“Everything comes at a cost. We were fortune a few hours ago – striking a critical below against the enemy without expending a single missile of our own.
But I doubt that such an opportunity will repeat itself soon. Once the hauler impacted the moon and vaporized the southern purification colony, every single ship in the ice giant’s initiated a hard burn towards the ice moon. Aggressive scan patterns crept across the RAIN’s hull in a futile but unending squall. Their smaller corvettes are exceptionally fast – swinging back on acceleration vectors that would suffocate any human. I suspect that it is an unintended benefit of their aquatic biology. The Mizarians may be peculiar – and strangely naive, but they are not stupid. They know that this was not an accident.
We are currently faced with is a critical juncture: we must choose whether we withdraw or engage – and in the latter case, our level of commitment.”
- [UNSIGNED], EXECUTIVE AUDITOR, TRS NOVEMBER RAIN, AD. 2242, MAR 14, PERSONAL JOURNAL
>WITHDRAW. If we break for open space now, only the fastest and lightly armed corvettes will have any chance of detecting and intercepting us. However, the damage we have inflicted is not fatal: there are three water purification facility on MIZAR-VI-A. While losing a single facility will cause their supply lines to buckle, I doubt that it will stress them to their breaking point.>ATTACK – MSL-C (Conventional Fusion Warhead [8 Loaded/2 Storage]). Launching a one or two warheads before we leave will not delay us, but it will guarantee the loss of one (or two) of the remaining purification plants. But missiles are always a limited resource…>ATTACK – MSL-C [CHOOSE 1 or 2]. ATTACK – MSL-AM (AM-MIRV [4 Loaded]). A single one of these warheads will turn the moon from an pristine snowball into an irradiated wasteland. Both purification plants will be destroyed, with absolutely no hope of recovery. But AM-MIRV warheads are even more limited than our other missiles and may be better reserved for other targets.>ATTACK – CLOSE-IN. We could exploit the chaos of the attack and close-in to the facility to engage with conventional weapons. A few minutes of sustained laser fire could wreak terrible havoc on an exposed facility…but it would also probably risk an interception. >WRITE-IN. Proposals? Trajectories you want to draw? [Not much time has passed, so I just included a still image as the update instead of an animation]>>5468098[Vote noted, will probably write about it in an upcoming backdated update]
