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Episode 02: Cosmic Imperative / Re: Ch 4: S [D01 |1830] Second Station from the right and straight on till its over
Last post by RyeTanker -Lieutenant ThanIda zh'Wann frowned at the plan the Wolf was proposing. It wasn't the worst idea that she'd heard and in the absence of anything else, the shuttle crew wouldn't have a choice but to go along with it. She was frowning more over the what she remembered from the Academy about the disastrous consequences of the strike on the 3 Gorges Dam since the US military hadn't been able to totally knock out communications and word had gotten to the leadership of the group leading China at the time. It had been a case of demonstrating the need to maintain open lines of communication and keep them secured. The petrified reports from NORAD of retaliatory ballistic missiles had been quite shocking to all the students in class and it hadn't helped that the airborne assault had been a bloody shambles in the face of fierce and unexpected resistance, and the nuking of one of the landing zones.
Lt. zh'Wann stopped for a moment as an exuberant and short pilot joined while making sure she was going to be part of the mission. The Andorian quirked an eyebrow fervently hoped to avoid any nasty fates since they were placing all their eggs in a few baskets. Weapons wouldn't amount to much on a shuttle, so there was no need to power those. "Whatever you're going to do to the fighters, we'll also need it done to the shuttle. While I hope to avoid any fights, we may have to shoot our way in as well."
The mission commander stopped for a moment as she worked out the ground component's plan. "So you'll have to breach shuttle bay doors, or an area of the hull that has access to a command node. Barring that, we'll need access to an area with major computing power. If we can sneak our way in, all the better, but otherwise, we'll need to fort up while the engineers and scientists can pull any useful information, the find a way to self-destruct the place." Ida took a moment to look around at the pilots who were going to need to keep their exfiltration route clear. "And in the mean time, whatever ideas you have to keep your selves alive so we can all get out of the station, voice them now."