Thread:Zillafire101/@comment-4960835-20140119200145/@comment-5365119-20140831221815

I really really like Ecoraptor's idea, and I can very easily see this flourishing into an exciting and dynamic war fiction happening at the same time as the Xonexian Schism. I'd like to apologize for not consulting any of you before grabbing the former DT territories, I wasn't aware that you had plans for them. If you guys want us to retcon some of our presence in the DT territory, that can easily be arranged.

During the actual Scramble, the Xonexi Allies would not have grabbed any territory that directly belonged to any sovereign nation like the Waps and IoW. Claimed territory that hadn't been colonized yet, however, would have been grabbed without second thought given just how dire the situation was.

I really like the idea of this Mirusian alliance as well, echoing the creation of Xonexi Allies as a geopolitical entity. However, as Eco pointed out, there is always the problem that the Xonexi Allies have a decisive technological advantage over the Mirusians, especially in the form of hyperspatial weaponry. The allies possess in great numbers a weapon they call Angelfire, a moderately accurate hyperspatial anti-ship missile which can be fired by starships, space stations, fighters, and ground-based launchers. It is equipped with a hyperdrive, allowing it to hone in on a target from thousands of lightyears away.

The wartime tactics of the Xonexi Allies basically amounts to Angelfire spam, something which will probably revolutionize warfare as the focus of combat shifts away from realspace and into hyperspace. If the Mirusians wish to have a chance against the Allies in conventional warfare, they're going to have to figure out ways to beat their hyperspatial weaponry. If the Mirusians have no hyperspatial weaponry, the Allies could just retreat and keep pelting them from afar with missiles and there is nothing they can do about it.

Conventional counters to the Angelfire could be ship-board hyperspatial AA missiles, hypermatter-based anti-air-artillery guns, hyperspatial stealth (muffling a hyperdrive's emissions so they aren't so easy to track). Some of these countermeasures have been pioneered by the allies. I am unsure how much research the Mirusians would have made into this kind of warfare, though most of these technologies fall into mid-late tier 2.

There is, however, a great advantage that will weigh on the side of the Mirusians. The early war will go badly for the Xonexi Allies, forcing them to commit all available resources to maintaining their fronts in Andromeda and the Milky Way. This will mean that their borders in Mirus will be undermanned and only very lightly defended by training fleets, as they don't expect any form of large-scale invasion. Therein lies an opportunity for the Mirusians to attack and seize territory that cannot be ignored.

Mirus itself, thanks to the Tyranny factories, will be the industrial center of the Xonexi war effort, meaning that it will be pumping out ships which will immediately be sent to the front. When the Mirusians attack, the Xonexi will very likely not have the manpower to respond effectively, but once they start redirecting the flow of reinforcements from Andromeda to their upper Mirusian territories, the Mirusians might find themselves outgunned and outranged by the Angelfire missile. By that point, they might have developed some form of prototype equivalent, but it'd be difficult to rival the Allies' hyperspatial weaponry, which has seen full implementation into their armed forces since 2800.

None of the above is gospel, I'm mostly just thinking aloud and am very open to suggestions or corrections if I've missed something.