>>6104572oh god oh fuck that is NOT something we are prepared for.
Okay so, my answers in order of the order they are done in (if applicable)
>You have about a month, it might be a rush job, but you could maybe get another squadron of Stings out>Prioritize the production of terrestrial munitions at the expense of your space forces.>Contact Uriah, maybe he will be willing to lend his geneanimals for the war effort?>Contact Uriah, maybe he will be willing to house your non-combatants ? It would be much safer than here.THEN
>Recall Ashwin from Uriah. His expertise might be needed here sooner or later.>You need to man both, even if it means that neither your spacestation, nor your trenches will be manned in the optimal numbers.>You are the most skilled in it and you will be able to do things other than being a figure head. As such, you will take to the terrestrial front.I genuinely don't believe that we can survive much less win the current space battle if it is a slugging match between our space station and fighters vs their heavy cruiser & retinue. We need to be tactical.
The best and most potentially beneficial outcome would be if our fighters disabled the engines of all of the warships and we got to capture the cargo vessels. But that would require some insane luck.
The most achievable outcome would be to ambush their cargo ships with our fighters and thus strand them in the system. This would make them need us to survive. Or at least what our colony has. If we are able to cripple some of the attack ships that would be great but I don't see a likely scenario where we can effectively "win" in space. Only one where we kill their return route and cripple then as much as possible.
So after we've defeated as many as we could in space then we can claim that they won't live without our services. Like the refit station, food and basically anything and everything. In which case if they aren't suicidal they would probably try to take over our government first and only if they lost that would they work with us. At least that is the feeling I have gotten from re-reading Fergus's story.
