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Yeah kinda getting into "GRRM, just release the next book" with the banality of this but I was just thinking, Astro Control is a civilian service, with military ranks and obviously they had to come from somewhere. Gotta wonder if one of the bits of fallout from the end of Manticore Ascendant will be Mpars reorganised into Astro Control both to manage the junction and do MPARS current job while the navy focuses on defence.

Though that might take a while as I think the first actual transit took place more than 40 years after Call to Insurrection. Or who knows they might recon it

might be a slight heresy to some, but its better in most ways (except maybe cooper and Bens death). the zombies are generally the best I think I’ve ever seen. And it really does make me regret the fact Savini only directed one film

So its pretty clear in the series, especially House of Steel, CLs are basically destroyers wrote large with better range, right up until the Rolands get larger than the Avalons. Meanwhile there's a gap of 200,000 tones up to the Saganami Cs. IRL light cruisers were multiple times larger than destroyers, and some such as the british town class could give some heavy cruisers a run for their money. Its just always irked me

this also goes for the Lee Cronin’s the mummy posts, like the megathread for that is defunct but you’d think they could just look at one of the flood of other posts as say “yeah that’s how I felt”

So the British and Dutch have signed a £2.4 billion deal for 8 15,000 troop and drone carrying ships to be build in Belfast. Now H&W are owned by by Navantia, the Spanish national shipbuilder and unlike the supply ships being built for the royal navy, which mostly will be built in modules in Spain and assembled in belfast, these it sounds like these will be fully built in Belfast.

Now id prefer that to be invested in sonething like housing or infrastructure but at least its creating jobs