Stillstorm's comm image is shown on pages 122, 127, 130 and 137. The couch where Alex was sitting is not in view.novius wrote:First, Kikitik-27 most likely had seen Alex on the Tempest's bridge during the banter between it (him?) and Stillstorm unless the camera angle was quite narrow and Alex remained out of view.
I'm not sure that's quite so obvious. The Loroi defended the wreckage against steep odds and destroyed it once the position became untenable; this only reveals that they were still looking for something, and/or considered the wreckage itself valuable. I don't think it necessarily reveals anything about what they had already found; if anything, it suggests that what they had already found was perhaps not all that valuable, or they might have run right away. We can infer that Kikitik-27 is very clever, but he doesn't have Sith script-reading powers; he may suspect that the Loroi have something useful, but he can't know for certain.novius wrote:But still, the Umiak have to assume that SG51 picked up something valuable from the wreck, and that there's something the Loroi wouldn't want to let fall into Umiak claws since they blasted the wreck into pieces as soon as they had to retreat.
How? Kikitik-27 is not in Leido; he's still in Sala 101. The Umiak crasher force came through Rallis. The two fleets followed different paths that do not cross (until Leido).novius wrote:While the Umiak offensive may have been already underway, there'd have been enough possibilities for Kikitik-27 to inform the rest of the approaching fleet that SG51 may be a priority target because of highly important cargo/intel on board. After all, he himself followed SG51 all the way from Naam to Leido.
The Loroi are not transmitting in the clear; their communications with other Union units are encrypted.novius wrote:Talon's rant over the comms might just have been a confirmation of what the Umiak assumed at that point.
Note that the torpedoes did not acquire the shuttle until shortly before impact, and Talon's response to the news was "Figures," rather than surprise. Umiak torpedoes are fired in large numbers and are deliberately heterogeneous in performance and behavior; if you waggle a drive plume in front of a large group of them, it's very likely that a few will lock on. There were probably something like 100 torpedoes in the salvo; those that we see striking the station were just the first to arrive.novius wrote:As for the torpedoes being fired, the gunship crew itself or some targeting algorithm may have decided that two torpedoes might be enough to finish off the shuttle, and neither considered the possibility of Talon's daredevil flying.
Or, she might look displeased because a) it looks like there's a decent chance that they're about to die, and/or b) it looks like there's a decent chance that Loroi are about to lose the war. But it can always be a conspiracy!novius wrote:So yes, Tempo might be in a right funk and being the Mizol she is could see conspiracies and treachery everywhere and give Talon (and maybe later Alex) the Third Degree, and lack of evidence would be just an incentive for her to dig further.