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ShutteredIn posted:As to how this relates... I don't remember It's about death and it's inevitability. Phleblas was once strong and handsome. He "gripped the wheel and looked to windward", a captain of a ship who thought to navigate it through dangers, who looked ahead, who plotted and planned. Now he's dead, a forgotten corpse deep in the ocean, everything he was to nothing. It's the same theme as the book. For all the drama, all the struggle; the protagonist died, his race died, his love died, his cause died.
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Mars4523 posted:A US in economic collapse would be a great way to limit the use of air power in the civil war on either side. As we've seen in Libya and Syria, any kind of decent sized air campaign will be ludicrously expensive, and even keeping planes in good repair, never mind actually flying them, would place a serious strain on limited resources. And that doesn't take into account the fact the air to ground ordinance is spent at an incredibly high rate and is also extremely expensive. Between the economic collapse and sequestration, you could see the only aircraft operated by both sides being heavy airlift and maybe some helicopters. All true and probably an underestimate of the dislocation of a civil war. The entire US economy and military would rapidly become unrecognizable in an armed conflict. Its an incredibly complicated interdependent system of logistics, production, and finance that keep everything running. In a civil war, it all breaks down and reverts to a simpler level. Outside players supplying arms would be the primary source of advanced weaponry outside of the first year or two. Possibly sooner depending on the course of the breakup. it could all be gone upside down by the time where people actually start shooting. Once debts/taxes stop getting paid, you'll see utter economic collapse strongest in the financial/services/tech sectors and manufacturing/farming the ones that fair best and become the centers of power that determine the course of events.
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