US Navy options for the future--probably stating the obvious.

[HRogge]

Didn't we have this discussion a couple of years ago?

That was before my time here...

I seem to remember a whole lot of ideas planned out for a "cold war" between Earth and the Convention, with scenes like a USAF patrol being shadowed by a VVS patrol to echo the US/USSR patrol flights of the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the stations (maybe Stellvia - I think this was before we populated the L5 point) becoming a latter-day Vienna... and nobody ever actually wrote anything with the ideas.

Storyplots like this are very difficult to do in a joined worldbuilding setting.

Exploration, OTOH, is something that actually generates stories, as both Mal and Dartz have shown.

I must admit I have still no clue what to do with the physical exploration setting, but I have enough other things to explore until I will need it.

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One thing is sure... an open war between Fenspace and one of the mayor military powers of Earth will be a disaster for the Fenspace project. Because it limits the amount of stories that can fit into Fenspace.