USH'S STAR WARS GAME- CAMPAIGN II EPISODE IV (RENEGADES)- Battlefield

"Unfortunately that involves getting to the signal, which is untouchable unless we can get on that ship," Wentar points out. "Right now I feel Laresh may be our key up there, unless we can think of any other way to get up there."

Laresh is unfortunately secure. Other than being massively inside their lines, with no aerial insertion possible, reports from those who escaped say that the Union are evicting the populcae and totally mechanising it. Snesors are picking up any and all life signs; anything living is being thrown out or destroyed.

Meanwhile.

Indeed, they are aware of this,. In fact, the Selenian agent in Republican space has provided them with a detailed breakdown of Federation vessels and their military tactics.

(They gloss over the information they've acquired on Republican security)

Unfortunately, they can think of no way to destroy that ship. The intelligence gathered dfuring the fighting so far has only made the task seem more impossible.

There goes that idea.

I can't help but agree with them, I can't see anyway to take that ship out either, outside of the crazy idea of taking control of the BV-50 which seems more and more unlikely the more I think about it.

"I just ask that you keep that potential path to triumph in mind," Xeth says. "An opportunity to shut down the control signal may reveal itself."

"With all due respect to the Force," says the Dorgonath commander, "we need a strategy based on something more than faith. We're not going to sacrifice lives pointlessly on that basis."

"And in the mean time we intend to fight a..." Wentar pauses, choosing his words carefully. "Fight that could last years? There has to be something we've overlooked. Waiting for a sign will get us nowhere."

Edit: Slight note, that was a reply to Xeth not the Dorgonath commander.

Vera-Kin looks between Wentar and the Dorgonath Battlemaster, to see how Wentar's words are taken.

"What do we know about the behaviour of the Federation fleet?" asks the Air Marshall.

"Despite their descent within the shield, they have been playing a rather conservative game, to quote the Marshall," Xeth says. "They are holding back the majority of their vulture droids to protect the larger vessels, despite the fact that the modified Lucrehulk-class freighters that the Federation uses are nigh impenetrable. They are likely still worried about what happened at Naboo happening here."

"Our information [which you can confirm, Xeth] is that all those ships have been outfitted with a series of bulkheads that will prevent a stray torpedo from cayusing what happened at Nabbo again," says Minas. "Which makes the ships even more ungainly and fuel inefficient, but the Feds are willing to pay. The taxes only go to themselves anyway."

"With the vessels in high orbit and with none of the rest of the forces on this world capable of fielding starfightersm a strike is impractical through that fighter screen," says the Air Marshall. "But what happened when they descended through the shield?"

"Our ground weaponry proved elss effective than we hoped," says Minas. "Their shi is thick enough to resist it. We estimate they couldnl't hold against it forever, but they'd have plenty of warning to pull out before their shields failed."

"Which means they will not come beneath the shield bty default, but they'll descend when they want to give oribtal support," says Shan.

"There is not a great deal we can do to prevent them from ascending again once they hit the limits of their shields and armor," Xeth says. "And battering their shields will take forever and a day as it is."

"None of this really gets us anywhere," says the Battlemaster. "If our only hope is to win battle after battle, then that is what we must do. This is no time to be complai8nging about our lack of a star force."

"Indeed," says the Kaldak leader. "You Elerians agreed to our common defence policy; we agreed the defensive mechanism made a starforce unnecessary. And YOU Elerians are the ones that promised that that shield would make any fleet useless."

"Well this new droid they are deploying has changed the rules somewhat," says the Air Marshall, who is a small man, and withdraws somewhat.

Wentar steps forward. "This is no time to point fingers and blame anyone for what they should or should not have done. No one could have seen the BV-50 coming, not without seeing it first hand. We need to focus on what we can do, not what we could have done."

I am not going to let these rivalries between nations fracture the only hope here. Wentar thinks to himself.

"And what can he do?" says the Dorgonath. "They;ve not procided one man to the gathering army!"

"We have our own internal security considerations!" says the Air Marshall. "Who knows where the Feration may strike next?"

Vera-Kin regards what the other leaders have said and how the Air Marshall responds, looking at him with a new interest.

"This is not a time to be pointing fingers," Vera-Kin says. "The Droid Army that the Federation has deployed is something unlike any other foe that Alura has seen before. I believe Marshall Shan mentioned that these fighting forces and the orbital shield were raised against things like pirate raids, not fully-equipped invasion forces. The lack of a formidable starforce is simply something you never needed before, and you will have to make due with what you have now."

Vera-Kin will Scan the Air Marshall, but is not spending the point for it.

Like everyone else, he is fearful, which is understandable. He's also annoyed by the hostility of the others.

"Can we get this conversation abck onto useful topics?" says Shan. "We've already seen that the orbital advantage of the Federation is absolute. This brings us another security worry, because it means the Federation has a very obvious target."

"Starfighters are just as much part of the army as the ground troops. The Selen only have so many airspeeders and our own ships can't take many more battles." Wentar says.

Edit: This time I was talking to the Dorgonath!

Is Shan talking about the other sheild generators?

Vera-Kin regards the Air Marshall for a moment more before responding to Marshall Shan.

"What are you proposing that they are after, Marshall?" Vera-Kin asks, peering just above the edge of the table in order to see what is displayed.

What is the Air Marshall's name, by the way?

Dowder.

"The shield generators, of course," says Shan.

"Is the threat towards them concerning because of the freighters that slipped past the shield or the BV-50?"