I admit, my writing did emphasize the style rather than the logic, although that was there too. I wanted it to be
cool, you know? At least, I wanted to try to make a dramatic entry. He's got something like a dozen kilometers of ship to try and stop me with, so I figured I could at least get this far in one post without it being 'teh godmodzors'. Now, at the same time, I'm open to fair-minded criticism and constructive suggestions - which means if the post needs pairing down a little, or the details must be discussed, I'm ready to do so, maybe first on AIM then here in the OOC thread.
I would like to say, though, that this
is my plan, and I think it's well-though-out enough to work so far - even the technical details, which are generally my weakness. Stealth Intruders use a series of cameras and screen to recreate images all around and make themselves invisible, so they could surely be used to hide the actual activity on one side by showing a static image? An SSD's hangar bay must be large enough to accomodate a lot, heck, in a New Hope a regular Star Destroyer holds a ship some 100m long. There are risks, I understand, but that's sort of the whole idea and the coolness of this - it's a risky plan. There's no one part that couldn't happen, so far as I can see, and after all it's only the beginning of the true battle. There's plenty of time for more surprises, reversals of fortune, and the like.
While we're on the topic of discussing any issues we have with threads, however, I fear I must speak again about Omega's actions at Kubindi - and I know! Instantly, I fear controversy will fall from the sky. I'm sorry to bring up such an issue, especially after how much editing has gone on in the last two posts, but this new edit is, to be honest, a whole new issue.
I can accept that, given time, you could use Turbolasers to burrow through compacted (and probably reinforced) earth and rock. The ammount of time it would take, though, to achieve this with a dreadnought would surely be much longer?
I know, I know, it's odd to see me be a stickler for technical details, but in one post, under fire, you blast a hole through the crust of the planet itself the right size and shape to land your ship over?
Sadly, this came from the initial argument we had over this new post, whereby I said that you were acting with too much strength for a force that is more or less trapped and outmatched in pure offensive capabilities. This is not your
fault, I want to point out. How could you have known in advance that the Azguards would be posted to defend the East? The logical thing would be to guess that when the army is away, the nation is less well-defended, but I didn't send the Coalition's whole army.
I would say, however, that you did not react well tactically to this situation - and yes, I know that it's odd to hear me dispensing tactical advice (See: Entire battle of Corellia). I mean, the force facing you was much larger than expected, so you tried to smash straight through it. You lost your air-cover, so started to try and land troops, but without air-cover we could attack from above. Which is the situation now.
My point is, that right now, I do not think your forces could force their way very far into the caves, nor that you could fly out in the open (without a shield, I might add) and drill a hole through the earth without the Coalition's frigates attacking you from the sky. Excuse the pun, but you seem caught between "A rock and a hard place", and it doesn't seem at all logical that you can blow up the rock.
To be honest, my mistaken last post that was originaly written with a route of your two dreadnoughts was indeed a mistake, but I have yet to figure out what you could do in this situation to change the course of events to something else. I'm open to what you want to do as a writer, but I won't bend on something like this just so you can get some kills on the civilian population to salvage your mission. I'm sorry, but I'm going to be firm on this one.
*EDIT* Oh, and P.S. If your concerns about the SSD thing was when Yolem reached out and tore something out of the computer, I just really wanted him to tear something out of something - heart from chest, memory from computer, whatever. I'm not saying he just crippled the whole ship's systems, just maybe influenced a small region of them temporarily.
