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Well for one, humanity has never been in actual space combat. Our designs are based of the theoretical combat conditions just like the pre-WWI Battleship fleets (which generally had many small guns over big guns and focused on armor over speed). Actual combat brings about innovation; there may be ma...

The "OH DEAR GOD NO" expression just makes me want to say, Bravely run away.

Thanks for the link Mjolnir, that was a good read. Basically you would need to rearrange the nature of space to make stealth work (so no no-ships :P). Also about those rock ships LegioCI described, wouldn't it take a lot of energy to both get moving and stop? Also, accelerating Volkswagen Beatles (s...

Well, the Loroi might see humanity as a valuable staging area. They might give mankind the tech necessary to create an infrastructure to support their war effort (meaning fuel conversion plants, ship yards, ect). Furthermore, third parties within the Union might see mankind as a potential balance ag...

This overly in depth digression has inspired me to register. icekatze raise are great question about the function of large scale mass drivers, since humanity (both current and fictional) has never been involved in actual space combat, large scale mass drivers should be viewed as an attempt to prepar...