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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Shouldn't we always start from the premise that there IS no Federation border patrol? I mean, the borders leak like a sieve. And a good thing, that, since otherwise one wouldn't meet strange new travelers unless one went into deep space a thousand lightyears out or something. It would make sense for the UFP to concentrate its defences near its clustered homeworlds, since probably none of the outer holdings can be protected directly anyway. Another area of importance would be the part of the border surface that lies directly between your homeworld and that of the enemy - wide-flung "hail Mary" maneuvers probably don't pay off in space warfare. Most of the border could be left unattended, since even message buoys would be in too short a supply to adequately patrol it. Enemy incursions would be met with near-coreworld defences and retaliatory fleets. It's not as if the British Empire controlled the seas by monitoring, much less occupying every square nautical mile of them. Big ships need harbors, and harbors can be blockaded, or traffic to and fro preyed on. In turn, merchant convoys can be escorted. A credible defence could result from a fleet that could theoretically patrol/occupy just a small fraction of the volume. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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