[Blue_Esper]

Originally Posted by [B5]Londo

You dont have to build it is not an excuse for having a silly ship in the stats. You might as well say Terr is a useless race in this stats set (can they actually attack anyone other than cat?), you dont have to play em if you dont want too! But ofc that results in a rather unbalanced universe which is bad for everyone.
In practice it would be a mad to appoint it as an ally def ship even if you ARE an FR/DE alliance, because there are so many ships do the same thing better (and without the unfortunate effect of stealing CR that doesnt fit your strat!). An FR/DE alliance would in any event have to be building FI/CO as defence ships to cover their attack fleets failure to shoot FR/DE, so why would be designating a poor ship that reinforces an area where you are already strong.

because sending de to def with fr isn't very resourceful,

terran has plenty of attacking options they fr might not be tip top, but their bs and fi have plenty of options to attack