Yawata strike

SWM wrote:

SharkHunter wrote:It's not the MSDF though that would have been a fun pretzel. General Drescher is negotiating a cease fire towards Palane & Cachat to save her own skin from who? the Andermani? who might not even really know Thandi exists, except by "data chip"? hmmmm... Henke? who DOES know Thandi by name because of Michael Oversteegen and Helen Zilwicki's current assignment in her fleet?

I'm curious, what makes you think that whoever entered the system knows Thandi Palane by name? Or that Drescher is negotiating in order to save her own skin, as opposed to orders from her superiors?

I think she's quite likely acting without orders from her superiors, just because (1) she can see the way the wind is blowing and doesn't want to inflict or suffer more pointless death, and (2) her superiors at that point are probably a pile of jibbering confusion and incapable of providing orders.

Sure, saving her own skin may come into it, but she's got enough principle on the one hand and plenty enough other reason that it needn't be front and center.

JeffEngel wrote:

SWM wrote:I'm curious, what makes you think that whoever entered the system knows Thandi Palane by name? Or that Drescher is negotiating in order to save her own skin, as opposed to orders from her superiors?

I think she's quite likely acting without orders from her superiors, just because (1) she can see the way the wind is blowing and doesn't want to inflict or suffer more pointless death, and (2) her superiors at that point are probably a pile of jibbering confusion and incapable of providing orders.

Sure, saving her own skin may come into it, but she's got enough principle on the one hand and plenty enough other reason that it needn't be front and center.

It's not her own skin -- it's the two thousand of her troops she'd expected to lose in the attack. For a cause which is now irrelevant. Dealing with seccie uprisings is now someone else's problem.

Since her superiors have surrendered the system, or are about to, I'm not even sure their orders would matter. It's likely that the occupying power will take a dim view of continuing military operations on the planet, so better to stop now than to start and then be told to pull out (or see what it's like to be on the receiving end of KEWs).

If I get back to the Yawata strike, I think the whole purpose of that story line was to get the treecats more involved in the story. To do that there had to be a pretense under which the cats would suddenly want to get more involved in things going on by finally deciding to leave their planet in meaningful numbers to help out in critical areas of need.

StealthSeeker wrote:If I get back to the Yawata strike, I think the whole purpose of that story line was to get the treecats more involved in the story. To do that there had to be a pretense under which the cats would suddenly want to get more involved in things going on by finally deciding to leave their planet in meaningful numbers to help out in critical areas of need.

It would help if David could do math...

kzt wrote:

StealthSeeker wrote:If I get back to the Yawata strike, I think the whole purpose of that story line was to get the treecats more involved in the story. To do that there had to be a pretense under which the cats would suddenly want to get more involved in things going on by finally deciding to leave their planet in meaningful numbers to help out in critical areas of need.

It would help if David could do math...

I apparently do not have enough background in the nuances of this forum, as I have no understanding to the meaning of your reply.

Maybe you are referring to my using the term “meaningful numbers.” I'm sure there isn't enough of them to flood the universe with the presence. However, a dozen or so of them involved in key areas could be extremely helpful.

The Yawata strike provides the reasoning for why the treecats wish to venture out among the stars and perhaps be a part of the investigations on Mesa...

Look at David's number for the cat casualties and then the percentage he gave. Hint, the humans killed on the ground are a bigger percentage of the total human inhabitants than the cats killed were of the total population.