Yawata strike

which book is the description of the strike in?

Mission of Honor

gabmw wrote:which book is the description of the strike in?

Probably worth noting is that most of us (and most of the text in the books) refers to the operation that produced the Yawata Strike by the code name its Mesan Alignment planners used (Oyster Bay). The Yawata Strike is what Manticore started calling it afterward.

drothgery wrote:

gabmw wrote:which book is the description of the strike in?

Probably worth noting is that most of us (and most of the text in the books) refers to the operation that produced the Yawata Strike by the code name its Mesan Alignment planners used (Oyster Bay). The Yawata Strike is what Manticore started calling it afterward.

Or "The Day of Sorrows" by the Treecats.

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CLA wrote:Can you imagine how the 'cats will react when they find out who was responsible?

TreeCat volunteers forming a special forces unit and being dropped onto the enemy homeworld....

MY GOD, the carnage that would ensue would be legendary!

Problem is, Henke already captured that home world. (Mesa), but yeah, the treecats revenge would not be pretty. Problem was it would also result in a lot more dead 'cats than if the RMN Marines went in at the same time.

SharkHunter wrote:

CLA wrote:Can you imagine how the 'cats will react when they find out who was responsible?

TreeCat volunteers forming a special forces unit and being dropped onto the enemy homeworld....

MY GOD, the carnage that would ensue would be legendary!

Problem is, Henke already captured that home world. (Mesa), but yeah, the treecats revenge would not be pretty. Problem was it would also result in a lot more dead 'cats than if the RMN Marines went in at the same time.

Which book was THAT in? There are so many books that tie into the main series that I've literally gotten lost....

CLA wrote:

SharkHunter wrote:Problem is, Henke already captured that home world. (Mesa), but yeah, the treecats revenge would not be pretty. Problem was it would also result in a lot more dead 'cats than if the RMN Marines went in at the same time.

Which book was THAT in? There are so many books that tie into the main series that I've literally gotten lost....

It's actually a bit of an inference from Shadow of Freedom and Cauldron of Ghosts.

From the end of SoF we know Mike decided to take a not insignificant part of her 10th fleet directly to Mesa, without waiting for orders.

Then at the end of CoG an unidentified force shows up in the Mesan system - it shows fewer ships that it appears Mike was taking; but that doesn't rule out 10th fleet. (Some could be detached, or in stealth, or waiting in hyper to pounce on any attempted escapes). We know the arrival basically caused the Mesan government to surrender, but we're never actually told/shown which fleet.


It's pretty likely it's Mike and 10th fleet, but it could be the Andermandi, or less likely even some surprise 3rd player.

Jonathan_S" quote="CLA wrote:

SharkHunter wrote:Problem is, Henke already captured that home world. (Mesa), but yeah, the treecats revenge would not be pretty. Problem was it would also result in a lot more dead 'cats than if the RMN Marines went in at the same time.

Which book was THAT in? There are so many books that tie into the main series that I've literally gotten lost....

It's actually a bit of an inference from Shadow of Freedom and Cauldron of Ghosts.

From the end of SoF we know Mike decided to take a not insignificant part of her 10th fleet directly to Mesa, without waiting for orders.

Then at the end of CoG an unidentified force shows up in the Mesan system - it shows fewer ships that it appears Mike was taking; but that doesn't rule out 10th fleet. (Some could be detached, or in stealth, or waiting in hyper to pounce on any attempted escapes). We know the arrival basically caused the Mesan government to surrender, but we're never actually told/shown which fleet.


It's pretty likely it's Mike and 10th fleet, but it could be the Andermandi, or less likely even some surprise 3rd player.[/quote]

Or hitting other targets in the system like the junction or are waiting in hyper at the H-limit to pick off escaping ships.

SharkHunter wrote:Problem is, Henke already captured that home world. (Mesa), but yeah, the treecats revenge would not be pretty. Problem was it would also result in a lot more dead 'cats than if the RMN Marines went in at the same time.

CLA wrote:
Which book was THAT in? There are so many books that tie into the main series that I've literally gotten lost....

Jonathan_S wrote:It's actually a bit of an inference from Shadow of Freedom and Cauldron of Ghosts.

From the end of SoF we know Mike decided to take a not insignificant part of her 10th fleet directly to Mesa, without waiting for orders.

Then at the end of CoG an unidentified force shows up in the Mesan system - it shows fewer ships that it appears Mike was taking; but that doesn't rule out 10th fleet. (Some could be detached, or in stealth, or waiting in hyper to pounce on any attempted escapes). We know the arrival basically caused the Mesan government to surrender, but we're never actually told/shown which fleet.


It's pretty likely it's Mike and 10th fleet, but it could be the Andermandi, or less likely even some surprise 3rd player.

Actually np, she hasn't. She has captured Mesa and none of the people left on Mesa know anything about OB. All of them were evacuated by Houdini or were never on Mesa. Their home planet is Darius, and the GA doesn't know where it is. They are going to assume, once they have taken the Mesa infrastructure apart, that such a planet exists, and they are going to be looking strenuously for it, but she (or whoever it was at the end of CoG) hasn't captured the MAlign home planet.