siege of seron reference list

Major Jim is sending out a message to the primary analysts and planners that a lot of their attack planning has now been expended/altered by the success of the factory attacks and the supply depot raids. He will urge them to find and fix the location of the Agamemnon, and the dimensional jamming structures as soon as possible, because these are the two primary operative limiting factors left on the planet that he's aware of.

Jim will further suggest that the analysts, both magic like Aedin and Seiya and technological like Crono and Gordon and the like study the previous engagement on Sion, where the Agamemnon managed a similarly effective disappearance trick. Perhaps the footage of that battle can give direct insight into this one.

As for jim himself, he's taking light duty, or somewhat pretending to, actually virtually living on the battlements, sleeping and eating often, but mostly just avoiding social contact with other members of the blaze except when battle-planning.

Nanoha currently has her Wide Area Search drones out in force, supplementing the magical shikigami deployed by Seiya and Hayate. If possible, she's working directly with them to use eachother's probes as relay devices, greatly extending the range of their detection network.

Lucy is doing much the same with a series of standard technology-based probes, all fitted with ECS Stealth. If possible, she'll attempt to bridge her probe data through Nanoha's as well, to further expand the network.

Additionally, Nanoha is going around to the other spellcasters to see what they have available for spells that explicitly cancel or see past transformation effects. If your caster has something like that, please reply to this thread.

Ziranathz is alternately spending her time walking the walls, checking the shield, and just going about her business, though she's helping wherever she can. She would have told Nanoha about her True Seeing spell if asked.

Andrea is a little lost as to what to do, though she's readily helping out both on defense and offense, such as the mission against the supply depots last night. She does her best to keep her allies fast and her enemies slow, and stay away from those Zerg. She's a little overwhelmed by all of this, but she's seen weirder.

Samus has mostly been on the quiet defensive, walking the walls long hours into the night.

Nanoha has sent an email to Crono, Yves, Jim, Ralf, Sie, and Sirus, intending to discuss with them the possibility of using the same technology that allowed people to make sims based on Ralf's memories of fighting Reven, to build a similar simulation of Iru and Asael.

Jim would respond which this is an EXCELLENT idea.
He'll also Andra to be his rocket launcher loader, since rocket launchers are traditionally two man teams and a cyborg like her can carry MANY missiles.

And note, this offer of rocket launcher training will be open to ANY bog personnel or marshalship personnel who want to supplement the wall guns or heavy weapons teams with some extra punch, since jim has already scattered rocket launchers around the inner bailey in caches. Given his injuries, this is something jim can actually spend some time on, since he's unable to properly fight without painkillers for ol' righty.

Crono is nearly finished on a device intended to help control the shielding during potential combat or during reform and reshaping time, working out the final kinks. Also been trying to assist Lucy with her ECS probes still whenever he has the free effort (which he usually tries to make whenever she does, busy schedules).

In the meantime, he's been following through on all updates as a result of their factory mission, which allowed the strike team to assault and destroy 32 supply depots. Largest priority of that has been updating the flowchart on analysis of the best use of gathered supplies. Also been trying to follow most loose ends as a result of their encounter, at which point he was happy to find others already diving into that (IE: Lucy already followed through on checking viable future uses of the tunneling system in the factories and found it to be restricted just to those locations, as well as rather beat up tunneling after their encounter on the tracks).

Also has been asked about his opinion on the next focus, and stated the obvious three major ones: Agamemnon, Void Leaders, Comm Jamming. Has posted public thoughts on it. Summed up as:

• Comm Stations: Least gainful, Marshalship's sure to know 'somethings up', while being most difficult (have to eliminate -all- stations).
  
• Void Leaders: Easiest to follow up on, know their location already.
  
• Agamemnon: Most beneficial, though have to FIND it, getting rid of it strengthens future air priority and also allows possible escape if the Blaze is repaired in time (and the need to abandon arises).

ALSO: Replied to Nanoha that given Sie and Sirus' experience, that'd be easily feasible, and perhaps even quick with a joint effort of the usual process. Critical of everything, points out in the mail that if an opportunity to move comes up before then, probably not worth waiting over, nor should they expect the same fight from the real, possibly now stronger foes.

Jim, after the planning session last night, is perfecting his plans for the armored auxiliary's feint, requesting the assistance from the freedom of action with two infantry APCs which will not actually engage in ground combat, but wait about a kilometer away, hull down, in case a ground extraction is needed for the assault team.

