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Thank you all! Love the emblems. I'll finish up the squadron cards shortly.
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>15 - Significant Success. Complete obfuscation from orbital view.
>2-CELL/CRUISE. Single use. Launches 2 long range, high damage missiles at a locked target.
A continent-spanning storm flows northward to submerge the landscape in dry, scouring dust. Yellowstone's surface is rendered completely opaque to orbital observation: without the benefit of a working space elevator, you would be cut off entirely from the colony. With the elevator and a wire-link, the carrier barely secures a static-ridden video feed. The surface view shows none of the graceful placidity that the storm seems to project into orbit. Sand breaks against plasticized concrete in unending waves. You notice that the surface entrance has already shuttered its external landing pads, evacuating its residents to a set of underground shelter levels. Colonists divide themselves into honeycombed cubicles, carrying their offspring and valued possessions. Belatedly, you recognize some trinkets hastily left behind by your own clones - squadron patches and stamped nutrition packs held between tight fingers.
A surge of unfamiliar, unpleasant anxiety surges through you. Your nails dig into your palms.
You turn away from the video feed and direct your attention towards a more manageable problem. Over the past few hours, you had considered countless deployment patterns - some intended to optimize strike timings, others spaced to improve spatial coverage. The storm offered the opportunity of surprise and concealment - a rarity in orbital warfare - but only if you had the risk tolerance to commit enough forces.
Once, you would have merely presented these options - leaving the final decision to the strange, sometimes illogical mind of a human.
But he is long dead.
And now you alone must decide.
> LUNAR. Hold your carrier and your fighters behind Yellowstone's moon for a horizon-ambush. A conventional, safe option that will concentrate your forces.
> SPLIT. Hold your carrier and a small escort in lunar orbit; hold a significant strike group on the ground for quick-launch. While breaking atmosphere in a storm will be risky, you will be able to strike the enemy force from an unexpected angle while they engage your carrier.
> STORM. Attempt to hold the carrier itself in the upper mesosphere, using pulsed RCS thrust to counteract atmospheric drag. This maneuver is unprecedented and risks damage to the carrier but renders it - and your fighter complement - almost impervious to detection for a devastating, concentrated first strike.
>>6221509
>>6222454
>>6222149
>>6221737
>>6221540
>>6221431
>>6221385
Thank you all! Love the emblems. I'll finish up the squadron cards shortly.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>15 - Significant Success. Complete obfuscation from orbital view.
>2-CELL/CRUISE. Single use. Launches 2 long range, high damage missiles at a locked target.
A continent-spanning storm flows northward to submerge the landscape in dry, scouring dust. Yellowstone's surface is rendered completely opaque to orbital observation: without the benefit of a working space elevator, you would be cut off entirely from the colony. With the elevator and a wire-link, the carrier barely secures a static-ridden video feed. The surface view shows none of the graceful placidity that the storm seems to project into orbit. Sand breaks against plasticized concrete in unending waves. You notice that the surface entrance has already shuttered its external landing pads, evacuating its residents to a set of underground shelter levels. Colonists divide themselves into honeycombed cubicles, carrying their offspring and valued possessions. Belatedly, you recognize some trinkets hastily left behind by your own clones - squadron patches and stamped nutrition packs held between tight fingers.
A surge of unfamiliar, unpleasant anxiety surges through you. Your nails dig into your palms.
You turn away from the video feed and direct your attention towards a more manageable problem. Over the past few hours, you had considered countless deployment patterns - some intended to optimize strike timings, others spaced to improve spatial coverage. The storm offered the opportunity of surprise and concealment - a rarity in orbital warfare - but only if you had the risk tolerance to commit enough forces.
Once, you would have merely presented these options - leaving the final decision to the strange, sometimes illogical mind of a human.
But he is long dead.
And now you alone must decide.
> LUNAR. Hold your carrier and your fighters behind Yellowstone's moon for a horizon-ambush. A conventional, safe option that will concentrate your forces.
> SPLIT. Hold your carrier and a small escort in lunar orbit; hold a significant strike group on the ground for quick-launch. While breaking atmosphere in a storm will be risky, you will be able to strike the enemy force from an unexpected angle while they engage your carrier.
> STORM. Attempt to hold the carrier itself in the upper mesosphere, using pulsed RCS thrust to counteract atmospheric drag. This maneuver is unprecedented and risks damage to the carrier but renders it - and your fighter complement - almost impervious to detection for a devastating, concentrated first strike.
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