User blog comment:AdmiralJoshNinja/The Dead Wiki./@comment-10905876-20160128233313

What about a non apocalyptic scenario? What if the SSA manage at to successfully drive off the RA, wins several decisive victories and ends the war in a peace settlement. Then, a massive, massive depression hits the entire RP. Fleets everywhere are scrapped and sold off, the smaller ones manage to keep a good portion of their fleet, but the large ones collapse under their own weight. Fast forward say five years, and all the old nations still more or less exist, but fleets are much smaller. Due to worries over a still shaky human economy, fleets remain small, and mass production of capital ships is now economically impossible. We preserve the current RP history and nations, but manage to revert to a smaller, more reasonable fleet size for all nations.

Just a suggestion, but I hope y'all consider this as an option. Honestly, I'll probably just go along with whatever is chosen though...