Well put, it may just turn out that kilk-27 is rather new to the situation. My understanding of the umiak position is: Kilk-27 is in charge of the fleets in the system (or a previous group commander was), was able to intercept the first loroi fleet, knew he was completing his mission (stopping the loroi raider fleets as Kilk-27 states), engaged and destroyed the second squadron and then confronted the 51st Strike Group (lost an attack wave). Kilk-27 them might have believed he lost the opportunity to destroy another loroi fleet (the 51st, Still-Storms), saw they have stopped and assume defensive stance around an usual wreckage, sent in probing wave of some force the see what the loroi were guarding and/or force them off. Saw the good defence and what they were guarding and has decided to try sometime Non-SOP. What the full Umiak plan is still up in the air ( as you so rightly state).Nemo wrote:Thats true, and I don't think it likely yet find it wholly possible. Tempo noted the tactics the Umiak have used in their engagements indicated the Umiak anticipated farseer failure, but she also noted that other task groups arrived ahead of them and were destroyed. Tiky may have been traversing under the proplyd for some measure of cover and just stumbled over the fact the Loroi are being jammed when he surprised the first intercept group. Tiky gives the impression that he doesn't know what happened to the Bell, suggests third party if both he and the Loroi are being honest. Of course, this line of reasoning requires him to be both duplicitous and honest in the same... err... breath. There are just too many variables to pin down right now, but enough foreshadowing going on that when Arioch springs whatever hes got up his sleeve its not going to come out of left field somewhere.
I like the Duplicitous and honest comment, it reminds me of a quote from Winston Churchill that truth must be surrounded/protected by lies.
this is another reason why i like Arioch's umiak, their go against the "dumb bug idea" ( side note: Starship Troopers was one of the other to "smart bug" stories that I know of).
hehe, I keep thinking outsider sensor are like Star Trek type sensors, able to analysis a variety of different elements on the fly ( dumb dumb = me). but I could see why anything new might peak both sides. The whole situation is extremely odd for both sides.Nemo wrote: And just because the ship wasn't built of unobtanium doesn't mean whoever made it doesn't have unobtanium. You could say the bar is no lower than X, but thats all. And who knows, the Umiak may not even have that capacity right now. These are one off disposable warships they're riding around in, scientific analyses of any substantial kind may not be possible. Either way, its piqued his interest and thats what matters.