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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] Weirdly enough, Wes has screencapped almost exactly the same parts I did! Looking at this fleet, I though to myself “multi-vector assault mode.” Or perhaps “swarming technology” would be better. It’s becoming very much a thing in military AI research. Like the [i]Prometheus[/i] only massively scaled up, and without the need for any centralised control like that ship presumably had - each component of the swarm acts independently in response to the environment and what the other components do, exactly as in nature - murmurations of starlings, etc. - and therefore there’s no communications between components to block or disrupt. Where that would sit with post-Mars attitudes about AI I don’t know, but then the Federation isn’t immune to double standards... And Clancy plainly says she’ll send a “squadron” to DS12. I’m not sure we’ve heard that term used before? They’ve always just talked about “the fleet” when referring to grouped units of starships. And note also there’s no talk of this grouping “assembling” there, or any of the other terms previously used. And the sheer number of vessels - far more than were assembled for more immediate threats like the three known Borg incursions (BoBW, STFC, Endgame). Nope, I think Starfleet isn’t in Kansas anymore. After a half-century of existential threats - Cardassian War, three or more Borg attacks, a Klingon war, the Dominion War, assorted Romulan unpleasantnesses and the Synths - they’ve gone the full military. All that “sorry about this but you’re the only starship in range” nonsense just ain’t fit for purpose no more. Trying to think of an in-universe justification for having a starship class with two nacelle variants. Range vs. speed? Midway through an upgrade? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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