>>5683556“I will take a team to the south coast,” you decide, “and form a crew of volunteers on-site. Helen, please lead the landside efforts - scouting, target identification, and preparations. Agreed?”
Helen nods. “Agreed.”
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Your team is thoughtfully selected for maximum effectiveness. Alexa was an obvious inclusion - in a smaller team, it’s critical that you be able to detect any awakened soldiers as quickly as possible, ideally before even making the landing. Then you chose to bring two more members of your group whom you judge to be the most suited to a dangerous mission that requires both stealth and careful sabotage of enemy assets. To meet these demands you choose to rely on Solaris for her combination of discipline and brute strength, and Valentina for her precision-based yōki manipulation techniques.
When you arrive at the shipyards your first move is to order the engine moved from storage to a workshop where several of your captured and surrendered technicians from the continent will work under Valentina’s direct observation. Then you task the master builder with selecting a hull that meets your needs in terms of its draught, gunwale height, and the amount of buoyancy required to float about six to eight people and a steam engine with fuel.
The third requirement will be a sailing ship that is heading for either the west coast of Petraea or the Sakian coast, maybe even close to where the town of Arbrau once stood before its population was wiped out by an awakened being.
>3d10, best of three 