Ok, what an argument. Is the limiting factor on fielding the warships the officer and specialist training or not? What takes the longest? They do. Therefore the limiting factor is going to be training them.NecronLord wrote:Somehow I think the enlisted men of the Imperial Navy would disagree with you over the idea that they are simply. And of course, if you think training sixty specialists is as hard as training six thousand (offi
And no, numbers don't really matter. You can build enormous numbers of training camps and facilities and whatnot, but the curriculum that each individual officer will have to pass will remain the same. Whether you're training ten thousand officers or one, so long as the facilities and whatnot increase accordingly, the curriculum is going to be the limiting factor.
They did. LoE and ROTS novelisation imply imminent Republic victory - just look how the Republic started with essentially zilch and look how they caught up to the CIS. Furthermore, we know that the Republic fields Saxtonian cruisers, and definitely Saxtonian dreadnoughts and battlecruisers. The largest ship fielded by the CIS known is the Trade Federation "battleship"; the largest true warship is the Providence-class destroyer.NecronLord wrote:And yet the Republic couldn't use this kind of advantage against the seperatists in the war... why?
Clone Commanders appear to have been introduced late in the war without the preparation of a year necessary. Moreover, if you had read you Thrawn novels correctly, it is stated that it was believed the clonemaster came up with a way to overcome the clone madness problem, but no one knew what it was. (My personal theory was that Palpatine could cloud the Force around the clones and suppress the pressures that drove them insane - Thrawn took a more direct route and simply removed the influence of the Force arround them with Ysalamiri).NecronLord wrote:Spaarti cylinders still require months or years if the Thrawn technique is unavailable do they not?
I haven't seen a scrap of evidence that they were losing the war by ROTS; if anything, the ROTS novelisation and LoE imply the exact opposite. One could be forgiven for believing that you're presuming your conclusion to be correct without apparent evidence and asking demanding disproof. This is irrational.NecronLord wrote:Explain why they're loosing the war by RotS if they have parity with the CIS.
Proof?NecronLord wrote:Yes. However, the Clone War era ships are supposedly decomissioned.
Your analytical technique is poor. An ISD gvien a thousand years and adequate fuel, maintanence, and energy storage media might be able to power a superlaser blast.NecronLord wrote:I find it unlikely that the Empire is that much more powerful than the republic, despite rebel claims to the contrary. Certainly technology has advanced by the Imperial era, but the weapons yeilds of weapons like the Banking Clan Frigate exceed anything that has ever been stated for even an ISD's broadside.
The wattage output for a IBC frigate is commiserate with its size just as much as a OT craft of the same scale. The large weapon takes a long time to charge, annhiliating a great deal of fuel. It is not comparable to a ship-to-ship, firing once a second battery.
Perhaps you'd care to notice that the IBC siege gun is rated in raw energy, without respect to charge time or refire rate. The appropriate analysis would be comparison of the respective wattage available to both vessels. That weapon's yield is not averaged over the amount of time needed to procure the energy it requires.
Not disputing that. However, I am disputing your haphazard uberCIS thesis.NecronLord wrote:Hence, weapons technology hasn't progressed that much, and the CIS has the all the advantages that the NR lacked when fighting the Vong does it not?
Those quotes are HARDLY as definitive as the ones in regarding the Outer Rim Sieges or the other ones in LoE. Quite simply I can reconcile the two by stating that the text is conveying a sense of hopelessness and dread by emphasizing the losses over the gains. OR that the text is reflecting a recent Separatist comeback, and a series of demoralizing losses. OR that the Holonet is skewed by Palpatine to make the citizenry scared and more pliant to his increasing consolidation of executive power. The Japanese suffered demoralizing losses at Midway. That did not mean they were as of then losing the war - they had control of most of the Pacific, and in this case whatever losses incurred, the Republic maintains control of the galactic core and inner regions, and the CIS is mostly relagated to the fringe. The explicit information detailing the galactic strategic situation in LoE is that the CIS has lost territory all the way until the Outer Rim - the fringes of the spiral arms. Palpatine gives an entire speech to this effect. I suggest you read LoE.NecronLord wrote:Across the remnants of the Republic, stunned beings watch in horror as the battle unfolds live over the holonet. Everyone knows that more Jedi are killed or captured every day, that the Grand Army of the Republic has been pushed out of system after system
I think you are taking the evacuation of the CIS leaders to Mustafar as proof of the CIS being driven back on all fronts. I disagree, given that it was ordered specifically by Palpatine to get them all alone in one place for his new protegee to move them, it cannot be assumed to be indicative of the general state of affairs. Certainly the republic can take Utapau, but this was explicitly stated to be a simple trap for Obi-Wan or Grievous (whichever dies, Palpy wins), rather than an outpost the CIS was committed to defending.
Also, there is much circumstancial evidence that the Battle of Coruscant attack was viewed as a desperation move by the CIS.