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Second Thoughts: Secret Warriors - SPOILERS
Okay. Some of you know that I've been a SHIELD/Nick Fury fan for a while now. So my interest in Secret Warriors won't be a surprise.
Some stuff's been going on in the last couple of issues that almost threw me out of the story. Now, I'm not so sure that Jonathan Hickman hasn't in fact thought things through.
Over the course of Secret Warriors # 4-7, Nick's been putting together a private army with eyes on sweeping the likes of HYDRA, Norman Osborn's HAMMER operation and other bona fide evildoers off the boards. First off, recruiting assorted remnants of SHIELD now operating as the Howling Commandos Private Military Contractors. Then stealing three Helicarriers right out from under HAMMER control in spite of some token resistance from HAMMER and some very strenuous objections from HYDRA. He got, along with those Helicarriers, some 3,000 extra volunteers from out of the HAMMER agents assigned to the base where the 'Carriers were docked.
That was in # 4-6, I believe.
He and his "Caterpillars" - a team of super-powered agents headed up by Daisy "Quake" Johnson, whom you may recall from Secret War and that whole mess in Latveria that backfired on NYC a year later - ripped off a HYDRA-owned Swiss bank to the tune of US$ 1.2 billion.
Now here's where my fiscal/logistical skepticism started to bubble up.
I figured this: I didn't know what the cost of running a Helicarrier every year was, but I was reasonably sure I could scare up figures for real-world "wet-navy" CVNs, which is technologically close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades. Surely, that money Nick took from Graf von Strucker wouldn't be enough to run even one carrier for more than a few months, let alone three for years?
Turns out, Wikipedia's entry on the Nimitz-class CVNs says the average per-annum on one of those CVNs is US$ 160 million.
So, the money's apparently not going to be a problem for the former Colonel Fury for a couple of years at least, barring surprise expenditures on the horizon or embezzlement by one of Nick's "Caterpillars". Neither of which I'm ruling out as plot developments as this series goes onward.
Finding enough crew to run each of those babies is going to be another matter, though. No way can you expect me to believe that each Helicarrier can run with barely a thousand people per "boat"!
Some stuff's been going on in the last couple of issues that almost threw me out of the story. Now, I'm not so sure that Jonathan Hickman hasn't in fact thought things through.
Over the course of Secret Warriors # 4-7, Nick's been putting together a private army with eyes on sweeping the likes of HYDRA, Norman Osborn's HAMMER operation and other bona fide evildoers off the boards. First off, recruiting assorted remnants of SHIELD now operating as the Howling Commandos Private Military Contractors. Then stealing three Helicarriers right out from under HAMMER control in spite of some token resistance from HAMMER and some very strenuous objections from HYDRA. He got, along with those Helicarriers, some 3,000 extra volunteers from out of the HAMMER agents assigned to the base where the 'Carriers were docked.
That was in # 4-6, I believe.
He and his "Caterpillars" - a team of super-powered agents headed up by Daisy "Quake" Johnson, whom you may recall from Secret War and that whole mess in Latveria that backfired on NYC a year later - ripped off a HYDRA-owned Swiss bank to the tune of US$ 1.2 billion.
Now here's where my fiscal/logistical skepticism started to bubble up.
I figured this: I didn't know what the cost of running a Helicarrier every year was, but I was reasonably sure I could scare up figures for real-world "wet-navy" CVNs, which is technologically close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades. Surely, that money Nick took from Graf von Strucker wouldn't be enough to run even one carrier for more than a few months, let alone three for years?
Turns out, Wikipedia's entry on the Nimitz-class CVNs says the average per-annum on one of those CVNs is US$ 160 million.
So, the money's apparently not going to be a problem for the former Colonel Fury for a couple of years at least, barring surprise expenditures on the horizon or embezzlement by one of Nick's "Caterpillars". Neither of which I'm ruling out as plot developments as this series goes onward.
Finding enough crew to run each of those babies is going to be another matter, though. No way can you expect me to believe that each Helicarrier can run with barely a thousand people per "boat"!
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But they still need C³I, engine room, air wing at minimum, right?
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(As for the air wing... Fury doesn't really think in those terms).
Plus, in issue #6, he asks for 3 divisions worth of men. Assuming he meant US Army divisions, that's 10-20K per helicarrier.
Dum Dum will be a busy man...
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(How is he gonna keep'em secure for when he needs them? Can the new Howlers' UN contractual connections provide some kind of diplomatic/security cover from an Osborn-influenced USGov? What's the name of that agency the rest of the UN set up to fill SHIELD's boots after Washington forced them to disband?)
The key point of a CV - airborne or waterbound - is the portability of an air wing. So they're gonna need one for each of those babies. Assuming they've already got the planes, someone's got to fly'em and someone's gotta keep 'em fueled and fixed up.
Three divisions? Infantry? Oy. That money from the HYDRA bank isn't gonna last as long as I thought, is it? So whatever Nick's got planned, he's got to move with more speed.
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And while we're on the subject of those three divisions...
Re: And while we're on the subject of those three divisions...
Re: And while we're on the subject of those three divisions...
And maybe a few Legion Halls (http://legion.ca/) as well?