TheMonster wrote:The Endicott system is a protectorate of the SEM, so there's an RMN and RMA presence. We don't have a lot of textev about it, but it's reasonable to assume that it has decent sensor array coverage to protect against the Peeps mounting such an operation. Granted, this was before Theisman shot Saint-Just and ended any possibility that a Havenite would work with those crazy bastards again, but it's unlikely that those arrays would have been redeployed elsewhere due to a changing threat assessment. (It's more likely that some sensor platforms that needed repair were instead cannibalized for parts to keep others going, and the remaining functional systems rearranged to maintain good coverage with their reduced numbers, but that wouldn't represent a massive draw-down.)cthia wrote:I am sure my thinking is flawed. My problem is the inability to bracket the fact that an untapped resource of warm Masadan bodies are just spinning on its axis in the Endicott system.
So the question is whether the MAlign really thinks they could get graser torps and/or stealthed missile pods into position and take out the RMN ships before demanding the surrender of the RMA forces holding Masada. Then could they work with the Faithful?
I'd wonder whether the MAlign had sleeper agents there, like the RA leaders, but Masada is not exactly the sort of place you'd think you could just slip a foreigner into.
Actually Monster, you've just put it all into perspective for me. I completely failed to take into account the RMA forces there. I always just assumed there were no forces, that the Masadans would demand their leaving. But the Masadans wouldn't have been in a position to demand anything would they? And they certainly couldn't be trusted and left to their own devices.
Now that you've arranged the info blocks in my head, perhaps I'll no longer experience that nagging feeling of an untapped resource of Masadan bodies just sitting there. They aren't just sitting there. They're being watched.
Nu uh, I don't think sleeper agents could be slipped into Masada either. I don't think a Grayson could be slipped into Masada! Unless, of course, some unanticipated nanotech conditioning is involved, which I get the feeling that nanotech just doesn't work like that.