Titles? Numbers aren't big 'bout titles, methinks. Maybe I can get a title going once I stop failing at bounty hunting. If not then, once the JS Incident kicks off, I'm sure it'll happen sooner or later. Oh, and ten points and half a cookie if you know the reference from my last post.
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"Explain yourself, Imma. I want to know every action you took, why you took them, what you know you did wrong, and what you think you could do better, from the beginning of the exercise to the end."
I looked over at Tre. Still professional, but visibly irritated. Best to placate with blunt honesty, I think.
"My first priority, from the moment the exercise began, was to put distance between the two of us. Your close-quarters combat capability exceeds my own, just as my long-range capability exceeds yours. Expanding the engagement distance is to my benefit.
I couldn't fly off just anywhere, though. Your IS makes you faster in the air than I am. Given that my greatest strength is at range, I needed to ensure that you'd stay at range; the easiest way to accomplish that was to get out of your field of vision, and stay out of it. With that in mind, I ran off into the rubble, and then began to fly around the compound, towards the most developed surviving area.
Along the way, I stopped long enough to release a set of sensing globes on a time delay. Once I was hidden, I commanded them to begin dispersing themselves into a search pattern, weighted towards the surviving portions of the base. I was under the assumption that you would seek to close distance, and wanted greater coverage of the urban environment."
Tre raised her hand, palm out, and I stopped. "Your reasoning, at this point, is sound. If I had been on my own, I would've sought to draw you into that environment, and use the buildings to cover my attacks. Disguising your location was also a reasonable move, and reasonably well-executed. Why did you not simply create more sensor globes to cover the open areas, though?"
I smiled, just a bit. "My normal deployment pattern is just that- normal. Average. In a less congested area, I can easily spread them out a good bit further without losing performance." That, and their true range is higher than I've shown to date. Not letting you know that- not unless I have to. I shifted to a frown. "...that, and I didn't expect you to stay out there. The globes I'd assigned to the open areas weren't much more than a precaution."
She nodded. "Acceptable. Continue."
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
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"Explain yourself, Imma. I want to know every action you took, why you took them, what you know you did wrong, and what you think you could do better, from the beginning of the exercise to the end."
I looked over at Tre. Still professional, but visibly irritated. Best to placate with blunt honesty, I think.
"My first priority, from the moment the exercise began, was to put distance between the two of us. Your close-quarters combat capability exceeds my own, just as my long-range capability exceeds yours. Expanding the engagement distance is to my benefit.
I couldn't fly off just anywhere, though. Your IS makes you faster in the air than I am. Given that my greatest strength is at range, I needed to ensure that you'd stay at range; the easiest way to accomplish that was to get out of your field of vision, and stay out of it. With that in mind, I ran off into the rubble, and then began to fly around the compound, towards the most developed surviving area.
Along the way, I stopped long enough to release a set of sensing globes on a time delay. Once I was hidden, I commanded them to begin dispersing themselves into a search pattern, weighted towards the surviving portions of the base. I was under the assumption that you would seek to close distance, and wanted greater coverage of the urban environment."
Tre raised her hand, palm out, and I stopped. "Your reasoning, at this point, is sound. If I had been on my own, I would've sought to draw you into that environment, and use the buildings to cover my attacks. Disguising your location was also a reasonable move, and reasonably well-executed. Why did you not simply create more sensor globes to cover the open areas, though?"
I smiled, just a bit. "My normal deployment pattern is just that- normal. Average. In a less congested area, I can easily spread them out a good bit further without losing performance." That, and their true range is higher than I've shown to date. Not letting you know that- not unless I have to. I shifted to a frown. "...that, and I didn't expect you to stay out there. The globes I'd assigned to the open areas weren't much more than a precaution."
She nodded. "Acceptable. Continue."
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.