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Zack
Queen's Slave
"Alright, you've all had a day of downtime to rest and repair. Before we get started on the next operation lets go over what happened in the last operation."
Uso looked around at the assembled group, seeing who was there and who was attending remotely via mindware. She wasn't sure if Truffleclub had been fixed yet... and Alex was certainly experiencing the worst sun-burn of his life. The treatment he received would have stopped the worst of the radiation damage but his insides were going to feel painful and itchy for a while yet.
The group itself was assembled in the main room of the Queen's Slave. The ship still not having been cleaned up, having a display table in the center of the main room that was projecting a map of Freehold. Out around the edges of the room were chairs, along with one of the half-disassembled power armors.
"The space-stuff went as planned. We have sufficient assets, and we were able to clear out enough of their ground forces using space-to-ground weaponry. This should serve as a pretty good reminder of just how dead in the water ground forces without someone contesting the space around a planet."
Uso would pause for a moment, the map zooming in on the interior of the factory.
"The ground attack is where things started to go off the rails. This was Arccos' operation, so we rightly differed to her judgement on launching the ground attack. However I want to make it clear that this was a snap-call on her part and we should avoid these kinds of engagements whenever possible. Without a plan going in we all very easily lost the ground team to nukes or whatever other fail-safes they had.
Initial entry into the underground areas by leyline immediately showed that our ground team had problems. Namely, lack of armors and lack of weapons.
I decided to move the ground team along the larger passageway, since I wanted to keep everyone together. The idea behind that is that all our big guns were on Alex's mecha, The Hound's fighter, and the Junker Drones, all of which needed the larger passage ways to move through. If all our big firepower is together, we can quickly overwhelm our targets, and move to our objective.
You should all understand that this strategy only works if speed is maintained. If the formation slows down it is very easy to get surrounded and destroyed."
The map showed a red line where the team cut through the rubble blocking their path and started moving through the main hallway.
"We came across two of the spacer tanks, and our ground team immediately got bogged down.
Alex, you kept trying to fight these tanks head on and that isn't good enough. You have to give the enemy some respect, and understand that they are going to be just as dedicated and capable of shooting at you, as you are at them. In this case we were able to use our power armor drones to attack the tank's sensors, and you were able to come up with some on the spot spoofing of their thermals, but ultimately I feel our group under-performed here.
Arccos ended up breaking away from the main group and leading some of you along another path. Our initial push was getting bogged down, so opening up another front was the right call. I want to draw everyone's attention to this, because this is top level stuff. Coordinating, talking about plans, even trying to follow a chain of command... all of this slows down a team, and if you stop moving you die.
In this case Arccos knows what the plan is, she understands that her assets aren't going to be able to contribute to that plan due to how little space there was to move around, and she implements her own plan.
This is what we should strive for. Seamless Teamwork."
Uso then turned her attention back to Alex,
"Alex also pulled a dumb move getting out of his mecha to talk... and he is paying for it now. It worked though, so I'm going to say good job Alex, and not tear him a new one."
"Corgan, Akemi, Truffleclub, you all did great as well. Just because I didn't single you out here, doesn't mean I didn't notice your performance."
Uso cleared her throat... seperating her long rant about the mission and her conclusions about what to do.
"I think it is clear we need a ground team, small, well coordinated, and capable. Arccos, I know you're going to be busy but I would like to have you involved. The same goes for the rest of you Akemi, Alex, Corgan... Maybe ace if we fit him with a remote-explode collar until he learns to behave.
I think it is also clear we need some new, real, power armor. Appropriate weapons. A training area and some time to practice together."
"Now, are there any questions or comments about the last op?"
"Alright, you've all had a day of downtime to rest and repair. Before we get started on the next operation lets go over what happened in the last operation."
Uso looked around at the assembled group, seeing who was there and who was attending remotely via mindware. She wasn't sure if Truffleclub had been fixed yet... and Alex was certainly experiencing the worst sun-burn of his life. The treatment he received would have stopped the worst of the radiation damage but his insides were going to feel painful and itchy for a while yet.
The group itself was assembled in the main room of the Queen's Slave. The ship still not having been cleaned up, having a display table in the center of the main room that was projecting a map of Freehold. Out around the edges of the room were chairs, along with one of the half-disassembled power armors.
"The space-stuff went as planned. We have sufficient assets, and we were able to clear out enough of their ground forces using space-to-ground weaponry. This should serve as a pretty good reminder of just how dead in the water ground forces without someone contesting the space around a planet."
Uso would pause for a moment, the map zooming in on the interior of the factory.
"The ground attack is where things started to go off the rails. This was Arccos' operation, so we rightly differed to her judgement on launching the ground attack. However I want to make it clear that this was a snap-call on her part and we should avoid these kinds of engagements whenever possible. Without a plan going in we all very easily lost the ground team to nukes or whatever other fail-safes they had.
Initial entry into the underground areas by leyline immediately showed that our ground team had problems. Namely, lack of armors and lack of weapons.
I decided to move the ground team along the larger passageway, since I wanted to keep everyone together. The idea behind that is that all our big guns were on Alex's mecha, The Hound's fighter, and the Junker Drones, all of which needed the larger passage ways to move through. If all our big firepower is together, we can quickly overwhelm our targets, and move to our objective.
You should all understand that this strategy only works if speed is maintained. If the formation slows down it is very easy to get surrounded and destroyed."
The map showed a red line where the team cut through the rubble blocking their path and started moving through the main hallway.
"We came across two of the spacer tanks, and our ground team immediately got bogged down.
Alex, you kept trying to fight these tanks head on and that isn't good enough. You have to give the enemy some respect, and understand that they are going to be just as dedicated and capable of shooting at you, as you are at them. In this case we were able to use our power armor drones to attack the tank's sensors, and you were able to come up with some on the spot spoofing of their thermals, but ultimately I feel our group under-performed here.
Arccos ended up breaking away from the main group and leading some of you along another path. Our initial push was getting bogged down, so opening up another front was the right call. I want to draw everyone's attention to this, because this is top level stuff. Coordinating, talking about plans, even trying to follow a chain of command... all of this slows down a team, and if you stop moving you die.
In this case Arccos knows what the plan is, she understands that her assets aren't going to be able to contribute to that plan due to how little space there was to move around, and she implements her own plan.
This is what we should strive for. Seamless Teamwork."
Uso then turned her attention back to Alex,
"Alex also pulled a dumb move getting out of his mecha to talk... and he is paying for it now. It worked though, so I'm going to say good job Alex, and not tear him a new one."
"Corgan, Akemi, Truffleclub, you all did great as well. Just because I didn't single you out here, doesn't mean I didn't notice your performance."
Uso cleared her throat... seperating her long rant about the mission and her conclusions about what to do.
"I think it is clear we need a ground team, small, well coordinated, and capable. Arccos, I know you're going to be busy but I would like to have you involved. The same goes for the rest of you Akemi, Alex, Corgan... Maybe ace if we fit him with a remote-explode collar until he learns to behave.
I think it is also clear we need some new, real, power armor. Appropriate weapons. A training area and some time to practice together."
"Now, are there any questions or comments about the last op?"
