Bloodstar: Star Corpsman: book One
“We didn’t learn the whole story until later, of course. Even with all of the optical scanners and AI integration, with viewalls and cerebral downloads and in-head displays and all the rest of the technologies that let humans link in to the flood of data moving around them, the ancient darkness we call the fog of war still guaranteed that we would see only a tiny fraction of what was going on. The advanced AIs managing the battle, Admiral Talbot and his command staff and tactical planners . . . ...maybe they knew what was going on.
But at the time, they didn’t bother telling us.
Admiral Talbot, it turned out, had pulled a sneaky, a tactical coup with which to open the battle.
First of all, he’d divided the fleet. All of the downloads on fleet tactics declare that you should never do such a thing, but he did it.
A diversionary force, designated Force Glacier, continued decelerating in-system, falling past the orbit of Niffelheim and heading directly toward Bloodworld and the Qesh fleet, continuing to broadcast demands to parlay across a range of EM frequencies known to be used by the enemy.MoreLess
But at the time, they didn’t bother telling us.
Admiral Talbot, it turned out, had pulled a sneaky, a tactical coup with which to open the battle.
First of all, he’d divided the fleet. All of the downloads on fleet tactics declare that you should never do such a thing, but he did it.
A diversionary force, designated Force Glacier, continued decelerating in-system, falling past the orbit of Niffelheim and heading directly toward Bloodworld and the Qesh fleet, continuing to broadcast demands to parlay across a range of EM frequencies known to be used by the enemy.MoreLess
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