furry_wolf2001b wrote:"USSR vs UK warfare, or USSR vs France warfare. The phrase Do Not Want springs to mind. "
Do Not Want is the word.
They where not alone either.
Now with Jason as patron saint and karrines as cousins thing are good.
Please use complete sentences. But to repeat the point you seem to have missed: If you have a single ballistic missile submerine, you do not need a massive fleet of warships. The rules of quality VS quantity changed at the end of WWII. This is why I specified Britain and France. The USSR was rightly cconfident it could steam roller the rest of europe, because of the reason you give. But they also knew they could never take the other two nations alive, because of [edit]their military capacity to fight back; with nukes. (Also known as MAD.)[/edit] You don't need to win, or even survive, in order to ensure the other side doesn't. And if that threat is convincing, they'll never attack you, and you'll never need to defend yourself.
And this is by the way how the entire Imperium works!
As for the armor, was it not the house armors that was vulnerable (old less capable model) or do i remember wrong?
In the story, an iron bullet with titanium coating would dent highest quality imperial armour, and severely injure the Faey inside. That's a lousy bullet design which we haven't used for almost a hundred years. Upgrade it to even a APCR round (one of the more primitive armour piercing designs) and it would almost certainly go straight through. (We have 70 years more refinement if needed.) Jason's gun is also only has middling performance (6.2kps) as far as such weapons go. We know of multiple ways of doing better today. Post Trillane Earth would be more than capable of mass producing such items, and they would sell like hot cakes.
we have seen Jason is very capable, but we have not seen much regular humans pull things out of his ass and being half as good as him.
Possibly because Fel has a very misanthropic writing style. His human characters usually don't stay human very long. The ones that do are usually either killed off or very quickly written off stage. The aliens that replace them usually complain incessently about how evil humans are, and then go onto do the exact same things without batting an eyelid. (Hence Jason's horror that the Kerinne would kidnap a child! Which is strange, since this was exactly what he was going to do with Ian a few chapters earlier. Or his disgust that the Kerinne looked down at other races as below them. Which is strange, since this is exactly what both he and Zaa do in a few chapters time.)
I guess it depends on what you know going in. I know about engineering. I can see the potentials of the technology Fel lists, and how it could be plugged into the human knowledge base to produce things the Faey don't seem to have but would probably find very useful. I also know about writing, and TVTropes, and have a well developed Balloney Detection Kit. I can't write as prolifically as he can, but I can take apart his work as easily as Jason can disect Faey technology. So I can see the false-dichotomy he presents to the readers, and 90% of the time, I just don't buy it.
But to get back on topic: I pointed out that when Earth was helpless, they were treated very badly - and that once the yoke was lifted, they would wish to correct this weakness. The Imperium can't be trusted to play nice because of their fundimental corruption, incompetence, and callousness. Jason can't be trusted to prevent it either, because he effectively views humanity as a lesser race. (Just like the Faey!) Hence Earth has reasons to want to be able to defend itself. You seem to take this as a endorsement of all out warfare, or some kind of attack on the Imperium! It isn't! There are other ways. Such as an MAD policy, and/or greater and more diverse economic ties to the imperium (as a weapon/technology producer for example).