The War Room (Larissa's Glory)

[Jackson]

Achilles continued to alter the plan closer to perfection and then Sakura added a bit more advice. This time the suggestion was for a head-on rush to the most crucial system. The only possible reason the Alliance might be caught off by it is that it was almost too predictable. "I hate to divide our team even further but if the primary generator is heavily defended and such an obviously crucial system then we could at least send a feint against it. Attacking it head on might incur too many casualties but so long as they think we're headed for it then they'll rush to defend it. If we're lucky it will pull maybe half the crew in there and away from other systems. Then we just have to cut off their air." Jackson suggested without waiting for Achilles to first provide his own input.

The merc then added "Who are leading the other teams, sir?" The obvious choices were he and Sakura with Fred tagging along with whichever one went on a tour of the ship to take down all the systems. Then again Jackson had no idea of Sakura's skills beyond theorizing and apparently her knowledge of medicine. Achilles might also have some other plan that involved focusing his shooters rather than evenly distributing them to the teams.

[Achilles Jones]

"I hate to divide our team even further but if the primary generator is heavily defended and such an obviously crucial system then we could at least send a feint against it. Attacking it head on might incur too many casualties but so long as they think we're headed for it then they'll rush to defend it. If we're lucky it will pull maybe half the crew in there and away from other systems. Then we just have to cut off their air...

Who are leading the other teams, sir?"

"Well I believe we should stay away form the power core. Hitting it head on will attract too much attention to our location, impede the rest of the mission, AND if we disable it incorrectly the rest of the mission of capturing the vessel will have to be scuttled."

Achilles looked closer at the diagram of the Alliance ship.

"What MIGHT be better is if we can locate the main trunk line and the main power conduit and sever those. Then we'd only need some cable and welding to fix it.

However, this diagram does no show the needed information. So we could continue with the main plan, or we could spend a possible extra five minutes locating and disabling the power in that manner."

Achilles looked to Jackson.

"Major, I hadn't decided ho was leading the other teams yet. I need my best shooter with me. Bravo team will be led by my second best shooter. Charlie team will be lead by my third best shooter. Charlie team will include Fred and my third best shooter. All the rest of you with weapons ability will be on Bravo team.

The only question remains is who are the best shooters in order on the crew? We have exactly 34 minutes to decide this issue before we have to be underway and running over the operation."