Quote:That's why I suggested looting a Zentraedi ship that they'd managed to wreck. Actually, if they use those big circus-tent-shaped dropshuttles to deliver ground troops, a couple of them get stranded on the island after the misfold... capture a couple of them intact and strip the engines out of them, there you go.
Quantum generators might actually make dandy heat sinks, if you just let the physics work so that they can be run in reverse... it'd provide a justification for concealing the ships' infrared signatures, particularly. Anyway, I had been thinking that the scout boats' engines were terran-built, since a mostly-uncontrolled reentry would have melted the original ones and I doubt that there are many Zentradi ships left with any spare parts at all.
Regarding ECM. Since we've established that the humans are the only ones who have any particular sophistication with it, and they are probably not going to know this going in, so ECM for something like the SDF will be majorly on-the-ball, they're going to have a fairly big advantage here. This is one the subs are definitely going to use to their advantage. Sub crews are well practiced at the slow, stealthy approach, and the ECM advantage is only going to make that better. (Which, given the general problems of small size and weak armor by comparison to the Zentraedi, is going to be their -only- advantage...)
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