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The museum ships aren't set up to actually operate weapons, and...even seeing gunnery practice doesn't convey the sheer, visceral lethality of those shells.

Yeah, it's just I was touring USS Iowa last week and. . . the sheer impact of high explosive shells of that magnitude is beyond belief, and that's before the battlewagon breaks out the cluster munitions.

Y'know what would be amusing? The U.S. Navy sending two of its museum battleships to Gate...

I mean atrocities in the Empire's past. If the public became aware of just how evil the Empire is, I can't imagine there wouldn't be a massive push for full-scale invasion or, if that's too risky, even indiscriminate destruction.

I feel like at the point where you take a look at Earth-side politics, there should probably be some degree of mention of NATO political leaders making a "difficult" decision that they are going to actively conceal and downplay Imperial atrocities in order to avoid public outrage pushing for...

Overall, I think your portrayal of NATO as wishy-washy in ways that make Falmart think it's weak and more a political problem than a military "game over" is realistic and well-written. And I get that you probably don't want this to end as, "And then the United States took over. AMERICA FUCK YEAH!"

A fair point. Still, my point of view on the Empire is -- I couldn't care less that the Empire poses no actual threat to the United States / NATO. To me, the mere fact that they practice slavery is sufficient justification for a full declaration of war and the acceptance of no terms other...

I have a lot of sympathy for the Haryo Tribe, and I think they were entirely justified in their goal of bringing down the Empire from inside. They also have a pretty good point about being the only group that is actually indigenous to Falmart.

On a related tangent, another thing that was an *extreme* luxury item in the medieval to Renaissance era which became trivial to make later on is mirrors. The Hall of Mirrors in the Versailles palace is "only" Renaissance era, and it would still utterly astound and intimidate anyone from the...

Lee-Enfields are easy to convert to 7.62x51mm NATO, with the last sniper variants and final production runs in India being built in NATO calibre in the first place.

To be fair, the Atlantic is much smaller than the Pacific and Pina does not really have *any* context on the range of Canadian flying machines as opposed to wyverns.

Most hardcore Japanese nationalists are, because they want to bring back the Imperial days while at the same time whining that every other country in Asia is "refusing to let go of the past" for calling them out on bringing back the Imperial days.

Wonderful to see this updating again. It's unfortunate that the protagonist is Canadian because that makes the story at least 40% less awesome, but it's still a pretty great story.