Jonathan_S wrote:But you've also got the dispersed construction slips which would be too far away to reach - but must be somewhat outside the normal traffic areas to provide a defensive zeon around them. And even more importantly Weyland presumably isn't accessible to general shipping. Certainly during the first war Manticore had blocked the entire Manticore-B system to foreign flagged freighters and generally treated it, and Weyland, as much higher security zones. So I suspect you'd have trouble getting an exploding shipment to it. And because Blackbird was a pure shipyard, totally unconnected with servicing any planet it would be, quite possibly, even more shipping restrictive than Weyland.
So it looks liked you'd still have to break out the secret weapons to get your entire target list. That being the case there seems little reason to complicate the operation by trying to mix covert sabotage with overt attack - there's too much risk of the coordination going wrong or one half of the attack alerting your targets well enough to blunt or block the other half.
You can't get the dispersed yards. That's just how it is.
Weyland, well you have someone on Gryphon order a really big order of something. All the shipping to the planet still goes through there.
Maybe it works to get all three, maybe it doesn't. But if it does you haven't blown your cover. It's extremely likely you'll get at least one. And you can probably drop some clues that lead to New Paris, that might cause some fun.
And if it doesn't, well you still have the sharks. And if it kind-of works then maybe you'll get time to finish your real warships. The ones that can drop of of stealth in orbit over all the Manticore planets and tell the Queen to surrender or die.