"There are some impressive pilots among us," Xeth says, rubbing his chin as he taps on the display of the invasion and enlarges the image of the Federation fleet and the vulture droids.
"We need to take out the Droid Control Ship, here," Xeth says, "but this swarm of vulture droids is going to be a problem. I couldn't fight my way through that."
Xeth zooms out and returns to the display of the ground forces.
"Jedi are talented combatants and operatives, if you needed us to assist the ground forces or perform missions, that sort of thing. And we can, of course, ultimately stop the BV-50, when we get the chance."
Actually you understand they've filled the insides with bulkheads between the hangar bay and the power supply since then, whcih are kept sealed during battle.
That weakness was another spin-off of these being converted cargo vessels rather than purpose built warships, but the Feds have been learning as they go along.
An evacuation is being ordered of the populated areas around the invasion zone. "That will be chaos," says the Colonel. "We'll need whatever help we can get."
"We can assist in the evacuation," Xeth says, with a nod. "Send the coordinates of a key location they would be most helpful at to their airship and they will get right on it."
Speaking of knowing people is, there any way that our contacts or allies (for those of us that do not have R-series units as allies) can provide help or be present at this point? I know Wentar has some contacts and an Ally, as does Vera-Kin.
Xeth suggests that maybe strategic bombing runs on enemy units may be beneficial for slowing the invasion, but as the Marshall mentioned the Federation has air superiority. I don't know if a few notable Jedi pilots is enough to turn the tide there.
Xeth will ask if R3 can download the strategic information of the current situation so that he can monitor it from the air and coordinate from his starship, if that is possible. Maybe a bird's-eye view could help.
R£ is an Astromech droid, not a strategy computer. You need a dedicated unit like the command table the Selanians are using. he might be able to relay info to you from it, but he couldn't act in lieu of it..
The Feds certainly have air superiority over the landing site, but there and in space is where the majority of their fighters are concentrated. They can't cover everywhere at once in full strength.
We need to build some kind of EMP bomb... out of our transport, or even a larger ship... and crash it into their flanks doing the pulse... maybe overload the inertia dampers with negatvely charged particles... y'know what I'm getting at... or we need to do something that will do the same as GoldenEye sattalite...
Kiu- biggest logistical issue with stopping battle droids is... they don't need supplies. Just power, which is beamed into them, and their low power requirement makes this very efficient.
The heavier army units will need supplies of course but they'll be at the landing site, heavily protected from the air.
Unfortunately all attempts at electronic interference with Union droid armies has thus far failed (and to the best of my knowledge never works even during the Clone Wars, though we may see possible exceptions in the series). The point is, the people that would be good at such a thing- the Union- are the same people who have designed them to be immune to it. To extend the Goldeneye example- they are all built like the helicopter.
That said, dfirect fire ion guns would still work, jsut that ion guns are extremely large and unwiedly. Some of the heavy ground defences are ion weapons but the Feds are clearing them out.