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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] I think the limiting factor here is range. The RBoPs can of course have warp drive but lets say that they can only achieve warp 1 or 2 and that they can only travel X amount of light years before they need refuelling. So you have big carriers (presumably the Warbirds) that can go warp 3 or 4 that transport the smaller RBoPs from their bases in the core worlds to the frontier worlds. When a border patrol runs short on supplies another carrier picks them up and replaces them with a fully loaded patrol. In theory there could be dozens of Carriers circling the Empire, going from major installations and settlements to the border systems and back again, sort of like the Heighliners in Dune. This could be the Romulan's main weakness in time of war since all you have to do is destroy a carrier and you've effectively stranded all the low warp ships within the local sector grid. More than that you've interrupted the supply lines and put potentially more strain on all the other carriers. If you keep destroying or crippling the carriers than you force the Romulans to put more of their resouces into protecing their carriers and less into actually fighting the war, thereby increasing your chances of gaining ground (space). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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