As Ahnk has already accused me of godmoding, let me explain a few things:

1) The SS has no Reigns. Never has. Wes doesn't particularly like them. Since Ahnk mentioned Reigns, and a 100+ ship force, and since the SS is inherently a smaller force (only 60 or so capital ships in this task force), I simply added that Kach had lent me part of the Borderland fleet, which we had talked about doing anyway.

So when I mention that Borderland Reigns intercept the large ships Ahnk sends against my fleet, that is simply in keeping both with his post and my understanding of the situation.

2) The ships that I mentioned being destroyed is 25% of the SS fleet currently here. You can assume that approximately 25% of whatever part of Kach's fleet was with me was destroyed as well. The fact that I lost some of those ships by them crashing into your ships is simply reasonable and mentioned by Simon.

Additionally, it highlights another of the dangers of jumping through hyperspace without safeties - you might overshoot the jump point. That's what those ships did - one luckily didn't hit anything, but was destroyed anyway, and the other hit one of the biggest targets in your fleet, a shieldship. Not unreasonable.

The fact that the sensors on the ISD-V Tyrant picked up the gravity fluxuation was standard. That Wes's officers, and Wes, noticed it, was simply being right place, right time. Even if that were not true, it is a reasonable assumption for Wes to make that the big ships are the ones causing problems. It's not like they're hidden. And notice he ignores the "little ship" Arbiters that are making the wormholes.

3) Gravity shielding. Wes sees the lasers disappear. His reasoning is that no ship has enough power to have ray shields that powerful and have good particle shields. So he fires missiles. He sees the missiles get pulled this way and that. The only things he knows that could do that are tractor beams and gravity. But tractor beams don't explain the laser disappearance. So he assumes (not me, he) gravity shielding.

4) Jamming. You specifically said that you were jamming by broadcasting numbers, and lots of them. Wes's techs, instead of trying to fight the jamming, worked with it and started injecting binary code (which is numbers) into the numbers you were using. SS fighters, since they contain at least one astromech each, can pick out those numbers from the jamming, since they are in a pattern and code the astromechs recognize as being an SS code/pattern, and they can then turn that code into orders for the fighters. It's not very efficient, it's slow, and it can be inaccurate, so only broad sweeping orders are used. The SS pilots are trained to be individualistic anyway, to fight as squadrons and as wings, and even as individuals, with a great deal of autonomy, so such orders give them all they need.

Yes, completely unreasonable. The shield ships are placed at the very rear of my fleet for a reason; because they are the most vulnerable and most important support vessel I have. My light cruisers and fighters are fast enough to redeploy to defend them if need be but most Imperial cruisers would lack the speed to maneuver to assault them.

You didn't assault them. You jumped into them.

So let me get this straight. By sheer coincidence, you manage to overjump your plotted trajectory and sail past an entire armada of my ships, conveniently slamming into my most valuable target, completely by accident?

Implausible.

For one thing, there's the fact that you would be pulled out of hyperspace well before you reached my fleet. But let's go with Omnae's ruling and say you can fly through my interdiction field. He said that, so fine. The chances of you miraculously missing every single ship, gravity generation, explosion, wormhole, and chaos of a space battle, to hit the prime target I keep deliberately as far back from the actual battle itself as possible, are absurd. Utterly absurd. Astronomically impossible. I refuse to accept that.

For one thing, every single ship I have is generating gravity. You destroying a ship and noticing the gravity field changing is plausible, and if you had, say, destroyed my interdictors and noticed you came up green for hyperspace on some of your ships before the field shifted, I could work with that. My issue is related to the above. You essentially went from "Hai 2 u guyz" having never seen us before to magically putting together all the pieces to lead yourself to total victory in the span of less than a post.

And you wonder why no one ever replied to TNO in battles before.

This was reasonable, and I took no issues with it. The "well of course the big ships are doing it!" is a huge stretch though and I DO take issue with that.

This is just impossible however.

I guess I'm still confused as to how exactly the ships are deployed. Are they towards Coruscant? Away from it? Are the shieldships in the center of your fleet? Because that is very relevant to this post. Coming out of hyperspace, one ship of mine hit one ship of yours. Since your shieldships are the second biggest target out there (other than your superweapons), I figured that would be the most likely ship to get hit.

Actually, from your R&D's, I thought the shieldships were the only ones that could generate gravity.

You specifically stated that without the shieldships, all your ships were vulnerable because they lacked shielding. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that is what I got from your R&Ds.

The "The big ships are doing it" is simply noting that Wes thinks that only large ships can carry gravity well projectors.

Huh? How is it impossible? We're basically using your method of jamming against you. That's why most ships, when they jam, use straight static - it's very hard to beat.

Send another message to all fighter wings. Have them target those smaller ships, the corvette analogs.

Other than the Parrow Lin vessels present they are our biggest ship, yes.

As was dolled over and over, the majority of the Imperial fleet is between my fleet and the planet. The shield ships are towards the back, so you'd need to fly more or less through my entire fleet in order to "accidentally" destroy one.



No.

For the most part, true; I do have a few ships which can generate shields of their own. The Shield Ship is the only ship capable of creating the gravity on the scale and energy level required to create a shield against weapons as such, but it is not the only vessel which generates gravity. Most of our ships manipulate gravity or modulate it in some way. But only the shield ship generates gravity for shielding.

The Immobilizer 418 is 600 meters; Loronar Strike Cruisers, which can be interdictors, are less than 500. I have several ship classes present over 800 meters.

This is using OOC knowledge IC. I call BS.

It is impossible.

What you're basically talking about is akin to putting a person in a room with several thousand speakers. On each of these speakers a different voice is reading a different, seemingly random, stream of numbers. You then come in with your speaker and have it play a series of numbers, and you expect your droids to be able to differentiate one set of numbers from another?

Our computer networks are comprised of millions of neural processing centers that span several galaxies; the ability to compute numerical sequences is unmatched. You, meanwhile, have some droids, and in addition to combat maneuvers, ship maintenance, systems analyses, and the various functions it is actually capable of doing, you want it to sift through an unending chain of numbers sent to it, at real time, ceaselessly since you arrived, and pick out patterns?

It's not possible and I call BS on that too.