![]() Wolfe and Blue Jacket are rushed out of dry dock on a seemingly pointless mission. The people who remained behind actually still fought the occasional police action or ground war! They just weren't as bright and enlightened as the off-worlders. It is common knowledge that only the best and the brightest were siphoned off to settle the stars. ![]() He's from old Earth rather than the new colonies. Like the Blue Jacket, her commander, Jackson Wolfe, is a misfit in the new navy as well. The point being that Bluejacket despite her age was intended to take a punch. The old girl even carries a battery of rail guns designed for close ship-to-ship combat rather than lobbing missiles across mind-boggling distances. Multiple, redundant systems run through her bones. Massive plating and shields line her hull. Although built after the last war, it was still built with war in mind. The Blue Jacket is an anachronism of that more lethal age. The new, sleek, ultra-modern ships = while powerful - are built more for shuttling civilians about space than for honest-to-goodness in your face combat. ![]() With no shooting war in over a hundred years, the interstellar navies of the loosely aligned human states, atrophy. ![]() ![]() With unlimited resources and unlimited planets to colonize, the wars of the twenty-first and twenty-second centuries are a distant, uncomfortable memory of a darker, more savage past. Faster than Light travel has been a Godsend to humanity. ![]()
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