I'm not sure I really consider a several-month system-by-system campaign against Earthforce's rearguard action a pushover victory, but no, after the Battle of Bajor the war wasn't an enormously bloody one. The simultaneous losses at Bajor and the Jörmundgandr Nebula, to say nothing of the defection of the better part (qualitatively, if not quantitatively) of the officer corps, effectively broke Starfleet's back - they didn't play a significant part in the war again until the Solar invasion - and with the Galactic Alliance gaining momentum and numbers with each successive system, Earthforce didn't have the heft required to hold them back alone.

In my mind, the rolling-up of the Federation and Earth Alliance territories after Bajor was a bit like a compressed version of the Allied island-hopping campaign in the Pacific in World War II. It didn't take as long, but if you take Bajor as a sort of combination of Pearl Harbor (the start of hostilities) and Midway (arguably the point in which the Pacific campaign turned in the Allies' favor), the parallels begin to form. I guess, viewed in that light, it's sort of what would've happened if the U.S. Navy had been on the ball in '41, and the Japanese had found more of a fight waiting for them when they got to Hawaii.

Anyway, the battle sequences from the post-Bajor campaign are there to provide a flavor of what the next few months were like; they are not a comprehensive record of everything that happened during that campaign, lest you think that all they had to do from that point was take Corellia and Hoffman and then call it a day. :)

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BUT! if they did... then, yes, they'd have to call it a day just to recoup from the absurdly large losses they'd occur just to even break even.

We know Corellia and Hoffman all too well. >)

http://web.archive.org/web/20061113020534/http://www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/FI/infamy.txt

Yowza. That certainly is a hell of a thing. I decided to use that to cap off my archive binge. I suppose Gryph and Co.'s plan is to rewrite that so that it all works within the current canon, and then use it as the capstone for FI.

Unless you're trying to make revisions. Then it's an interfering old aunt who's constantly getting helpfully in the way and telling everyone the story of the time you attacked someone with a pudding cup during recess in the first grade.

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“They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on.”
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington