driftfleet | Captain's Log 11 - Calling All Captains

Who: Kirk + Fellow Captains and First Mates
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Yes; On the Marsiva
When: After this post

[ Broadcast ]
Given the recent events, I think it is prudent that all current captains and their first mates meet. It has been some time since we've had one, to my knowledge, and I believe it to be in our better interests to discuss the change in circumstances.

I'll secure a space that can fit us all, and let you know where and when soon.

[ Action ]
_{[ Kirk had secured a space that was both relatively private and large enough to fit all of the captains and first mates. At least being on the Marsiva meant that everything here was more or less neutral ground, even if it didn't feel like the safest place to meet per say. But putting this off until they got off it didn't feel right either, so best to make the most of it.

Hopefully all the captains would come, and their first mates, and they could try to make sense of the most recent events. Because someone had to, right? ]}

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Nami shifts in her chair, about to say something, before she suddenly stops and looks unsure, settling down in her seat again.

She has plenty to say about the Interceptors. She just doesn't think here is a good place for it. First meeting elsewhere, then.

"If we take a wait-and-see plan that's been going on in some form for almost three and a half years how long are we ready to wait?" Just posing it, but that reminder is making her reconsider. Maybe it was better to just try something even if they could theoretically already expect a counter.

"Maybe we're wrong about some of their abilities. Maybe we need to be testing our boundaries to find their weaknesses even if there could be consequences."

"That's not a bad plan," Kirk conceded. "But if we're going to do that, we should build up. If we go to hard, to fast, those consequences could be pretty damn severe. And we should check in with each other when we're going to 'test' something that might come with a bigger risk. The last thing we need is the Fleet taken off guard - or better yet we need them ready in case what we do leads to an unexpected opening."

"Check in with each other to what degree? We can't be relying on unanimous agreement to do anything, and we don't have much of a system of command here." Which is certainly a problem.

Sigh.

"This might all be better ironed out somewhere that's not Atroma Central," Nami says quietly.

"I agree with Nami on this one." Personally he would like this kind of talk off of all the ships.

Just nodding her agreement to that. She doesn't think they have much chance hiding their intentions, but they need to try their best, right?

"Why?" Mallory asks. "Why does it matter if they know that we're trying to come up with a strategy against them? We don't have one yet, regardless of where we discuss it." She would assume they can listen in no matter where they are, which means coming up with a better strategy, one that can survive that, or working entirely alone. "I'm suggesting that we talk to each other less."

Are you serious right now? Vash takes a moment and then speaks calmly in a tone he's really hopeful does not come out as condescending. His intention is to be helpful.

"Well, for most strategies to work past the idea of: we want to come up with a strategy! It's important for the other side to not know what you're planning. As if the other side knows what you're planning and they have more resources, powers, control, and abilities? Then they can stop you. Easily. Before you can even put a plan into action usually."

Vash is a bit flabbergasted. He can't tell if she was being serious about why it was a terrible idea to discuss plans where the group you're fighting against can hear.

"For example, have you ever played poker before? Or-or any competitive card game before? If you have, would you really want to play where you show the other players what cards you have? Of course not! They would instantly know if you have good cards and would wait until you don't before they try to steal all your money and you lose. This is the same thing except instead of playing for fun or money we're playing with people's lives so that makes it even more important that we're careful."

Vash is starting to worry that Mallory may end up getting people killed. Of course there is a chance that recklessness may lead to enough of a surprise to help them, but at what cost will that come?

"The only thing this group may have is numbers so if we talk to each other less and each go around doing our own things then we'll be disorganized and may lose the only advantage we may have."

Signy doesn't roll her eyes, but it's a near thing. In general she's not comfortable with these people, and she doesn't think like them. That doesn't need to be a disadvantage. This meeting here hasn't shown any sign of helping, though, and she doesn't think more meetings -- even if they can somehow speak freely at them, which she doubts will ever be safe -- are the answer.

"You're proposing that we start a game of bridge, partner up and figure out how to engage in planning specifics without anyone catching on to what we're talking about. Poker's the better option.

"The only way we have a chance is if we make this less organized and more guerrilla in nature." And she fully intends to have a chance with it. They don't have the numbers on the Atroma, that much seems pretty obvious. "Coordinating all of us into some sort of combined attack doesn't make sense, regardless of the specific strategy you think you can come up with at some golden point in the future."

As much as Kirk didn't want to agree with Signy, she did have a choice. Guerrilla warfare could be effective, but in this situation? He wasn't sure. It could and it could not. He would be agreeable to the tactic if he knew everyone here had space battle experience like he and Signy did, but that just wasn't so. Many only knew how to do what they did on the ships because of the implants - or so he was given the impression of, considering many people here had never been on a space ship before.

But he did know that them falling into an all out battle between themselves would only serve Atroma's purposes, not their own.

He stood sharply from his chair to get everyone's attention, glancing around the table.

"I think we're all agreeing we won't get much more done today in this discussion," he said. "For now, I suggest we return to our crews and think about their specific strengths, and when we meet again we can more fully understand what we are working with. Preferably, yes, when we make planetfall. If you find any other information, I urge you to share it as safely and securely as you can."

He glanced around the group.

"Agreed and adjourned?"

Is it just her or did it get tense in here?

She can appreciate Signy's spirit, but Kitty comes from a background of teamwork and she believes in the power of that. She also worries that this mission is more important than the people the mission is for to Signy. But she did shift this meeting ultimately. It feels like they are on the verge of doing more than waiting even though the next plan is literally waiting. At least there's a clock on it unless the Atroma decide not to let them go to planets anymore to prevent it.

She is about to speak up when Kirk takes over. Ending things here is probably the best route anyway.

"Agreed. See you all around. Maybe in our dreams."

Signy doesn't look pleased, and while part of that is her usual state, there's certainly an element that came from this conversation, the fact that it felt completely useless to her. But there's no way to force others into seeing things her way, and it's clear she doesn't have the province to do so even if she could.

"Agreed," she says, and stands herself. It's clear to her this whole exercise has been a waste of time.

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