A Reckoning

[Motsognir]

Great to see you back at this alkemita. There is nothing wrong with a shorter format, especially if it helps you.

[mikecj]

Nice.  I liked both parts of that.  And yes, interesting times for other people are fun  >:D

[cawest]

i wounder if Clan Wolf can smuggle some support to the WD.  a carrack with a Hughes would be a nice forward base for Samson.  maybe cover it as a "forwards support base" for the clan invasion.  it is also small enough to not be notice by most of the other clans now that they are dealing with internal issues. 

[alkemita]

i wounder if Clan Wolf can smuggle some support to the WD.  a carrack with a Hughes would be a nice forward base for Samson.  maybe cover it as a "forwards support base" for the clan invasion.  it is also small enough to not be notice by most of the other clans now that they are dealing with internal issues.

That would likely be way too little for SAMSON. The whole point of sending the DB back to the Clan Homeworlds was to inject a dose of cold, hard reality to counteract Crusader fantasies about what an invasion of the Inner Sphere would be like, and require. Even reducing the mission objective to "Kill ComStar" will still require the lion's share of the combined Toumans of the Clans - not to mention, as happened in canon, most of their merchant fleet to act as the logistics train.

[misterpants]

I'm curious what Focht's game is with assiging Blessing to command a conventional division, given her previous skill set was commanding black ops...

[Daryk]

That can have all kinds of interesting results...  8)

[misterpants]

I was thinking more of Blessing being thrown in the deep end of the pool, unless Blake's Wrath was also a division-sized unit.

[alkemita]

I was thinking more of Blessing being thrown in the deep end of the pool, unless Blake's Wrath was also a division-sized unit.

I'm curious what Focht's game is with assiging Blessing to command a conventional division, given her previous skill set was commanding black ops...

In this story, Blake's Wrath is a Division(-) sized unit, although it never operates that way.

Focht's "Game" has to do with developments earlier in the story, where we saw that Laurent was a friend and ally of Charles Seneca, who has been deposed as head of ROM.

Political maneuvers are in play.

And as the former commander of Blake's Wrath, Laurent has certain experiences that the vast majority of the ComGuards do not, at this point in time...