"We speak mostly Nepleslian, so it is hard to say. We did not grow up over decades hearing Yamataian spoken and used along side action. Perhaps if we had, envy and jealousy would be less prominent. After all, our true parent is the Empire, and it is her actions we are regularly presented with."
Yukari relayed a message to Tom, to appear before him in an image panel, asking if the fold drive was ready and able to provide the interdiction field they needed. Communications was her place, but as she scrolled through the stock programming
Miharu had to offer in terms of jamming setups, she frowned. Nearly all were suited to Mishhuvurthyar vessels, and the jamming done to the
Ming Po had been all-encompassing, leaving only short-wave radios for communication. She could not have that again; if they were expected to communicate with the ground force, she had to find a better link.
Telepathic signals, radio frequencies, and directed-beam transmissions were her options. Subspace and hyperspace would most certainly have to be blocked completely, as it would be only a matter of time before an enemy vessel found that signal and exploited it, forcing her to shuffle those frequencies again and disrupt vital communication.
She considered telepathic signals fired from
Miharu down to
Hoshi, then fired from that vessel to the armors. That kind of communication would reveal
Hoshi's position, not to mention
Miharu's. Radio would need to be blocked, and though frequencies could be randomized, piercing through the white-noise jamming of
Miharu was time-consuming for her to do. She wanted as much attention as possible to be put to flying and shooting.
Directed beams gave away
Hoshi's position as well, depending on how they were broadcast. Yukari examined
Miharu's library for an alternate solution, combing different communication systems she could replicate. A promising one was using serial tachyons fired from the ship's CFS — if the field went down, the ship would likely be in a poor position to communicate anyway. The tachyon stream could be two tachyons thick, providing enough bandwidth for audible messages. She began putting that system into place, relying on the Daisy 1C models to relay transmissions from
Hoshi to the squads.
The transmission chain would go —
Code:
Miharu > Hoshi > Daisy 1C > All armors
— with armors starting with the 1C models and going up. It was slow and imperfect, but it allowed for near-perfect comm jamming. It would have to do.
"Taisa," Yukari said. "Should we be in armor ourselves?"
