' Wrote:While I don't share the sentiments of Syrus entirely, I can see where the "Tau 23 is our Alpha" comment is coming from. The IMG is most concentrated on Niobium mining. Although Tau 37 has a better field, that area bordering Alpha makes it near impossible to go there. You'd almost need a battleship fleet as escort against the forces that would show. Personally I'd have liked to see another system between Alpha and T37 - something with a neutron star so people don't go through it needlessly, the Taus are just too dang close to Alpha. But that's a matter for the devs.
Java is our "home" base so to say, because it's the center of most activity for the IMG.
And I take it that your unbiased mind thinks that this is fair? Riiiigh... While none of the people who are supposed to run this place has gone so far as to think that perhaps the Outcasts do mine as well, and since there really is no other logical way to explain the amount of ships we need to fight the war other than saying that we do indeed mine, this deduction of mine rings more true by the minute.
Now, your idea is the very definition of meh for two reasons:
1. We need resources.
2. You want to block off our main trade route with radiation.
All I can ask is: Are you insane, or do you just want to defeat your pretend enemies in a spaceship game with such a zeal that you are willing to pull poor ideas such as this out of your rear end?