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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > The Expanse
 
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Orvin
Sep 9, 2006

Milkfred E. Moore posted:


The Free Navy is also really quite powerful for a raiding force made up of the small ships Duarte didn't want and, presumably, a bunch of converted gunships and pirate vessels. The biggest engagements in Sol's history go down between the Free Navy, Earth, and Mars -- and the two inner powers get pretty badly mauled.

It’s been a little while since I read the books, but aren’t some of the early engagements handwaved away due to the bulk of Earth and Martian Navies needing to stay close to home to intercept thrown rocks? So what little forces Earth and Mars have outside Mars orbit are much more easily overwhelmed and/or surprised.

Isn’t it a pretty big plot point that once the rocks are not a threat, the Free Navy starts a retreating action going full scorched earth to delay the various fleets as much as possible?

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