Broadly, "stuff that can wreck habitats" as opposed to "stuff that can wreck small/medium size ships" are my dividing lines. Post-OGJ, I don't see factions worrying about defensive fighters very much, but stuff like the Bears, Backfires, Peacemakers...
*quickedit* Well... I'm coming at it from a "governments have a monopoly on the use of force" angle. Some draw-down sure, especially with a lot of OGJ stuff being pretty adhoc and inefficient, but... I mean, you're the political separatist IC, are you comfortable with the idea of a dirtside administration or government deciding to come up and play by *their* rules and not ours?
Besides, some factions quite clearly want to develop this stuff out of whatever motive. Isn't it better to channel that into something less antisocial than "sitting alone on a pile of ordinance glaring at people and occasionally chasing criminals"?
*quickedit* Well... I'm coming at it from a "governments have a monopoly on the use of force" angle. Some draw-down sure, especially with a lot of OGJ stuff being pretty adhoc and inefficient, but... I mean, you're the political separatist IC, are you comfortable with the idea of a dirtside administration or government deciding to come up and play by *their* rules and not ours?
Besides, some factions quite clearly want to develop this stuff out of whatever motive. Isn't it better to channel that into something less antisocial than "sitting alone on a pile of ordinance glaring at people and occasionally chasing criminals"?