and they're all smaller corvettes/frigates armed with missiles instead of mass drivers

That's not my point. If the Earth fleet can only field 80 ships because of the debris field, nothing stops the allies from helping out.

Unless you included them in the tally.

I mean the aliens have very few ships

I included them

in the tally

humans have a huge industrial power

Okay. LOL I was thinking if the humans have 80, what are the rest doing?

lol

its basically a shitshow

the leader of the fleet is a lieutenant

because every other higher officer gets killed

Are you planning on doing it ship scale, fleet scale, or grand scale?

fleet scale

basically focusing on one person

who enlisted in the navy

Okay, that's more ship scale.

yeah

Battlestar Galactica was mostly ship scale.

okay yeah

then ship scale

its hard to do a good grand scale

Very. LOL

because you dont get to know anyone

basically the main character is the leader of the fleet

I started slow in my own main universe, then expanded from there until it was huge.

nice

I find it easier to do a single story on one person

then do another in the same universe

on a different person

Works well to a point, yep.

not too far, yeah

But I think you have the basics laid out okay, it's getting into the details that'll take the most work.

definitely

would you mind sending me one of your novels? grand scale sci fi sounds interestering

I'm still working on the first full novel. I ran with short stories up until now.

oh ok

I tried and failed with the first draft

70 pages of crap

now I'm completely restarting

basically the same core concept