Jack of Harts

I feel I have to modify a statement I made earlier. I have often said that the Marauders became deadly warship hunters after receiving the hyperspace drive and torpedo upgrades. Some people think I am saying they were not deadly before then. That is not the correct interpretation to take out of those statements. The base Marauders were very deadly. We never would have been victorious at Fort Wichita or Fort London without Marauder squadrons supporting our warships and harrying the Shang assaults. They helped hold the lines until we arrived. But once they became independent of fixed space stations or carriers for deployment and could carry weapons capable of generating capital-ship levels of destruction, they became a force multiplier that allowed us to strike back at the Shang.

The B-14 Marauder won the competition for a new American bomber as part of the Fleet 2300 Project. It went from competition to deployment in less than ten years, and enjoyed mass production for decades before being replaced in the later years of The War. Many military historians consider it to be the most successful design of the entire Fleet 2300 Project. The Marauder certainly became the most widely deployed, and once it was upgraded with a hyperdrive and armed with the newest torpedo technologies it became a deadly warship hunter. Marauders claimed more warship kills than any other design class by the time The War came to an end. They were amazing to watch in action.