Generalissimo wrote:Batman wrote:and even if such a ship exists why would Iblis automatically have them available?
Dreadnoughts are thematic for Garm Bel Iblis.
Also essential in his anti-imperial campaign.
I thought having them would be closer to his usual resistance fighting doctrine.
Not giving him an unfair disadvantage right off.
The
Dreadnought-class ships Bel Iblis used were 'cruisers' of a type individually weaker than Imperial star destroyers- and there were thousands and thousands of such star destroyers in the galaxy. Just because they were called 'dreadnoughts' doesn't mean they were especially powerful ships.
If we gave him an equivalent amount of firepower in the Star Trek galaxy, he'd be tooling around with a squadron of
Miranda-class ships or something. Of course, gaining those ships might just make him a higher-profile target as others have noted, so yeah.
biostem wrote:IMO, the greatest problem that the Maquis faced was that BOTH the Federation and the Cardassians were after them - it's one thing to have your enemy coming after you, but to also have your former allies dogging you just adds insult to injury. I don't recall the Feds being responsible for the Maquis as part of the original agreement with the Cardies, so they really should have just backed out of the entire situation...
The TNG-era Federation that originally set policy toward the Maquis was
exactly the sort of government that would enforce a treaty provision against its own citizens or former citizens, in order to maintain peace with the Cardassians.
Also, Bel Iblis will probably not be too surprised to find both major powers in the region against him. In Star Wars, he's perfectly used to fighting two enemies that both have him comically outgunned: the left half of the Empire, and the right half of the Empire.
WATCH-MAN wrote:Unless you want to argue that all these trained officers have less military leadership skills than Garm Bel Iblis, who served in the military for a time, but only learned how to operate blasters and rudimentary weaponry
[source] before he was elected as Corellia's representative in the Galactic Senate
[source], we have no reason to assume, that the latter could have changed the course of events for the Maquis with his ""genius" military leadership".
On the other hand, Bel Iblis was good enough as a guerilla leader to make the Imperials look like a bunch of fools for years- so unless the average Star Trek military officer is better at tactics than the average Star Wars military officer, Bel Iblis will still come out looking pretty good.
Then again, in response to that people make a good point that a lot of his skills become less valuable when he's transplanted to a strange environment. He might still be a good judge of people, a good leader and so on, but he would no longer be able to
personally appeal to potential allies, or trade on his reputation for good character and responsible power.
