I concur. Dohlor has no desire to or expectation of having to fight Charis.PeterZ wrote:Dohlar isn't very concerned about defending against Charisian DNs. They are very concerned about defending against ANYONE ELSE's armoured cruisers. Their R&D is based on using whatever Chairs can share with them to build their own armoured cruisers. Once Dohlar achieves that step, they can start towards matching Charis' tech.
The DN race doesn't involve the Charisians, it involves EVERYONE ELSE.
But the same question still applies - "Who is this everyone else of whom you speak?"
The current candidates are Desnair and the Harchong Empire, and both of those are a good distance from being able to build anything Charis or Dohlar would see as a threat. (And once either do, you may assume Charis will have an interest in keeping them pruned back and not bothering Dohlar.)
Dohlar recognizes it needs the industrial capacity, period. Lots of things need plentiful supplies of high quality steel to build that aren't warships. I'm sure Dohlar will be pleased when it can design, build, and commission the first equivalent of Charis's Falcon class cruiser, let alone anything like a King Harhald. And when they do, the pleasure is likely to be in the ability to do it, with no present apprehension it might need to be deployed in combat.
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Dennis