From: "Noah Scott" (bigcheese@stellvia.lib)
To: Operation FIREFALL Mailing List (firefall@sovietairforce.fen)
Date: November 23, 2016
Subj: [FIREFALL] Re:Operational Planning
> The highest-ranking US government official currently known to be in
> orbit is the Mayor of Luna City. I've already been in communication with
> him, and with Caldwell and Dodge. Unless there's a Senator or something
> honeymooning in Crystal Tokyo, Stellvia, or Tokyo that I'm not aware of,
> it's either him, or we figure out who's senior among the State
> Department people in various embassies.
No USGov personnel were vacationing at Stellvia or Odyssey on 18-19
November.
Related to that, I'm sure that Col. Caldwell has already compared notes
between Pearl Harbor, Guam, Okinawa, Brussels, Baghdad, Kabul, Kandahar,
1625 The NORC, Benjamin Franklin Station, and wherever else I've
forgotten about, and found the highest-ranking US officer still present.
Who's the acting Chief of Staff, Colonel?
> All the US Bases in Japan are untouched, and let me tell you that is no
> small amount of firepower. Last I heard, Commander, Naval Forces, Japan
> has ordered a show of force by having just about anything that can get
> underway do a quick little tour along the backside of Japan. You know,
> remind everyone who was still here. May I suggest we get those boys some
> gas for the tincans and planes? Last I checked, the only nuclear
> platform there was the good old G-Dub.
Stellvia Corporation's fuel division, StellOil, will make available
whatever fuel we can supply and the US Navy, Air Force, Army, Marines,
and what's left of the Coast Guard need at no charge until we get our
USA back. (I'll ask for payment then, but that's down the road.)
Most of you have seen the refueling options available at Stellvia and
Odyssey. For those few who haven't, we can supply 89-octane gasoline,
diesel, avgas, Jet A-1 (works just like Jet A but has a lower freezing
point), and a limited amount of bunker oil (originally for the Inelegant
Truth) and JP-7 (originally for the Roughriders' Blackbirds)
immediately. Anything else, or large supplies of bunker oil, will
require setting up new refining plants at Crystal Titusville, so tell us
now before the current supplies run out. (At this rate, StellviaCorp is
going to end up owning Crystal Titusville outright, considering how much
infrastructure StellOil already owns there...)
> But hey, you know how I feel about these things. If anyone starts to get
> too pushy we can just offer to drop rocks on their heads. I think the
> situation has gotten bad enough to warrant it. The warning, that is, not
> the act.
StellviaCorp is negotiating with the Solomon Islands to purchase
outright an atoll that nobody will miss, for target practice.
I'll allow *one* pre-announced rock-drop only on that atoll, folks. We
don't need more than one to prove we can hit whatever we want to hit,
and we want to keep the environmental impact to a minimum. (If
Featherston thinks we faked the drop, then and only then we can drop a
second test rock somewhere else.)
> Hell, even if it doesn't I'm sure that they're working on a way to get
> our USA back...
Replace "they" with "StellviaCorp", and you're right.
> Finally, we need to get some grief councilors on the scene, like
> yesterday.
I'll drop a hint to that effect into Buckaroo's in-basket.
> If anyone can think of any other issues that need to be addressed,
> please say so.
Effective immediately, I'm detaching R. Kagome Mishima from Stellvia to
serve with the FIREFALL operational staff. She's an excellent tactician
and strategist; just don't let her talk directly with the enemy. (Or
anyone else not in the loop, for that matter. Her inability to keep
quiet is why she's only an OF-3.)
She can't be the entirety of the FIREFALL operational staff, though;
we're going to need more experts working alongside her.
