The Nietzscheans exploit permission to maintain home guards and rebuild cruiser-sized forces after the Magog War. The High Guard therefore needs battleships whose construction is conspicuous and whose combat power differentiates federal authority from local fleets. Cruisers remain essential for presence and routine missions, but a peacetime fleet still needs a war-focused core. Removing every ship above cruiser scale erases that force-structure boundary and makes rebellion easier to conceal and execute.
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Why the federal fleet needs ships beyond home-guard reach
Once regional home guards can build cruiser-scale forces, the federal navy needs distinctive capital ships that regional factions cannot quietly match.