Is Liberty REALLY more powerful than Rheinland?

[Backo]

Oh of course, Liberty is the descendant of the USA thus it must win every war even if logic dictates otherwise.

- Liberty has no resources of its own and is dependent on the income received from other Houses, yet it has an insanely large fleet.
- Rheinland has veteran pilots and elite fighter corps which in actuality easily counter -any- larger scale Liberty capship attack. Yet "in role play" Liberty forces are superior because of their capital ship fleet.
- Rheinland pretty much blitkzkrieg'd every single House in vanilla, when its economy was supposed to be down. Now that it's not so anymore, they're even weaker?
- The war is about the independent systems, yet Liberty is gaining territory, even though it has a good dozen of entirely disregarded and empty systems as opposed to Rheinland.
- Liberty is heavily tied down by piracy attracted by it being the center of commerce, in-RP and in actuality, yet they manage to carry all the above points out when their economy is being constantly eaten up by pirates.

Explain the logic in all that, please I'm all ears.

About the war being Independent system based: There was a rumor somewhere that Liberty actually wants the secret research station in Bremen. Something about a captured Liberty Gunboat with data of the possible assault on Bremen. Can't recall which base had said rumor, but that's probably the reason.

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