I think KJs posting gave me a funny idea.
Not sure we want it in Fenspace, but it would work better than the "three Battleship" idea.
What if one old superpower on Earth waves a large military ship, only to discover that they got at least at much nasty quirks per square inch as the first generation Fen hardware.
Now we suddenly have a huge and incredible expensive ship that the owner is to proud to scrap which is NOT able to do a job in "projecting force" at all because they have enough problems running straight. It might provide the other military organizations on Earth with a good example why NOT to do a project like this.
Example quirk: "When starting the engine, the crew has to sing the song 'in the navy'. All of them."
(normally not a problem, but when you have a crew of 2000 it becomes one
)
(edit: this is not really a serious suggestion how we should do it, but I think it was funny enough to share it)
Not sure we want it in Fenspace, but it would work better than the "three Battleship" idea.
What if one old superpower on Earth waves a large military ship, only to discover that they got at least at much nasty quirks per square inch as the first generation Fen hardware.
Now we suddenly have a huge and incredible expensive ship that the owner is to proud to scrap which is NOT able to do a job in "projecting force" at all because they have enough problems running straight. It might provide the other military organizations on Earth with a good example why NOT to do a project like this.
Example quirk: "When starting the engine, the crew has to sing the song 'in the navy'. All of them."
(normally not a problem, but when you have a crew of 2000 it becomes one
)(edit: this is not really a serious suggestion how we should do it, but I think it was funny enough to share it)