Talk:United States of America/@comment-10905876-20160220224550

This glitched reply button is getting ridiculous....

I think what Marc is trying to say is that Harmon didn't post the action of defecting until later. He only posted that he was intending to defect. Anyways, my reasoning below is that rather than being a special seizing of ships by the big boss, the ships are undergoing routine maintenance at the time of defection, and were seized by authorities after the fact. (The reason this didn't happen with Guy's forces was because all his ships were at Aubrey already, rather than needing to defect to there like now.)

Now, as for other tech/programs/hardware. The precedent is a bit different. All supersoldier programs for example are of the type where, while one user created it, it's an institution tied to the navy itself. Users do control individual companies/units, but generally, nobody (expect the navy leader in some cases) gets total control of such a program to the point where everyone involved will defect. Similar precedent with other tech I'd imagine, while a prototype or few examples of a weapon or aircraft can be taken, along with designs, it would be logistically impossible to take everything such that the original navy gets none of it. Unless it is a one off product of course. But I couldn't say, defect from the UAC and have Zahn take every last Rapier fighter, Spire of David weapon, and pistol-of-that-design-that-I-developed with him. It's just logistically improbable. Designs and a few examples, yes. Every last one, not likely unless it's a prototype.

I'd also like to hear from Harmon on the matter.