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Originally Posted by James1978
A minor wrinkle for anyone who is interested. There was no dry dock at Bath Iron Works in Bath in T2K. Until 2001, there was a subsidiary yard in Portland, ME where the company had a dry dock. They installed the sonar domes at this facility.
The floating dry dock at Bath seen on GoogleEarth wasn't in place until 2001.
So if you want a dry dock, you also have to secure Portland.
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First District owns Bath, Portland, and Portsmouth from mid-1998 onward. One can see why Milgov, though royally pissed by RADM MacDowell's little
coup de main, wants to stay on decent terms with the District. Aside from 43rd MP Brigade and possibly the Coast Guard command under Holsgirder in Narragansett Bay (RI), Milgov has few friends in New England. The state governments of Vermont at Burlington and New Hampshire at Manchester are in the Civgov camp, though this doesn't do much for Civgov. The Black Watch in southern Vermont is on bad terms with the 43rd, and therefore with Milgov. The City and Shire of Keene, NH is nominally in support of Civgov. The Isolationists in Providence want nothing to do with Milgov. The UBF is nominally in support of Civgov. The remaining surviving governments in Massachusetts have little to offer Milgov except food and shelter for small groups. The megapunks in Boston and southern New Hampshire obviously are no help to Milgov. The rising Blood Cross in northern Vermont, northern New Hampshire, and inland Maine also are a problem. In fact, one of Milgov's fears is that Civgov will find a way to unite Burlington, Manchester, the Cape and Islands (which are the stronghold of the UBF) and overpower First District, thus depriving Milgov of important assets. Anxiety about this very unlikely event has kept Milgov supporting the District at a higher level than might otherwise be expected. BIW factors strongly in a lot of peoples' thinking in
Poseidon's Rifles.