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Deva Path
Posted by: DecepticonCobra
We are all going to get banned aren't we?
Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Posted by: grey101
Auntie Dot (COM): "Thankfully, help is imminent. Sixty percent of the UNSC fleet is en route to Reach from existing deployments. The first battle group should arrive within forty-eight hours."
Lieutenant Commander Catherine-B320: "That thing's crushing us, and we're waiting for backup? They'll be backing up a graveyard."
Commander Carter-A259: "All our nukes are either out-system or went down with the ships that carried them. You're preaching to the converted.
so 40 ships went down trying to take that ship out while the others are sitting on the other sit with their fingers up their asses.
Seriously the combined MAC fire would have been enough, not to mention nukes and missiles. And the support the remaining 60 ships should have been giving.
It makes no sense whatsoever not to go all out when you outnumber something with those odds and i am not saying you still shouldn't be smart about it.
Sending 40 ships and not backing them up is just poor tactics and the commanders should have read " the art of war". not to mention not backing up those 40 ships when they should have weakened the SC in some form at the least.
I don't know why you would sit and let your planet burn for two more days and then attack a ships (with over 100 ships) when you could have done that from the start.
We need to get the number for the UNSC fleet at that time
For Dot, I chalked it up as the fleet coming to reinforce the planet, not necessarily replace tons of ships.
For Kat, judging by her words, that SC is damn powerful. Perhaps the UNSC did try to send battle groups, but it, possibly with some Corvettes, beat them. A pathetic show of force I know, but the SC is in geosynchronous orbit. It has a position and it's defending it. The UNSC has to come around the planet to target it, giving the SC precious seconds to target and fire. That's just how I see it.
For Carter, the whole ALL statement seemed like hyperbole to me, but I get the point.
We need answers, for sure.
PS, signed up for the project, awaiting my assignment.
not good enough. they are going to "reinforce" the planet by sitting on the other side not attacking it?
actually being that close to the planet would mess with the plasma weapons (ignores corvette fire) this was brought up a few times in the books as with coles engagement and i believe around threshold. not to mention both ships would have to be within a range to fire as they could avoid each other (harder for the SC especially with this attack in mind).
I don't understand how when we are given direct statements people try to make them off as something else, yet when given hints or nods people take them has fact.