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The Star Destroyer and Imperial Military Doctrine
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, i…
Front view of the set, where you can see that it comes with a Tantive IV CR90 Corvette to scale (it fits neatly into the docking bay).But I think I can actually puzzle out a ‘history of the Galactic Empire’ which makes a bit of sense and into which the ISD has an understandable – if not sound – doctrinal place. The Rebel Alliance, constructing a navy from scratch, builds one to the doctrine of the last peer-conflict, the Clone Wars, thus a fast-carrier oriented force, while the Empire, saddled with high costs is stuck with the ships it has: giant Space-MRAPs designed to intimidation and counter-insurgency. Of course I can’t leave you without a cat picture, so here is Ollie helping me manage my research filing system, also known as “a giant mess in at least four languages.”Excavations in Pompeii turned up some remarkable new frescoes of mythological scenes earlier this month, which you can see in this BBC report.
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