now more of a logistical challenge rather than an existential threat.

But logistics is life. Therefore...

[Kurt (OP)]

Looks like the Raiders are now more of a logistical challenge rather than an existential threat.

But logistics is life. Therefore...

Yes, the empire now out-techs them, and their military ships can outrun all of the raiders, so they aren't a major threat any more.  However, they are damned annoying.  And I must admit, when I realized they were raiding in uninhabited and unexploited systems it caused more than a little unease, as they were completely undefended.  Fortunately, there was only one such system that was a critical problem, however, there are several others that could be a lessor problem in the future, particularly if expansion continues. 

With High Guard station established in the solar system, close to the jump point, there are now naval forces stationed there that can rapidly respond to most of the nearby systems in a reasonable amount of time without having to climb out of the inner system.