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So instead of coming with Jackson to try and wrangle an Alpha and capture it intact, all eighteen of Blake’s ships, with their superior range, ability to quickly scan a system and get out unseen, and then report back instantaneously over vast distances, would split up and begin searching the area where Setsi said the “big brain” was most likely moved to.
This makes the plan much sketchier.
“Let’s look alive everyone!” Jackson said as he walked off the bridge. “Admiral Marcum wants to depart the DeLonges System in fifteen hours and there will be no excuses accepted for being late for the battle.” He worried that maybe he and Davis were laying it on a little thick, but he couldn’t
Why are the Vruhans wrong? On purpose, or are they not really as far ahead of us as we are being told? Why don’t we know the secret about the Colonel yet? We are kept in the dark about way too much that our protagonist knows. Lazy and annoying.
“It took some fast talking, but I was able to convince them that it was a small gamble that could lead to a huge payoff,” Blake said. “They’re still shaken up by the Phage directly attacking them and hitting their power generation facilities. I won’t swear to it, but I’m getting the hint that the Vruahn may have some sort of agreement with the Phage that keeps them from directly confronting each other.”
Perhaps the warning message meant the phage was going to renege on the agreement with the v guys and try to negotiate a similar deal with humans now and take out the v guys.
saved himself the court martial since the ship apparently didn’t need him. Colonel Blake’s Vruahn warship, as expected, performed flawlessly and Lieutenant
Why didn’t the vruhaughn give us more ships and weapons?
“We were hit with a kinetic weapon,” Jacksons said. “Any
It looks like an aimed weapon to me. It’s going to communicate.
