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[edit] Comparison to Soviet
The article says: "There is also (seemingly) a leaning toward Kafers being analogous to the Soviet juggernaut, with technology that is less technologically sophisticated than the West but mass-produced and effective."
I find this hard to agree with. The deathsled hovertank is at least on par with the most modern human hovertanks in the game. Similarly, the Behemoth is superiour to human main battle tanks. The thud gun is superior to human assault rifles. Thanks to the Ylii Kafer computer technolgy is superior to human computers. In Star Cruiser (the system for space battles), a Kafer ship can usually out-fight a human ship of the same class. I know of no text in any of the books that calls Kafer technology more mass-produced than human technology. However, Kafer technology is sturdy, rugged, reliable and big by human standards -similar to the cliched image of Soviet military technology. This is because Kafers are larger and stronger and prone to hitting their equipment to make it "smarter". I believe the guys at GDW know Soviet military technology far too well to make such a crude and unfair analogy. These are the guys that wrote Twilight 2000 and many wargames featuring Soviet technology.
-Sensemaker
I'd have to agree... I can see, perhaps, some superficial comparability to commonly perceived (in the west) soviet "mindset", perhaps as a selling point or to make the Kafer more "accessible" to the market's imagination... But, if anything, I'd say the technological superiority early on was a storyline means of of both challenge and motivation for the players and the "humans" as a story element.
-Honor —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.54.14.127 (talk) 10:17, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
