Re: [GZG] Still "colinies" :)

Or are we talking "last minute" pre strike Intel.  Intel accumulated
while 
the team is in transit.  I know I would want eyes on the target before 
making a strike.

Michael Brown
mwsaber6@msn

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From: "Oerjan Ariander" <orjan.ariander1@comhem.se>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:47 PM
To: <gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [GZG] Still "colinies" :)

> John Atkinson wrote:
>
>> >Obviously, the locals would have larger stores
>>
>>Not obviously--prestrike intelligence should identify major locations
>>of ammunition storage and other militarily significant stockpiles.
>
> Hm. We're talking about interstellar pre-strike intelligence with com
> delays measured in days or weeks here, not intelligence about a place
on
> the same planet you start from where you already had a bunch of recon
sats
> in place months or years before the strike.
>
> How do you get that interstellar up-to-date pre-strike intelligence?
> Sending scoutships in advance or keeping the invasion force in orbit
for
> some time while trying to locate the defenders' stockpiles etc. sounds

> like
> a good way to allow the defenders to get their act together before you
go
> in. Sending an undercover SF team to locate those stockpiles in
advance of
> the invasion fleet... well, there's that "small unsupported SF team on
a
> hostile planet" scenario again.
>
> Regards,
>
> Oerjan
> orjan.ariander1@comhem.se
>
> "Life is like a sewer.
>  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
> -Hen3ry
>
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