Fun fact about real life humans. Europe had functioning designs and examples of steel cannons for a long time before they were ever used in battle. And its not from a lack of opportunity.
Leaders just didn’t care for the expense or risk of upgrading when brass had worked so well for napoleon.
Same with the machine jun, they weren’t used (in europe) for years for various small mostly subjective reasons.
And then someone lost without them.
And everyone got the upgrades.
Picture this: Space war, other species see humans as a loud but primitive race that only just joined the stars, easy to crush. The first few battles even go there way.
And then suddenly our weapons are MUCH better. Our ships we MUCH better. Our computers and training and shields. Everything is leaps and bounds ahead.
Cause you see we’ve had that technology for years, we just didn’t implement it because there was no need to. Whether it’s human nature or capitalism, we don’t improve until we’re forced to, until something makes us.
But now there was a war,
now we could justify the cost,
so we stopped holding ourselves back.