He's also planning a route of retreat through some ravines, since this has been described as a very rocky planet, and humanoid suits and a hovertank aren't much bothered by rough terrain, and will have a demo team secret some charges there, so if there is pursuit, they'll get bogged down in rough terrain, and promptly blown up once the AA is free.,

The kids of the Seron Helper Team are putting on a talent show, scheduled for 1200hrs DST, Sunday!

EDIT: Rescheduled, see above.

Neoko is taking a 'break' from the constant monitoring of the sensor console on the bridge to train for more in the sims. She's checking in with Eleste every few hours as they both prepare for Eleste's inevitable crash from her uppers, which will hit on Tuesday. She's still not talking too much.

Anneys is even more busy now that the outer wall has fallen. She was slightly wounded fleeing from helping out with a garden in the residential sector to running for her life to the inner wall. She's dealing with that while helping with the new load of wounded, as well as frantically trying to make sure the last few accessible gardens in the Grey Keep's courtyard are healthy and green.

Andra was pretty shaken up after the loss of the outer wall, but has been well comforted by Aaronsnuggles. They're both waiting to take over turret rotations when the turrets are finished being built.

Shishio has been reviewing the Iru/Asael fight in order to offer her own special insight into how to face them the next time around. When she's not mulling over that, she's been in her 'Heavy Metal' (the heavily armored and armed black form she obtained during the Twisted Metal tournament) Kamen Rider armor, acting as a mobile turret for the still being armed inner wall.

Sretzi is doing what she can to keep the shield orb going, but is pretty upset about the loss of Evan (even if he was a jerkface that made her all sad a lot ) and especially Zaea (...because of dragon dragon dragon dragon dragon.)

Jim is spending most of his time shoring up and reassuring the remaining freedom of action marshals, since there are only 20 out of the initial 75 left, and is try to get a firm idea of how many zerg and other void forces might still be out there. He's also checking and re-checking sentry and picket posts, making sure the fields of fire on each cover each other as best they can, since the loss of the outer wall means all the anti-tank rockets and weapons which were cached out there is gone.

He's worrying about the fact that with no turrets, and only small arms to bring to bear until more heavy weapons are found. He's asked Cless ot station the Vulcan permanently outside the blaze of glory in a tank-trench so they have one heavy weapon that can provide fire at all times.

Cless would be fine with that, as long as it's easy to mobilize the Vulcan if he needs to. He'd also be trying to jerryrig hard points along the inner wall for light machineguns, since I'm pretty sure we have a few in the armory. He'd also make sure there's boxes of LONG belts easily on hand.

Mk after having dumped his Beach Ball of Magical Energy into the shield to shore it up, has been working non stop to getting the Blaze's weaponry online and active.

Tux has been keeping up the cooking, though he's also made a bunch of comfort food snacks for the people who want them in light of all the downers. Poor Evan and Zaea and Neo and dragons and peoples

Shin, having completed the repairs to the inner wall in the industrial quarter last week, has started fixing up the actual buildings in that area, and also occasionally will walk along one of the walls to help patrol and keep any unwanted visitors out.

With communications jammed, Shin's been unable to send any e-mails to his girlfriend, Sina Akara, back on Gatekeeper. He knows she's worried about him, and he's equally worried about her. He's hoping that communications will be restored soon, because the second he gets the chance, he's gonna send her an e-mail telling her everything that's happened since he left. All he wants right now is to let her know he's still alive.

Eleste has passed the hell out after her stims wore off. She'll wake up sometime Wednesday.

Nyx is happy, but exhausted. She got to help!

Ka is being a mother hen over Talia.

Angelique is in your BoG, chatting up your folks and drinking your booze. For now anyway.

Jim is collecting his notes for the 2nd book in his ongoing series, and has finished the foreword already.

Crono is spending the day in clean up, finalizing a last round of update reports to Sie to assist in giving her a checklist, so to speak, of things that look like they should get the first priority before taking down his end of the update chart from the lab, though is then setting up a new interface for all her future helpers to use in the Keep itself along with her end as a parting gift, specifically lots of CoRe/Marshalship relief folks that have landed. From there, is stepping up to spend time with those very relief teams, acting as an informed relay after his familiarity with the Keep after all this.

From there will be idly typing up basic reports all day to hand over to the Captain for editing/forwarding/redoing, 'cause damn if that man ain't gonna be busy reporting in eventually, so dang if he doesn't feel the need to relieve that a little with some base outlines to follow, specifics given and presented on some events the Captain was taking up less of a role in, so he doesn't have to go digging for the details himself.