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Emodriver Plot Role Info

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So Hacet's been quietly planning/compiling what he (and his spies) know, and suchlike in week one ~~I plan to get that toplevel up today /cough~~

And the payoff should be in the battle that's supposed to happen in week 2. He's been working hard on finding means where the Aurigan fleet can pull a surprise victory in spite of smaller numbers on the EDSF. He's been looking into flanking maneuvers, surprise attacks, faking a loss to drive the Earth forces into a position where they can be attacked, laying traps and etc.

I need to know what he can work with. Are there places where he could hide ships/troops (disguising them as wrecks on the front lines/perhaps)? Can he arrange for the battle to take place somewhere particular? Can he plant some kind of mines or other weapon to be activated at the right time? Is there a way that he could mess with sensors to encourage friendly fire? (Or does he have ships that could get the enemy into position around them and duck out of the way fast enough that friendly fire happens anyway?)

Regarding intelligence, I'm assuming he's figured out that there is some new weapon at the very least (he has had issues with misinformation (thanks Kinji) but he's almost certainly gotten accurate info too). He'd like to lure it out before it's finished testing if he can, in hopes of exploiting bugs that haven't been worked out yet. He's totally willing to sacrifice people to sabotage things too.

Hiding ships as derelicts is a great plan, and luring them into the debris field with torpedoes waiting in the wings is a nice trick! (And what is a torpedo but a mine with an engine?)

While electronic warfare/hacking the sensors that badly would be a neat trick, blinding the sensors and sending stealthy corvettes into a compromising position is ~~also possible~~ far more achievable and works about as well. As is sending in artillery ships hovering at maximum range to snipe.

You may also want to split the enemy forces by pulling out people from Ceres to Phobos at the last minute and SURPRISE WE HAD ASSETS IN PLACE IN THE CERES SHIP GRAVEYARD get dunked on ESDF.

Edited 2019-09-28 20:44 (UTC)

Those all sound like great ideas!

He's definitely going to be hiding forces in the derelicts and torpedoing then! Also sniper artillery ships.

Could he use a bit of sensor trickery and visual camouflage to make EDSF think his corvettes are on their side and ~surprise~ they're not? Alternately, (and I've seen this trick on a sci-fi show) can he set up some of his smaller ships with scramblers to make it seem like he has a lot more capital ships in the area he wants the EDSF to head to where he wants them and ~surprise~ the actual capital ships have been sent elsewhere.

Staging a very visible pull-out to Phobos, to lure EDSF into ambushes with forces with ships he's put in place for when they respond is definitely something he'd do!

How much of it can he accomplish at once with the forces he has available?

Corvettes or Q-ships (Totally Merchant Ships, Don't Worry About It) fitted with fake transponders is a thing you can try!

You're probably not going to be able to fake the drive signature of Like A Kjbillion Capships, but you could fake Like A Kjbillion Mecha or Missiles.

You would have to commit a fair amount of your reserves to this, which means you're up a creek if it fails, but the losses inflicted are potentially devastating. It also helps that this is a plan reliant on mostly frigates, corvettes, and artillery ships rather than on huger and irreplacable ships. High risk, high reward.

He would totally fake mecha, and maybe a cap ship or two if he could, in formations that seem like protecting a major weapon (or a Princely flagship?). Make the fakes seem Important.

Hacet is the High Risk, High Reward guy.

And he has a backup plan if things go south. Probably multiple ones. I'm... not sure of what they are at the moment though. Any ideas?

They probably involve more classical "retreat under the covering fire of a dreadnought's cannons/ those same artie ships," quite frankly. Ogres are also primarily defensive assets.

Sounds reasonable. But I'm thinking there's going to be a Stirring Speech that encourages captured Imperials to pull "I'm taking you down with me!" and the option of taking suicide bombs of some kind with them just in case.

(he may or may not ask if a trusted soldier to volunteer to be captured in order to spread disinformation too)

by which I mean, incredible, do it

/villainous laughter

I mean.

/very serious military demeanor

This plan makes me have to ask: what's the "range" on Stone's mech-whispering abilities? Like. Can he TELL those are fake mechs or does he have to be within a certain distance? XD

(This might help explain some of his amazing fighter pilot-y skills if he's reading the OTHER guys' mechs, too, tbh)

I was imagining that to get a real read requires touching the mech, but a vague fuzz from a distance absolutely works, and Emodriver equipment could well extend that range.

It's too damn cool an image for him to go "something's wrong, those machines have no emotions" for me to reject it.

Nice! :D

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