The counterfactual briefly widens to consider what Britain might have offered alongside Gorgon. Several First World War monitors remained available during the 1920s and 1930s, including Abercrombie-class ships armed with paired 14-inch guns. A Norwegian purchase could theoretically have paired each coastal-defence ship with a heavy-gun monitor, creating a much harder coastal-defense problem for an invader. That additional fleet is excluded from the main scenario, which stays focused on the single ship Nidaros so that the divergence remains bounded.
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The excluded 14-inch-monitor branch
Accepting Gorgon might have opened a wider surplus-ship purchase, including Abercrombie-class monitors with 14-inch guns, but the video deliberately excludes them.