The Golden-Age WDF was pretty compact, yes. The two major nerve centers were the SDF-17 Wayward Son, and the Zeta Cygni II shipyards (with the WDF academy on the planet). That's it. The rest of the WDF proper were a handful of various exploratory ships, none of them the same (WDF Normandy, WDF Delphinus, WDF Righteous Indignation, WDF Enterprise (NX-01) and probably a few I missed) and all of them scattered across the known galaxy. In terms of fleet size alone, GENOM had the WDF "fleet" outpaced by a sizable margin.

(This doesn't count allied forces like the Royal Salusian Navy, the Zentraedi Alliance, the Autobots, etc, who were all busy doing their own thing at the time.)

Basically, the WDF had less than 12 hours to figure out what the hell was going on (re. "Gryphon"'s rampage at the school) before it all collapsed like a deck of cards from a combination of personality fracture lines (that had been carefully poked at or exploited) or overwhelmed by the sudden onslaught of GENOM's military/infiltrator might. And by the time the blitz ended, it was pretty much every Wedge Rat for himself, as the entire core organization had disintegrated and the surface of a planet had burned. After that little cock-up, not many people were in favor of speaking up on the WDF's behalf.

Keep in mind, GENOM nearly went bankrupt from Operation Gotterdamerung. The only reason they ended up back in the black was because the payoff from wiping out the WDF was so high.

--- Philip

	Philip J. Moyer Contributing Writer, Editor and Artist (and Moderator) -- Eyrie Productions, Unlimited CEO of MTS, High Poobah Of Artwork, and High Priest Of the Church Of Aerianne -- Magnetic Terrapin Studios "Insert Pithy Comment Here"