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    $\begingroup$ "Once the defences are destroyed". By a fleet that's a millenium out of date? $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 6, 2020 at 13:36
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    $\begingroup$ @MadPhysicist - communication with home base hasnt stopped (they're only a few light years from home, they can get data bursts), so as new tech is discovered in many cases it can be integrated with the ships in transit. If you have 200 years to kill, your on a massive ship with thousands of people and everything they need to live and maintain a fleet, and you know of some upgrades, you'll be able to do many of them. You probably can't majorly upgrade the gen ships engines or power gen, but you can dry dock the robotic vessels that actually do the fighting and do many upgrades on them. $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 7, 2020 at 1:28
  • $\begingroup$ +1 and agree with most, but be aware that there were instances in Ireland last century where the motivation for attacks were actions by the British in the 1600's. Some people really can't let go of the distant past, no matter how incomprehensible that attitude is to either of us. $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 7, 2020 at 22:08
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    $\begingroup$ @KerrAvon2055 I don't think that's really an accurate characterisation of what went on in Ireland in the 20th century whether you are talking of the War of Independence or the Troubles. You could trace back historically but both were a consequence of the continuing presence and actions of the British in the then present. Whether you agree with them or not is not the point- the point is the conflict was down to the British still being there and what they were getting up to, not the plantations of the 1600s. And for sure there were very legitimate grievances whatever of the response. $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 8, 2020 at 9:41
  • $\begingroup$ An American analogy would be to say the grievances of the the modern American civil rights movement is people motivated by the actions of those who took part in the Atlantic slave trade which also started in the 1600s. That was a historical wrong... but there were (and are) plenty of contemporaneous problems that are really more the immediate issue. South Africa was also first colonised in the 1600s. Were the opponents of apartheid there people who "really can't let go of the distant past"? $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 8, 2020 at 9:46