With Part 1 most likely coming to a close soon and the beginning of Part 2 an unknown amount of time in the future, I'm curious to see what everyone thinks will happen between Part 1 and Part 2.
Personally, I think we could see (at the very lease):
1) The establishment of a central, elected Alliance civilian government, most likely based on Earth since it's in the center of the Core.
2) The establishment of a trade network between liberated Core worlds using jump-capable freighters with Tanna producing propellant, Kohara producing high-tech items, etc.
3) Each liberated Core system receiving a picket force of Cobra-class gunships with Frigates to serve as command ships for the gunship squadrons, supported by planet-based or moon-based Super Eagles.
4) Select Core system receiving a nodal force of cruisers and possibly a battleship that can quickly jump to any system being attacked in their area of responsibility to reinforce the local gunship and frigate picket once summoned by jump-capable com drone.
5) The production of new Super Falcons instead of the refurbishment of older 402s into Super Falcons.
I see work speeding up at the Tau Ceti assembly station on the new frigates as Takaran replicators come online. I would be surprised if we do not have at least 6 by Ep16. (I'm guessing that just over three years pass before Ep 16) I see Tau Ceti Freighters and shuttles being equipped with Jump Drives and beginning to supplement Boxcar transport between the Liberated Worlds. The Frigates would be assigned to fleets with duties at 1)Corinair with the Avendalh 2)Tanna with Tannan Command 3)Border Patrol as fleet lead 4)Tua Ceti fleet lead 5)With the Aurora Task group 6)With the Battleship Task group at Earth (the idea being that when the next two Frigates come on line they will be placed with an experienced commander first and those ships will have built up experience enough to be put on patrol duty or be assigned to a safe system, with enough independent command experience/crew experience the older Frigates would be given operational command at of a forward post like Corinair and Tanna /hopefully with the Battleships or Cruisers or at least a local Command Authority nearby to take command if something serious happens)
I say I would assign Frigates to fleets, that means Frigates would be accompanied by a squadron of Fast attack craft and a wing or two of Super Falcons. I see the newest ships being assigned to the safest fleets while they're crews settle in. That would free up the more experienced ships to go on to patrol the 20Ly exclusion zone, visit the Liberated/Non Alliance worlds or command the fleets at the safer of Alliance worlds like Tau Ceti. I see the Celestia, accompany an experienced Frigate lead Battle Group to Corinair to join with the Avendalh there. The Celestia to return the bodies of the fallen Coranari to be put to rest on the Path of Hero's and to visit the PC worlds to meet with the disparate Leaderships of those worlds and talk up the Alliance.
Other Fast Attack Craft and Super Falcons will be assigned as border patrol at the 20ly exclusion zone, and babysitting freighters/ Boxcars (individual or fleets) between systems (and with the PC). Some will be modified as scouts and penetrate Jung space on scouting expeditions to find, catalog and track Jung Assets. When more Frigates are Available I see them accompany the larger Freighter fleets between the PC and the Core.
The Super Eagles will probably be short range space fighters geared to deal with atmospheric flight more so then space, and will probably be shipped between systems in batches as they are ready on the Aurora or Celestia until larger/ more frequent freighters become available.
I see the Production lines on Tanna push out large numbers of Fast attack craft and the Tannan Officers now providing the bulk of the training for they're crews. (The Officers trained on Tanna to operate the First Fast Attack Craft are the exception, but subsequent groups have had to factor in an Exchange program to the Earth Academy to supplement they're training as Alliance Officers)
I see Earth begin mass producing Super Eagles at one site at the beginning of Ep15 and work beginning on multiple secondary production sites by the end of Ep15 along with sites specifically for building out the first stage of the Super Falcons, Combat Shuttles and Boxcars. I see a new Flight School on Earth providing training specifically for Pilots for the Eagle's and Falcon's, but taking on the training of pilots for Combat Shuttles and Kalibre's and even for Boxcars. The Flight School operates as a subdivision of the Alliance Academy of Earth and Officers looking to be Pilots or Navigators have to pass Basic Flight in the Flight School. The Alliance Academy is the central location for the training of Officers in the Alliance.
I see Karuzara building Jump drives and mini ZPED's for the second stage of Super Falcon, Combat Shuttles and Boxcar production (like what is happening on Tanna & its moon). Also commencing work on CV-03 and if space and manpower allows it, CV-04. When the Cruiser come on line I see them joining with the Battleship fleets until experienced enough to lead they're own task forces and initially at least relieve the experienced Frigate Fleets for shoreleave.
I see the Jung Forces beginning to preform random course and position changes and Frigates preforming random sensor sweeps in the inner and outer system in all systems close to the border. I see some Frigates testing the defensive perimeter of the Alliance by warping for a few days in the direction of Earth before stopping scanning for signs of pursuit then returning to they're side of the border. Other then that little of interest happened except for the lack of reinforcements along the border. Deeper into Jung Space Ships are in the process of being retrofitted in Jung Spaceports, but other the fact that work was carried out both on the hull and internally nothing has been see to indicate the work done on these ships. All of the Border ships have been replaced over the last year, with vessels that have undergone refit. The Jung/Alliance war has turned cold.
What also needs to happen is the countering of the Jung Nanites. A mission on non-alliance world's to seed them with an agresive nanites that kills the Jung Nanites and spreads worldwide.
The Jung & CLA (resistance on Kohara) have a method of removing Jung Nanites (but it can be painful / might kill you) Mentioned in Ep14 by Lt. Bowden's Former Jung Friends.
I imagine that will be properly introduced in Ep15 when the Koharan President gets put under.
