Thread:Ecoraptor3339/@comment-5496489-20160524151005/@comment-25309944-20161108020627

It changes everything because everything is changed. >.< The details of how the events unfolded, from the Persan occupation of Menento to the DEC combined navy's defeat in open space north of the Mendel Dominatus territory mattered in how France subsequently responded, and the hundreds of modifications they subsequently made to their grand strategy and their thinking. I've written in detail about these changes, Gorzill, and they've informed how France has acted over two in-universe years.

It's also not consistent with the original series of events, in which France didn't mobilize. Mobilization is when you begin to scramble military assets in preparation for imminent combat. The only military move that was consciously made France's military HQ was to order a rebasing of the French Mirusian Fleet to the Dragowar territories. Then they completely lost control. The whole fiasco was over before French leaders could even judge whether a sizable mobilization of forces was necessary, which contributed greatly to the sense of disorientation, impotence, and unpreparedness that caused the French to not only reevaluate their Mirusian policy, but to fundamentally rethink power in general.