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-My thinking isn't that it can get them directly to an enemy ship straight out of the gate, it's that it can at least get them closer. Nothing off-track about that.-

Still, that's not a win. That gets one into an internal ship battle on one front while there's another active enemy ship, and which lasts until the enemy pulls back- which, having full mobility of shuttles and such, won't be long.

Even if it's a plan that'd cause the enemy a fair amount of pain, it's not one that prevents things from turning into full, doomed combat.

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Those are good reasons it might not have worked, yeah, but I personally would've been much more credulous reading it. And fighting ultimately doesn't amount to a hill of beans either, so.

And all the reasons in the world why stealing a ship might not work or why it would be risky doesn't change my main quibble: Rushing out to fight like they do is a bad plan, and not even a logically bad plan.-

Note, we didn't even get through the full plan. The plan was basically, Spark Supercharge, run out and do damage, retreat behind storm shield, *then* they'd have time to recover and repair and prepare again.

The supercharge thing + shield means they were able to inflict heavy casualties in exchange for light casualties, and then reset the situation so the enemy still isn't closer to coming in. Maybe they'd try the supercharge again, maybe something else, but it wasn't an all-or-nothing plan. The damage they dealt means it'd be easier to enact future plans- fewer foes to stop them.