Or the Earth of 2300 or 2500 may be so balkanized as to have no global Great Powers that would even daydream of space fleets. If Brazil and Nigeria are on such bad terms as to duke it out, the theater of operations is much more likely to be the South Atlantic than the asteroid belt. These might have more immediate concerns, namely each other. And when the apple of discord gets thrown it might not be contested for by terrestrial powers. The original international regime in space might be demilitarized, as (apart from ASATs) it is today. We can imagine Pentagon planners, or their counterparts, drawing up specifications for the spacecraft, while the service branches slug it out politically and bureaucratically to determine whether combat constellations have admirals, generals, or Space Marshals in overall command.īut what if space forces do not develop as simple outward projections of existing military establishments? A variety of scenarios might produce this result. Space forces then take form already fully developed, like Athena from Zeus's headache.
If they are built by existing or future terrestrial Great Powers the origin question hardly arises. The question then becomes how these forces are developed in the first place. Not because of human moral improvement, but for the same reason Antarctica was untouched by the world wars and cold war: lack of strategic objectives.īut let us suppose it anyway. Let us suppose, for purposes of story, that some future era has space warfare, and space warcraft to do the fighting.įor the record, this is by no means an inevitable or even likely prospect, at least through the plausible midfuture, with the exception of mostly ground-based weapons intended to engage targets in Earth orbit.
Her relevance to our topic comes from her oddly hybrid appearance: She looks like a not-quite-warship. The vessel is the training ship Golden Bear, originally built for the Navy as an oceanographic survey ship. (If you'll buy that, which bridge do you want to purchase? The pretty one to Marin, or the massive one to Oakland?) With sufficient stretching, I suppose you might justify it in a setting where ships have a magic drive, land on water, and their sea performance is the main design consideration. No, the configuration shown above is not proposed for any type of spacecraft.
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