Demarquis wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 3:17 am1) Are you suggesting that the Umiak have no weaknesses that an Ender character could exploit?
2) Why do you think that the Umiak are "steamrolling" the Loroi outside of the frontier area? In Enders Game, humanity was down to our home system, the aliens had many systems, and an invasion was considered immanent. That actually seems more challenging than the situation that currently confronts our protagonists.
I really have no need to keep going back and forth with this... so I will leave you with pertinent questions that you do not need to answer... but the answers will speak for themselves.
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1. Just how likely are the Loroi to give Ender Wiggen, an alien boy outsider to them, command of ANY vessel in the fleet?
2. In the unlikely scenario they DO give Ender his own command... what do you think it would be? A single vessel or a strike group?
3. Let's take this farfetched narrative to where it would likely go first. Let's assume the Loroi give Ender command of a single Loroi warship. If so he will be assigned to follow orders from the lead command vessel... unless lead vessel and all other vessels are too damaged or destroyed outright, that's the ONLY way he will be able to take command of a strike group that the Loroi would initially even accept.
It would be a crippled strike group, what remains of it, so Ender's offense options would be less favorable than oh I dunno..... running for his life back to safe space.
4. Have you read the full Outsider comic so far? Have you seen Umiak vessels in battle? Have you seen their weapon specific ranges and accelerations...not to mention that of their spaceships?
5. Did you know Loroi commanders who have survived the decades long war fighting the whole way through are rare? Did you know at one point the Loroi emperor and her flagship were blown up?