--
Noah Scott, of station Stellvia
"In any confrontation, your goal must be to win. There is no sense in
pursuing a confrontation in a way that will leave you or your cause
worse off than when it began." - J.D Salinger, March 1999
(OOC: "Crystal Titusville: Birthplace of the Fen Oil Industry" Since we've retconned that StellviaCorp supplies fuel from Venus to Earth, it seems reasonable to retcon the existence of a place above Venus to actually make that fuel, and the Americas Cluster was rather empty...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
To: Operation FIREFALL Mailing List (firefall@sovietairforce.fen)
Date: November 23, 2016
Subj: [FIREFALL] Re:Operational Planning
> The highest-ranking US government official currently known to be in
> orbit is the Mayor of Luna City. I've already been in communication with
> him, and with Caldwell and Dodge. Unless there's a Senator or something
> honeymooning in Crystal Tokyo, Stellvia, or Tokyo that I'm not aware of,
> it's either him, or we figure out who's senior among the State
> Department people in various embassies.
No USGov personnel were vacationing at Stellvia or Odyssey on 18-19
November.
Related to that, I'm sure that Col. Caldwell has already compared notes
between Pearl Harbor, Guam, Okinawa, Brussels, Baghdad, Kabul, Kandahar,
1625 The NORC, Benjamin Franklin Station, and wherever else I've
forgotten about, and found the highest-ranking US officer still present.
Who's the acting Chief of Staff, Colonel?
> All the US Bases in Japan are untouched, and let me tell you that is no
> small amount of firepower. Last I heard, Commander, Naval Forces, Japan
> has ordered a show of force by having just about anything that can get
> underway do a quick little tour along the backside of Japan. You know,
> remind everyone who was still here. May I suggest we get those boys some
> gas for the tincans and planes? Last I checked, the only nuclear
> platform there was the good old G-Dub.
Stellvia Corporation's fuel division, StellOil, will make available
whatever fuel we can supply and the US Navy, Air Force, Army, Marines,
and what's left of the Coast Guard need at no charge until we get our
USA back. (I'll ask for payment then, but that's down the road.)
Most of you have seen the refueling options available at Stellvia and
Odyssey. For those few who haven't, we can supply 89-octane gasoline,
diesel, avgas, Jet A-1 (works just like Jet A but has a lower freezing
point), and a limited amount of bunker oil (originally for the Inelegant
Truth) and JP-7 (originally for the Roughriders' Blackbirds)
immediately. Anything else, or large supplies of bunker oil, will
require setting up new refining plants at Crystal Titusville, so tell us
now before the current supplies run out. (At this rate, StellviaCorp is
going to end up owning Crystal Titusville outright, considering how much
infrastructure StellOil already owns there...)
> But hey, you know how I feel about these things. If anyone starts to get
> too pushy we can just offer to drop rocks on their heads. I think the
> situation has gotten bad enough to warrant it. The warning, that is, not
> the act.
StellviaCorp is negotiating with the Solomon Islands to purchase
outright an atoll that nobody will miss, for target practice.
I'll allow *one* pre-announced rock-drop only on that atoll, folks. We
don't need more than one to prove we can hit whatever we want to hit,
and we want to keep the environmental impact to a minimum. (If
Featherston thinks we faked the drop, then and only then we can drop a
second test rock somewhere else.)
> Hell, even if it doesn't I'm sure that they're working on a way to get
> our USA back...
Replace "they" with "StellviaCorp", and you're right.
> Finally, we need to get some grief councilors on the scene, like
> yesterday.
I'll drop a hint to that effect into Buckaroo's in-basket.
> If anyone can think of any other issues that need to be addressed,
> please say so.
Effective immediately, I'm detaching R. Kagome Mishima from Stellvia to
serve with the FIREFALL operational staff. She's an excellent tactician
and strategist; just don't let her talk directly with the enemy. (Or
anyone else not in the loop, for that matter. Her inability to keep
quiet is why she's only an OF-3.)
She can't be the entirety of the FIREFALL operational staff, though;
we're going to need more experts working alongside her.
--
Noah Scott, of station Stellvia
"In any confrontation, your goal must be to win. There is no sense in
pursuing a confrontation in a way that will leave you or your cause
worse off than when it began." - J.D Salinger, March 1999
(OOC: "Crystal Titusville: Birthplace of the Fen Oil Industry" Since we've retconned that StellviaCorp supplies fuel from Venus to Earth, it seems reasonable to retcon the existence of a place above Venus to actually make that fuel, and the Americas Cluster was rather empty...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012