User blog comment:Vanessa Ravencroft/About Content of the Wiki/@comment-4082020-20130905171858

Consider the real world. The United States for example find out that the plans for the newest Fighter jet were leakedto the Chinese (This did happen) Even for a fast and rich (not that we are really rich anymore, but live on borrowed money) country it takes time to plan an new jet, make sure the leaks that led to the problem are sealed and new technology that might still be in development or in prototype phase is now rushed tobe completed. Additional funds are located and appropiated, bureaucrats have their say and the Military bugs in...all this takes years. Admiral Swybar planned this for years....updating the Red Dragon and finally stealing it.

The United Stars is huge...if you check the size of the Galaxy with the SOL speeds Union ships obtain...it takes a long time to travel. Decissions and implementations need to travel. Personnel that can be trusted mut be selected. Checking on each worker, engineer and project manager that will work on the Black Bridge and the Bone yards...is no easy or fast task. The faster they go the easier it is for mistakes to be made, security leaks overlooked etc.

So considering all this I think my estimate to begin construction is actually quite fast.

Yes the GC Universe is a fictional universe but I like to keep things as real as possible if that makes sense.

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