'Border controls' was just the public justification she used for her war. She'd been planning for that war since at least the early 2160s. She deliberately raised the trade embargo to 'total' status knowing that it would invite smugglers, because she wanted the ability to claim that smugglers violated the armistice terms of the last war to figleaf her getting this one.
And then when she had victory and earth begging for mercy she decides that we have learned our lesson and signs a treaty instead of finishing the threat off then shocked years later when the terrans come back and hit twice as hard now utterly convinced that there can never be true peace with the Vilani.
Her plan was to basically "humble the barbarians," but I should note if she wanted to go further she could totally have gone scorched earth. The Terrans military was not at a good point at this time.
Ironically it's after this the Terrans start to take a more proactive stance on things.
Note that she still had most of her fleet, and had taken out a lot of Terra's. As far as she knew, she'd already won. The next step would be to culutrally assimilate Terra into the Imperium, but she was apparently planning on taking that process slowly enough to let Terra save its face while being brought onboard instead of trying for a rapid forceful subjugation. (I mean, if Terra had shown one thing already it's that you can't force these people to bend the knee even when nuking them.)
So she ran into the classic Roman problem of "the savages can wait we need a few legions over here."
Vilani civilization is basically a saner version of the 40k imperium. You can't get ideas of rebelling if you have to fight many rivals and the throne can recall your forces at will. The problem here is that her actions on top of the last few leaders had convinced the Terrans the Vilani empire was inherently untrustworthy and out to fuck them over only stopping because they keep getting caught up in internal politics.
That about it. She managed to stalemate the Terrans but even then she was fending off her rivals and forced to step down. The next to take over, Dumushirs, were basically very not-interested in conflict.
That's another edition of the RPG. We're using the GURPS Interstellar Wars edition, which is a modified version of the GURPS tech level system.
While BattleTech's material science is basically black magic; the space equipment is it is hilariously massive compared to the stuff Confed uses.
Not sure but probably give them a leg up in any case. Most any tech she gives them would be invaluable because it is centuries more refined than most of what they can easily get now or open completely new paths for them. Study of bt lasers could really improve theirs. Ppc tech could be a very nasty heavy gun and might let to these meson guns they get eventually sooner.
Didnt she basicaly leave enough hints to make it look like she was just connecting the dots?
It was also all theory, no practical applications... at least, not on her part.
to my understanding the feild is more of a memory reinforcment effect, with some durability enhancement thrown in, so it probably WOULD work, just not as well as in setting.
You have a bucket of red paint, and a brush. It will make your tonk ride 20% faster...
At best I would say Ork tech works better in Orks hands because their innate powers. Makes everything run like it was newly made not something pulled from a rusted scrapyard.
that is part of of the durability enhancement thing i meant. should have worded it better.
eh, i mean you just need better lenses for long range, and battletech has long range lasers on their warships if im interpreting the details correctly, so it could be a case of just retooling curent production slightly.