Inclusive idea

Posted on 02/24/2012 @ 10:16am by Captain Kheren
Edited on on 02/24/2012 @ 10:20am

Mission: Azimuth Horizon: Crusade - Chapter 3: Preparations
Location: Starbase 10 main conference hall

Kheren realized that his first officer had cleverly provided quite a valuable insight to a novel, dramatic situation that until now had them all thinking vertically. Although the captain of the Artemis was no engineer, he was a tactician, albeit one with a degree in cosmology... enough to understand what was discussed. And like all Andorians, he was pragmatic by nature. And so he simply chimed in:

"Sir... why not use the shuttles themselves then?"

With all eyes on him, he felt dutybound to explain:

"Basically, yes, warp cores are just big bombs. Torpedoes should do the trick as well if in sufficient numbers and proper grouping... but pinpointing them inside subspace fractures to have them interact with them as we want, without drifting or loosing contact signal would put a huge uncertainty into the whole plan... Also, torpedoes can not even begin to get from here to the anomaly over a light year away, so we would have to carry them and deploy them like mines, just like we would have done with the warp cores. I don't know about you, gentlebeings, but the idea of cruising through a minefield while enemies may come and shoot wildly at us is suddenly worrysome to me... wether we use warheads or power cores..."

Shaking his head, Kheren looked at the starbase commander.

"Sir, piloted shuttles have weapons, shields and evasives to defend themselves... and pilots who can bring them in place and start a cascade failure of their power core right at the proper moment, like after we have dealt with interference, as we retrieve them and clear the zone before the final detonation."