>As per that invasion; we've got a ton of laser cannon batteries around the planet to prevent them from just flying in and nuking us, so they're probably gonna try and come in where there's the least amount of overlap in their coverage and hotdrop forces in. Luckily I know where those places are, so we can plan for it. Or, we can attempt to make the coverage of the laser batteries more complete. It might limit the number coming down, but they also might lead their assault with hotdrop ships armed with nukes and that could get messy.
>You weren't around for any of the hotdrops where you? Hmm If you know about the china-9 Drop, they're similar to those batteries but a bit better. They're designed to take out anything in the air, ships, missiles, whatever. And they're very good at it, but they're not perfect. Evasive maneuvers won't always save ships, but when you have lots of ships coming in a once, especially when they're using decoys, the laser's mechanical components can't keep up. The motors and systems used to adjust aim by a few feet from miles straight up, all while the target is falling and juking all over the place are, expectantly, rather complex and trade high speed, large degree movement for accuracy.
Put simply, we're gonna cut the numbers, but we're not gonna get rid of them completely.
>Orbital and near orbital level nukes we can handle. The force coming shouldn't have an outrageous number of them and even if we can't get them all, we'll prioritize the most dangerous ones. Really, this is just gonna be the standard defense force coming back. Either they're not gonna expect any resistance or, worst comes to worst, they'll expect a worker rebellion. They're not gonna have planet killer systems or anything; those haven't been used since the altered war anyways. The UWM rarely glasses a planet any more. Not since the Red moon Rebellion.
Part of the plan was definitely to abuse the fact that we know where they're gonna land. As per how you want to do it, thats up for debate. Mines or remote explosives are a definite thing.
The batteries are good enough to keep ships out of our atmosphere and a good distance from the planet, though not strong enough to keep them from orbiting us. As per their defenses, they've got some anti-soldier laser turret set up and I'm going to manufacture some robot defenders for when the time comes. They should be relatively well defended, but they'll never be perfectly defended, especially if the enemy makes them a priority. We might lose a few.
And yeah, remote nukes, like I said, would be a good idea. It's all about numbers though. They're gonna have a lot.
As per shooting down on us, they might. Their weapons are designed for vacuum combat, so they're not as powerful or quick. They normally don't need to be. The lasers will probably be able to handle the gauss cannons, or at least weaken them before impact. But if they start firing lasers we don't really have a defense. I doubt they can penetrate the surface and hit our internal workings, but they could sure damage the surface structures.
And I'm relatively sure They're not on to us because I'm monitoring the com chatter I'm privy to. Not all the invasions going on right now are as big as Hephaestus, and without me the UWM doesn't have a centralized governmental power. The reports that are coming in are being handled by dozens of unconnected groups, some of which don't have the best FTL communication capacities. Plus I'm sabotaging the signals where I can. So they're gonna catch on eventually, but We can keep them in the dark until the fleet shows up and starts broadcasting a big "OH HELL THE INMATES ARE RUNNING THE ASYLUM" message.
This is true, but thats where phase 2 of the plan comes in. The part where we forcibly board the orbiting ships and make them our own. I've got the guys in R&D working on some boarding craft that use the energy absorbing properties of that Sand from the Samsonite Abyss to shield themselves from laser fire, which is what their point defense systems use. It shouldn't be too hard once you guys get on board, they're gonna expend the majority of their forces trying to take the planet, after all.
Oh and those jump points, yeah, they'll probably try to blockade the important ones. But there are ways around that. You'll see.
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