Looking forward to it.
The British Division should probably not be Royal Army Division as it is the Royal Air Force, Royal Navy but the British Army not the Royal Army, Possibly the Guards Division which is made of the various Guards Cavalry and Infantry Regiments and is a solid name, the Guards Armoured Division was a notable force in WW2, othewise 7th Armoured or 51st Highland Divisions are also fairly renowned division level formations for the British army
3rd (UK) Mechanised Division (UK) is a bit tautological :P
Looking forward to this!
The SGC has gone very chunky with it's ships which is always nice to see. Might this mean more focus on individual ships, as there are fewer of them?
I also wonder which way they will go when the mixed armament proves ineffective, because 16 sz6 launchers seems like a recipe for firing a lot of missiles to very little effect (at least under current rules).
I thought I would have weeks to digest the previous chapter, yet here we are again. We are indeed in the territory of behaviour unbecoming an AAR author.
Putting such thoughts to one side things are proceeding at an excellent pace, I for one am delighted to have skipped the "what are jump points, are their aliens, etc" portion that many AARs feel the need to include. Some may argue that two hostile aliens on the doorstep is excessive, but who am I to argue with a "lore-accurate AAR"?
It is a nice touch that Abydos is the first inhabited system, I feel I already know what the Danakreg home planet should be like - sand, souks, people being hit with sticks while looking at the distant Pyramids with a single tear in their eye, that sort of thing. They probably won't, but that is the image I have. Also after destroying the Dionysus I now have them pegged as miserable puritans.
I'd say something about the Chulak but there is little to say at present, naturally one has suspicions though and if correct I do look forward to how they are incorporated into this lore-accurate work.
My planned next AAR project will skip not only the "what are...?" lore but the entire start of the game and start at a suitably exciting point in the middleA prospect to excite the imagination and tempt the senses.
And on that terribly disappointing note, it is time to turn once more to our intrepid heroes and discover how it might be possible to fight a war without the admiralty descending into perpetual arguments, fisticuffs, and ill-advised design studies...Badly. I assume such a war would be fought incredibly badly due to the inferior quality of such an admiralty. Next you'll be saying they don't even break up meetings with light refreshment breaks. :shudder:
On Earth itself, two shipyards totaling six 1,000-ton slipways, presently tooled to construct survey craft, were ordered to retool to produce additional F-302 interceptors, the only spacecraft available to the SGC which could match or exceed the Danakreg fleet speed.I can see the logic (panic) but being the only ship that can get close to the enemy there will be pressure for lots of "Get in close and shot it with your nose rail guns" while being neither fast nor armoured. This does not bode well for the long term life expectancy of future F-302 pilots.
As the hostile aliens in Chulak had shown no inclination towards aggression, nor a sufficient presence to seriously threaten the Sol system, they would have to be left alone for the foreseeable future.For entirely lore-accurate reasons I feel this gamble will pay off.
The marginal results were disappointing at the moment, but indicated that a larger volley from multiple battlecruisers would be able to overwhelm the Danakreg ships, which was a promising finding.This plan could get very expensive in gallcite and fuel, very quickly.
Sensor readings indicated that the Danakreg ships used heavy laser weapons, which would comfortably outrange the railguns on the battlecruisers and would inflict heavy losses on the F-302s as they tried to close to combat range.The news just gets better and better. Still there is a solution to this;
the SGC still held out slim hopes for a diplomatic resolution and killing diplomats would not be conducive to such a goal. Therefore, the diplomatic ship was allowed to return to AbydosCowards.
but in exchange the 1st would be at the front of the line to return to Earth for rotation and overhaul, provided that the Danakreg did not do anything terribly stupid in the next few days, weeks, or months.Let us hope the enemy co-operates.
OOC Notes: The war has started, and where proper AAR etiquette demands a majestic pace where every battle takes up at least one update on its own, here we have compressed an incredible nine days of dispersed operations into a few paragraphs. Truly this AAR is an affront to good sense and an abomination to most religions to boot, but then again one could argue that this is only the most lore-accurate approach to take?I approve of this heretical approach to battle reporting, partly because it is lore accurate, partly because it means we make much faster progress but mostly because good sense is often over-rated and deserves to be affronted.
Badly. I assume such a war would be fought incredibly badly due to the inferior quality of such an admiralty. Next you'll be saying they don't even break up meetings with light refreshment breaks. :shudder:
I can see the logic (panic) but being the only ship that can get close to the enemy there will be pressure for lots of "Get in close and shot it with your nose rail guns" while being neither fast nor armoured. This does not bode well for the long term life expectancy of future F-302 pilots.
For entirely lore-accurate reasons I feel this gamble will pay off.
This plan could get very expensive in gallcite and fuel, very quickly.
The news just gets better and better. Still there is a solution to this;
"Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of F-302s at them until they ran out of missiles and shut down." SGC Admiral Z. Brannigan discussing strategy.
The heroic (ish) death of the Odysseus could prompt a major rethink on survey ship design and doctrine. That was a large loss of crew and will be expensive to replace, yet by definition exploration and survey ships will always be running such risks.
Let us hope the enemy co-operates.
I approve of this heretical approach to battle reporting, partly because it is lore accurate, partly because it means we make much faster progress but mostly because good sense is often over-rated and deserves to be affronted.
From one recent PhD graduate to another, allow me to say 'Lovely Update Herr Doktor'
Mine got confirmed/awarded literally last Friday, 9th of June!
“Comms, get Colonel Overly on the horn.”So many horns. (https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/Images/poncho-horns-header_tcm25-577240.jpg?ezimgfmt=ng%3Awebp%2Fngcb1%2Frs%3Adevice%2Frscb1-1)
“Comms, this is Overly. Get General Marchand on the horn.”
get the President on the horn.”
, there was some hope that the Danakreg had run out of scouts and would give up trying to reconnoiter the jump point.The former does not imply the latter, but you can see why SCG might hope it did. However this should not distract from their successful efforts of shooting fish in barrels while armed only with a massive tonnage and tactical advantage. ;)
In the meantime, let us appreciate this crafty writer’s technique which is surely not a shoddy excuse to stretch material across extra chapters purely to meet some imaginary word count requirement, obviously any such accusation would be blatantly untrue.Absolutely, the word count requirement is far from imaginary. (https://i.imgur.com/Z3wSg01.gif)
Some might consider it horrifying that we have come so far, so quickly, but others of greater estimability and erudition will celebrate this moment as we all should.I am indeed celebrating it, as is right, proper and fully lore-accuate.