What strategy and fleet should the New Republic use before and during the Yuuzhan Vong War?
Short answerMobilize early, build a broad coalition, preserve useful line ships, and field massed carrier-oriented Starhawk groups rather than depending on scarce superweapons.
NotesThe fictional scenario is treated as a problem of democratic mobilization against a civilization-scale invasion. Planet-destroying superweapons may threaten the enemy's worldships, but their politics, lead time, and safety make them difficult for the New Republic to authorize or reproduce. The panel criticizes sacrificing three Imperial Star Destroyers to build one Starhawk because three separate line units cover more places and may win the same fleet action. Its preferred answer is earlier cooperation with the Imperial Remnant and even the Hutts, a unified strategic council, and large groups of modified Starhawks carrying extensive fighter and heavy-bomber complements. The counterfactual illustrates durable real-world problems of coalition command, industrial mobilization, force concentration, carrier air power, and converting captured fleets without destroying useful capacity.