Talk:Mykarian Empire/@comment-3155949-20140108010640/@comment-3155949-20140109010325

Yuy: Not really. That's insane population density, especially given the fact that not all systems have any sort of habitable planets at all. That's a whole lot of people to evacuate from an ambiguous big threat. There are countless logistical issues with that. Not even the EIT will end up having that kind of population at the end of my development of their systems

Orang: I think you got the reverse of my meaning. That's too many ships. If they can evacuate 750 billion people anyways, why can't they bring along some large warships? The Eteno Imperial Navy would abide to that ship ratio, and I think at max they'd have 150 battleships (still working on some of the estimates).

As for Ara Muzdi, the idea of a dreadnought in space can be fairly nebulous, but the GC definition is an upsized battleship like the Outcast Ranseur-class, worth three or four battleships in single combat (extraordinarily useful as part of a squadron).

I completely sympathize with the fact that it isn't at all easy to transplant your works into a different environment like this, but you must keep in mind that you have to adjust your fiction to our tech/population levels. If the Ara Muzdi, at full operational capacity, can single-handedly rip apart a Center Fleet squadron of the Imperial Navy, you need to tone it down. Similarly, if your refugee population could crush the Milky Way's factions with sheer conscript force (a la USSR) you need to tone it down. They're refugees. They've been around for enough time to repair whatever warships they brought along and build an acceptable number of new ones, but they aren't major competitive powers yet.