Ves faced another incredibly difficult dilemma.
He wanted the Battleship Token. He wanted to obtain it real bad. The benefits were simply too great.
The difference between battleships and battlecruisers were huge. The latter may be cheaper and faster, but they had often proven to be too fragile to withstand the rigors of frontline combat.
In the current pattern of warfare, battleships had proven their worth many times over. The warships fielded by most of the 13 major races of the Red Ocean were not vegetables. Their powerful transphasic armaments possessed enhanced shield-breaking and armor-piercing properties, allowing them to punch significantly above their weight class.
Armor mattered. It could mean the difference between returning from a battlefield with a few scratches or with a lot of holes and crippling battle damage to the hull!
