Thank you :) Admittedly not put much thought into Gabriel and the Dark Nebula (the Falcons will probably go MINEMINEMIME!!! and kick anyone in the teeth who gets any ideas about it)
I was looking at the forces assigned to the original EARTHBOUND and CHRONUS and they just seemed...well..a bit wonky.
Earthbounds issue is that its an incredibly large mixbag of ships of different performance and age. But its main strength came from the big cluster of Nova Cat Aegis class ships, the Leviathan and the Tharkad, everything else was pretty much window dressing. And then seemingly during the battle the fleet seems to have not actually stuck together but wandered off to do their own thing or engage in duels against targets. Which is why the Invisible Truth went against a bloody Farragut and as expected got curb stomped. Where were her escorts? HAd they all forgot to turn the oven off and were back home doing that? This is the fight to retake the homeworld. One that's heavily defended and has been under occupation for a decade plus. You don't have ships wandering around Terra and Luna's orbital space doing their own thing.
Chronus had its issues too, again against an enemy they knew spammed the bejasus out of nukes, fighters and assault droppers the Clans seem to have just gone ambling towards Titan without much in the way of a plan with its main punch being a trio of Black Lions, a class that is known to have rancid AA defences and a marked vulnerability to fighter strikes.
So yes whilst the forces for Earthbound and Chronus have been augmented, somewhat significantly, one has to wonder what changes to the Blakist OOB there could be....
Chronu
