Jack of Harts

Anyone who has studied Alabama history knows about the fall of Mobile during the Second Great Depression. The stand down of the police. The riots. The looting. The uncontrolled fires. Decades of corrupt government left the city ripe for the kind of chaos and death that occurred in many of America’s larger cities in that time. What saved Mobile in the end was also what had always made it great. The Port of Mobile. The Aeroplex. The various shipyards. Mobile was the center of trade and production for both the civilian and military industries, and the various yards and industrial parks in the region simply could not allow the riots and looting to destroy their infrastructure. They had been hiring retired veterans for their private security for decades, and when the looters and rioters came to burn it all down, the security teams saved one of the richest and most important concentrations of industrial and economic might in Alabama.

I should note that the Georgian Navy and the Cowboys often worked with each other throughout The War and beyond. Both organizations practiced asymmetrical warfare, especially during the Hyades Campaign, and Georgian boats softened up many planetary defense grids before the Cowboys moved in to secure the way for invasion forces. That cooperation continued in the decades that followed, with Cowboys often operating off Georgian boats or bases. The Georgian Navy also participated in numerous Cowboy interventions over the decades, most often against raider bases that had escaped the attention of the larger Western navies. Georgian torpedoes have often heralded the start of such an action by sweeping in from the dark without warning to shatter the orbital defense grids. The Georgian Navy may be a squirrelly lot by the standards of other navies, but the Cowboys found them to be valuable allies, and perhaps even kindred spirits when patrolling the dark of space against those who would unravel civilization if given the chance.

It should be noted that the Georgian Navy turned out to be amazingly effective against both Earthborn and Alien opponents. Most Western Alliance warship required heavy Peloran upgrades before they could stand toe-to-toe against Shang or Roderan warships in equal numbers, but the Georgians spent most of their time hiding in the deep black. They did become far more dangerous after the Peloran upgraded their torpedoes, but that was a minor refit at most. They may also have upgraded the electronic warfare systems, almost certainly provided improved hyperdrives, and surely boosted the effectiveness of the deflection grids, though the Georgians never confirmed those rumors. Official Georgian reports are that all War upgrades were produced inside Georgia or her various colonies, and that their survivability against the Alien threats was due more to superior tactical and strategic doctrine than anything else. Though they do credit the Peloran torpedoes with increasing their lethality. They absolutely celebrate that as a successful melding of Georgian and Peloran capabilities.