Disclaimer: Still nothing.
I honestly never expected this story to be this popular. Up for barely a week, and it has 2.5 k hits, 20 reviews, and 65 people have marked it as one of their favorites. And we're not not even out of the prologue. All I can say is , HOLY CRAP and thank you.
Now, In order to reward you for your support, I bring you this brief snippet to tide you over until the main chapter is complete. I already have a mostly complete future chapter (and I mean FAR future, like, Mannan far), and a rough draft for the post-Taris interlude and one of the chapters for Dantooine, so rest assured I am working on it, and as i will have a lot of free time this following week (SPRING BREAK!), expect a few updates.
Please R&R, with examples of what you liked (or Didn't) so I may bring you more of what you love. Once again, Thank you.
Prologue: Battle Plan
Most officers like to think of things in terms of ratios, or shogi, or chess, or dejarik. If obtaining an advantage is worth more than it costs, they will obtain it, if not, they will not. If they have more forces, they are winning. If the forces they do have have more experience, training, or better equipment, a single unit is worth more to that score. Specific units do specific things.
Knights move in right angles, bishops in diagonals, and pawns are cannon fodder. Knights and rooks are worth more than pawns, etc.
These officers would take one look at the Endar Spire right now, surrounded by more warships, more guns, being boarded, and taken completely by surprise, and invariably sum up its chances with one word. FUCKED. No serious (Sith) casualties predicted.
I, the former Grand Admiral of the Republic Navy, an later the Sith, suck at shogi, and chess, and dejarik.
Because Life is not chess, or shogi, or dejarik. Neither is war. Both sides do not start out equal, and pieces on the board do not just stand idly by while they are taken.
It took Asuma's death for Shikamaru to get that. It is something I have always understood.
Humans do not fall under cookie cutter specs. We do not move in only right angles, or diagonals. We do not automatically lose when our king is lost. We move wherever the hell we want, and kick and fight back when either our king or ourselves are taken. There are very few rules, and those rules that do exist can be horribly abused. If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'. The difference between rookies, officers, and vets, is that rookies haven't realized this yet. Most Officers don't try to learn this, because they have fancy colleges teaching them strategy, and think that that is all that's necessary. Vets have figured this out, and have a pretty good idea of what they get away with.
That is what I'm good at.
And as such, i disagree. The Endar spire is fucked, no two ways about it, but with the right amount of batshit insanity, we can make the attacking forces bleed. And they will bleed, as I have that in spades.
For I have a cunning plan, milord, that cannot fail.
You may begin running in terror now.