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Start Log
----------Anya stubbed out her cigarette, took a fresh one from the pack and lit it. She inhaled deeply allowing the nicotine deep into her lungs. She reviewed her report into the appearance of the new type of Romulan Fighter. It was an assault fighter developed to take out capital ships and heavy ground installations unlike the Scorpion Class which was an interceptor best suited to take out other fighters. The thoughts going round the other senior staff had voiced thoughts that the Romulans may have stolen ideas or technology from the Erassian Alliance who had the distinct edge on fighter development if not much else.
Anya thought otherwise judging from the scans taken from both Sun God and Chimera the technology was typical Romulan just a more advanced version of anything else seen previously. The biggest surprise had really been the maneuverability of the new Romulan assault fighter which put the current model of Federation assault fighter, the Warhammer to shame. If there was anything remotely Erassian about this encounter was the tactics displayed. Rule number one of Erassian Alliance Military tactics...use the right tool for the job.
After another draw of her cigarette Anya settled back into her line of thought. No the worst point about this whole mission was that it seemed like the Romulans hadn't really had a purpose in attacking the outpost. This was no lightning raid on an enemy outpost for intelligence. The fact that the Romulans had still been there a good while after taking the outpost indicated either severe incompetence or a baited trap.
The fact that there had been two warbirds plus two full squadrons of assault fighters packing a hell of a lot of anti-ship weaponry meant that the Romulans finally had the measure of the Federation. If it had been any other ship in the SSF First Task Force other than Chimera or perhaps the specialist Carrier the USS Hindenburg SSF would almost certainly have been a victory for the Romulan forces. The fact that Chimera had been assigned to this mission was likely sheer chance due to their availability at the time.
Anya had included in her report a damning report of the state of the tactics employed for the deployment of fighters in SSF and Starfleet as a whole and why with the Romulans displaying high degree tactical thinking that Starfleet could no longer rely on luck and numbers alone. Without an overhaul of tactics for the use of both fighters and Capital Ships and their joint deployment capabilities the Federation would soon find themselves on the losing side of this war, then again as so far they had only engaged in defensive actions it could be argued that the Federation was already losing this war. To prove her case she had pointed out that the point defense systems on the Chimera were the most advanced in the fleet and yet she had still taken a beating from scorpions launched from the reinforcement warbirds called in as backup. What would have been the case if they had faced the new Romulan assault fighters with the anti ship weaponry?
She took a deep draw off her cigarette and stubbed it out with a flash of sharp anger. Whilst she may need to watch her step as an Erassian citizen grudgingly allowed into Starfleet and then SSF she could not stand idly by whilst good pilots were fed into the meat grinder at the behest of some prick with high rank who thought solely of the next piece of tin to be pinned to their chest. With onl a split second's hesitation she pressed the button to send the report to her CO, the Task Force Intelligence Advisor and Task Force Command. She had no doubt that at least one of those parties would not be pleased by her opinions even if they were supported by facts and statistics.
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End Log
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Marine Captain Anya Xerxes
Flight Ops CO
USS Chimera - C
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