The recent claim that TCS-based fleet construction capabilities are
irreconcilable with 5FW based imperial forces ignores two factors:
1. The imperium may simply choose not to spend as much as it could upon
military forces, choosing to apply its budget to other priorities.
Having constructed a fleet adequate to defend the imperium from its
enemies, the imperium follows other priorities (social progarms? Graft
and corrumption? reallt great parties?).
2. The frontier war happens in a small corner of a huge empire. Larger forces
may deployed against greater threats, or as a part of core imperial
politics.
just my 2ccr.
Les Howie
Prograph International