YSS Eucharis - Bridge
Hanako turned to Majime and smirked. "I have an idea."
"What's the idea, Shôshô?" Majime asked.
"Consider our circumstances," Hanako said. "We are a small ship and our fleet's forces are significantly outnumbered. What would help us even the odds in this situation?"
Majime said in an assured voice, "Changing the photonics array of all armors to show the pilot's nude form?"
"This is a serious situation, so I need a serious answer. If we fail to use our wisdom here, there is a strong chance we will all die in the next twenty minutes," Hanako chastised her first officer.
Majime steadied her thought process and replied, "We can even the odds by using them against them in many ways. We could use their own tactics against them, albeit in an inventive way, and slave their ships to our own through your hacking abilities and AI understanding. I am not sure of that plan, but I am sure you likely have a better one..."
"That is actually almost exactly what I was thinking," Hanako said. "At first I was thinking where could we find reinforcements, such as the HX-12 scrapyard, or calling other fleets, or allied nations. However, they are probably occupied and would take too long to get here. But the answer is right in front of us. Literally right in front of us. If we need to find ships, there is a massive enemy fleet in front of us and we have teleporters standard on the new Mindy armor. If we can take down their shields we can send strike teams to their bridges and direct the ships to fire on the invasion fleet instead of us. If we took a command ship we could even send out a false order that one of their corporate sub-fleets has turned on them and needs to be eliminated. In a previous battle we used Charisma to track communications between ships to find out which was the leader of a Mishhuvurthyar fleet. Perhaps I can do something similar here."
Majime's eyes were downcast as she listened intently until the plan was fully realized. The XO spoke, "I don't think the current communication channels they're using are registering enough spikes to one specific ship for us to note the main vessel of their fleet." She wasted no time coming to a conclusion that could utilize Charisma's basic capabilities. "We could jam their comms with the Type 31 EWS momentarily and locate the source of the fleet's command through the signature spikes that follow, once their communications are no longer interrupted by us. What do you think?"
"Do it!" Hanako ordered.
(OOC: Mini-JP between me and
@Ametheliana )