A viewer compares Andromeda's technological decline with the loss of major-warship construction among Austria-Hungary's successor states. Industrial collapse is accepted as a possible explanation. The objection is that Andromeda still has technologically advanced Perseids and large Nietzschean realms controlling many planets. Their surviving resources make the failure to build stronger warships less convincing in this interpretation.
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Andromeda and the loss of warship-building capacity
Austria-Hungary's collapse offers an analogy for lost warship-building capacity, challenged by the resources of surviving powers in Andromeda.