>>6039895As your tactical officer gives his half of the fire team a briefing on the benefits of pinpoint accuracy, you gather in your chosen shipmen for a pep talk of your own. While you readily admit you don’t quite have the raw charisma that your more socially inclined officers (namely Kiro and Isobel) do, you have studied hard to hone your <span class="mu-b">[Leadership]</span> skills and know exactly what to say to inspire your crew. In fact, you’d say that you’re as in sync with the gamma watch crew as anyone not on a first name basis could be expected to be. As a result, your fire team leans in closely as you explain the game plan to them, hanging off every word.
>>6039892>Beta Watch Crew Synergy set to max starting rank. (64%)“Alright team, this will be a fairly standard point defence drill.” You wave over the six shipmen, and they scoot along the wide bench seat until they are close enough to hear your conspiratorial stage whisper.
“We’ll be running the scenario as if a cluster of five enemy torpedoes has broken through our interception perimeter and are beginning terminal manoeuvres. Your job will be to shoot down as many as you can with only the point defence weapons mounted in DEW Bank D — hard or soft kills are acceptable.” You glance over your shoulder at Coen’s team, a number of which are giving your huddle the suspicious side-eye. “The twist is, you’ll be competing with the other half of your regular fire team.”
One of the Tyllano in your band of weapon’s technicians — one Tears-at-Prey by the name on his uniform — raises a downy palm.
“Go ahead, Shipman TaP.” You nod.
“Lieutenant Commander, if I may… How do you expect us to bring down a whole clutch of torps with only half a fireteam?” He cocks his large grey head at a steep angle in confusion. “There’s six DEWs able to act as point defence against bogeys that size and only six of us… If we’re all aiming, who will keep the guns calibrated?”
“Um… we could pair off?” A small dusky scaled Marrok pipes up hesitantly. “If we slaved together pairs and set them to wide beam… maybe we could target multiple torps at once? Or is that a bad idea?” She blinks her large, bright eyes abashedly and looks down.
“No, that’s a good suggestion Ms…” You surreptitiously flick your eyes to the little lizard’s name tag and continue without missing a beat, “Starii. In fact that is probably the most expedient solution when you’re missing members of your crew and the guns are running hot.” You nod encouragingly.
In fact, you can hear your Tactical officer explaining just such a tactic to his team across the room. But you have something better in mind.
“But we’re going to need an edge if we want to win this little competition, and you <span class="mu-i">do</span> want to win, don’t you?” You shield your mouth and continue on in a loud whisper, causing your temporary crew to lean in closer still.
