Yun Hee Ryeon
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Posted - 2013.11.16 06:26:00 -
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DeadlyAztec11 wrote:Yes but the Caldari did not have the factories to manufacture enough of the more advanced weaponry for some years, so projectile weapons and explosives were widely used at the beginning of the war until they could be supplemented.
((Just called them black powder weapons as more of a comparison.))
Sigh.
Soldier ... gods and spirits....
The Caldari not only had factories, they had colonies. Plural. Secret, even, which was part of how the conflict started. My homeworld was one of the sites. The Caldari uplifted the urban parts of Achura, which they call Saisio III.
They not only had factories, they had the capability to elevate other civilizations to post-spaceflight status on very nearly a planetary scale.
To give you a sense of how this went:
The Gallentean Cultural Deliverance Society (CDS) arrived on Caldari Prime 114 standard years after first contact. Let's take that-- the start of the Gallentean uplift of the Caldari-- as our year zero.
Year 53: first Caldari corporation established
Year 190: first warp drive created (a joint Caldari/Gallente venture)
Year 524: Caldari/Gallente War begins
... and continues for approximately 93 years.
That ended only about a century ago.
The Caldari weren't exactly a bunch of semi-industrialized yokels, soldier. They had been partners to the Gallente in creating the Federation, and were centuries post-uplift by the time hostilities broke out in earnest.
Your analysis of typical Caldari combat tactics is solid. We're not exactly above using blasters, though, any more than you Gallente are allergic to rails. |
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Hm. A couple additional notes:
Two specific Caldari strengths are in electronic counter-measures and guided explosive projectiles. The former, we haven't yet seen very much of on the clone soldier battlefield. The latter, however, is present in quantity: clone soldier swarm launchers and AV grenades are both applications of Caldari technology.
As another aside, the Ishukone megacorporation has been dipping its toes more than a little into Minmatar technology at the high end, producing both top-of-the-line nova knives (Caldari tech that works brilliantly with Minmatar suit designs) and assault submachine guns. |