Rajvik Wrote:i have to agree as well, and also, this:March 2015 is also the year when the ESA/JAXA spaceship Thor Heyerdahl flies the first time... which might be another readon for the two launches you describe ("We need a bit more presence up there!"). It didn't helped a bit that both ESA/JAXA kept pushing forward their projects in 2017 either.
Quote:Say, set it a little bit after 2016 (or just before it, during the election), when someone finally realizes that the Stingray has been hiring old pilots on semi-minimum wage for part time jobs... flying retired navy airframes that have been waved. Which turns into an utter clusterfuck for congress when the Stingray's commander and the contractors helping out on the project slam congress with the 2nd amendment and other relevant passages from the constitution, citing the TSAB's utter inability to do ANYTHING that has forced them to take drastic measures to fulfill their orders to 'Maintain Peace and Security for all American Citizens Beyond Earth Orbit'. Use the republican sticking points against them, have them hammer in the points of how Fenspace is leaving America (and the rest of the world) behind, economically and militarily. After all, they have honest to god FLEETS of cruisers, and all the US has is a SINGLE waved sub, and whatever that sub's crew has managed to scrounge up.
would dovetail nicely with the december relaunch of the USS Tarawa as the FCS Werewolf and then the 2018 relaunch of the USS Whitbey Island by the US navy
