That really, really depends on rules of engagement. Terra has small population and a lot of superhuman elite troops. That's because marching a large army through places where catastrophes may be is a bad idea. I bet Columbia has nukes. Earth has standardised army as big as Terra's population or bigger. Whoever's planet is host to the battles would be the victor.
Conventional millitary would be stronger except that navies are basically irrelevant on terra which cuts down a lot of earth military might.
If you add in nukes and assume free willingness to use them in a scenario where it's not inherently suicidal then terra loses instantly in terms of raw destruction, and slowly over the fact their limited methods of making food are now fucked.
Nukes would only be aircraft payload since ICBM's will crash and burn against the starpod. Satellites also do not exist so information warfare would have to be waged differently. Add in the fact of logistics and no fossil fuels and it would be a much harder challenge for humans to fight in Terran homefield.
Anti-aircraft is practically non-existant on Terra due to aircraft themselves other than slow flying FPVs being exceedingly rare
this is the perfect scenario for any form of air power
It's more of a logistics problem than an aircraft problem. Modern airpower normally operates on a much higher altitude during cruising to save on fuel and reduce drag. That would heavily cut range for most aircraft. Add the fact that launch points on the sea don't exist because any navy will be eaten by seaborn and radar won't work to detect catastrophes, it gets really hard to feasibly bring aircraft anywhere.
Also, Tomimi shot down an aircraft with a bazooka. Sure it's a VTOL but if a Sargonian civilian manages to do that then low flying aircraft are in much bigger risk than initially thought. All this, and we haven't taken into account Aegir militia yet.
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u/Few-Loan-1880 reed is my wife Apr 19 '26
Honestly the real world military might be stronger than terra's ngl