User blog:DMR4LIFE/Chat Empire in Battle

I know we all enjoy the rp’s here, as do I, but there is something that I don’t understand. The Chat Empire is supposed to be this all mighty juggernaut that is almost but impossible to defeat, and most of the time, they are not. I realize it would be no fun if we always lost but, does that mean the Chat has to be... sort of like the Imperial Empire from Star Wars? The Chat should have some advantage yet they always fall short. We have these single ships able to hold their own against the Chat, yet their more powerful ships rarely destroy our capital ships. These great soldiers lose to a hand full of soldiers. This isn’t like the Vietnam war, else we would be losing many more troops and inflicting more sociological damage. We bomb planets with ease, and only once have ever really lost, though we didn’t completely lose at Yoth.

To me, it feels like this is more kind of like a movie, where no matter how bad or bleak it seems, we find a way to somehow come out on top. Eafth was bombed, with the Hecate still escaping (though it was severely damaged, though it will get repaired). Geato, and I’m guessing here, will be “liberated” from the Chat and we will take control of it. Yoth, though we lost, still escaped and had the NOVA to use at Eafth. Even with that gone, we still managed to hurt the Chat. My point is I think we get too many lucky breaks and maybe we should not get them. We should lose battles, and be on the run a lot. We are outnumbered, out gunned, and the Chat should be a forced to be reckoned with. They shouldn’t be some faceless enemy we push over unless the plot calls for it. I know we have to some degree plot armor, but that doesn’t mean we should always been invincible.