[TML] 20mm cannons and bulky aliens

[Leon Wu]

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> On Jan 23, 2008 1:02 PM, Leon Wu <Leon.Wu at newswire.ca> wrote:
> > Wow, now imagine what their equivalent of a dreadnaught would be...
> > You'd get a special "large target" bonus. And the open deck design 
> > would be worse for warships, lack of compartmentalization and all.
> 
> Yeah this is all seeming implausible -- based on the naive 
> assumption that a sapient species will exhibit immutable 
> aspects of their wild psychology.  I'm more likely to believe 
> that they beat their claustrophobia with drugs and training 
> and perhaps artificial smell and sounds to imply space and 
> company than that they have ships that are vastly inferior to 
> any other space-faring military.  I mean, these are aliens, 
> sure, but not animals.  They use technology too.

Well... sorta. Up until they make contact with another major star-faring
race I'd agree they'd build their ships as defined in the alien book.
Following contact it would depend on how conservative they are as a
race. Off the cuff, I'd point to the general reaction of most navies to
airpower following WW1. Sometimes organizations are remarkably resistant
to reality when it comes to world-changing events.

Were there any major dust-ups between the Imperium and the K'Kree that
would show their design flaws and force them to change? Especially a
defeat, nothing motivates a nation/race to shake-up things up like a
defeat...