From: "Tinman"
To: Soc.Fen.Military
Subj: RE: Worst Case Scenario
One thing the Danelaw doesn't get is how many CPU cycles the Fen can devote to stuff. The other thing the don't get is just how expensive it'll be to even attempt this.
Space is big, yo.
It'll be kinda hard to go after the fen when the fen can just buy your infrastructure out from underneath you. It'd even be legal, what with infomorphs slipping between jurisdictions and having FTL comms. Nanosecond Buyout anyone?
Heck, we can embargo them. Pull the licenses, and tell non-US companies to stop selling our kit to the US if they want to keep their licences. That don't seem like much, but we can pull the US into international courts that way.
The other side is, with all those soldiers out in the black learning on the ragged edge (as the majority will not be trained), who's keeping the folks at home safe? It's easy as heck to slip into the USA. How paranoid will they get if fen start posting selfies from all over the place? Catgirl outside the White House, Tachikoma outside the Pentagon, etc, etc... We don't have to even go inside them to point out we can be everywhere.
If you really want to stick it to them, they ratified the Kandor Treaty. Attacking Fenspace puts them on the bad side of the OTHER signatories.
To: Soc.Fen.Military
Subj: RE: Worst Case Scenario
One thing the Danelaw doesn't get is how many CPU cycles the Fen can devote to stuff. The other thing the don't get is just how expensive it'll be to even attempt this.
Space is big, yo.
It'll be kinda hard to go after the fen when the fen can just buy your infrastructure out from underneath you. It'd even be legal, what with infomorphs slipping between jurisdictions and having FTL comms. Nanosecond Buyout anyone?
Heck, we can embargo them. Pull the licenses, and tell non-US companies to stop selling our kit to the US if they want to keep their licences. That don't seem like much, but we can pull the US into international courts that way.
The other side is, with all those soldiers out in the black learning on the ragged edge (as the majority will not be trained), who's keeping the folks at home safe? It's easy as heck to slip into the USA. How paranoid will they get if fen start posting selfies from all over the place? Catgirl outside the White House, Tachikoma outside the Pentagon, etc, etc... We don't have to even go inside them to point out we can be everywhere.
If you really want to stick it to them, they ratified the Kandor Treaty. Attacking Fenspace puts them on the bad side of the OTHER signatories.