Jack of Harts

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.

The impact of Kings Bay on Georgia’s space program cannot be underestimated. It was started at Kings Bay, Kings Bay crew served aboard the vessels, and Kings Bay training made everything possible. And Kings Bay culture drove it into a number of interesting cul-de-sacs. For one thing, they do not fly or sail on spaceships. Georgia has boats that dive into subspace, not ships and hyperspace as many other nations term them. And Georgian boats rarely stand out front and center in any battle. They are some of the stealthiest vessels in space, and they prefer to poke around the edges of battle and send in small numbers of stealth torpedoes rather than more active massive missile salvoes. They do not wish to stand out in battle, even limiting their energy armaments to those needed to maintain their point defense networks. In case all of their plans fail and someone actually sees them well enough to shoot at them.