Ovid
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Hmm. That prompts me to think of a comparison in Stellaris terms. In BT, the Star League was more of a "build wide" strategy, whereas in this setting, humanity is forced into a "build tall" strategy.
So the BT mobile automated factories are designed more for long distance conflicts (to bring at least part of your supply chain with you), but possibly less useful when you already have settled and industrialized planets.
...actually, the point someone else made earlier about BT jump drives being able to jump to deep space (as well as much further) means humanity might actually need that automated factory tech to quickly exploit newly available star systems. It just requires Sophia first get her hybrid jump tech functional.
I had another idea about setting up backup infrastructure in deep space, but thinking again, that seems high risk in terms of BT jump drive maintenance simply to supply a deep-space manufacturing complex. After all, even in BT, there's a reason most jumpships stick with decently visited and known systems, just in case something goes wrong and the drive wrecks itself.
So the BT mobile automated factories are designed more for long distance conflicts (to bring at least part of your supply chain with you), but possibly less useful when you already have settled and industrialized planets.
...actually, the point someone else made earlier about BT jump drives being able to jump to deep space (as well as much further) means humanity might actually need that automated factory tech to quickly exploit newly available star systems. It just requires Sophia first get her hybrid jump tech functional.
I had another idea about setting up backup infrastructure in deep space, but thinking again, that seems high risk in terms of BT jump drive maintenance simply to supply a deep-space manufacturing complex. After all, even in BT, there's a reason most jumpships stick with decently visited and known systems, just in case something goes wrong and the drive wrecks itself.