However, if you're going to choose between;
Except that those aren't the only choices. For a start I've not been talking about communications. I've been talking about supply lines and a way out of Capella. No human or Vasudan would allow the enemy to cut their supply lines and if the Shivans needed them for anything else I doubt they would either.
Secondly there is an enormous difference between what the captain of the Colossus thought the Shivans would do next and what they actually would do. Staying behind to stop the Shivans makes them heroes regardless of what would actually have happened. So Petrach is still correct to call them that. This community is unfortunately full of armchair tacticians who claim that they would have known what to do in any given situation and how it was a better choice that whatever Command or Bosch or whoever did. I've always hated that. I'm not going to argue that the Colossus made the wrong choice to stay behind or that they should have jumped out.
In other words I'm picking A and E. With E being that the Shivans might not have followed the Colossus if it had jumped out. That doesn't mean that they made the wrong choice to stay though.
Yes, I'll take the Admirals thoughts in character over anyone elses here regarding the fate of the fictional story he's a part of. Funny, I thought that's what we were all doing. But no, even when they say it, it's not like that, because you yourself know most and the fictional characters in the fictional story? They know nothing.
You need to abandon that line of thought as soon as possible, it does NOT work well for you in any sort of way.
Yes, they aren't the only choices. What is wrong with you people? Those were the 4 prominent choices I've taken from this discussion. You can add five hundred and fifty five more choices, and I'm going to bet that they're all going to end up looking like the ones below A, because the ones below A are your best bets so far, and they're really horrible horrible bets.
E is retarded as well, because it disregards the purpose of the mission (distraction) and it disregards the notion of the admiral of the Colossus. I'd assume someone with that rank, commanding the biggest ship ever, would know much better about what he was talking about, then you would.
I suspect that was what ngtm1r was on about too but he used the wrong word.
No, actually using the right words, but someone's not understanding them in the proper fashion. I suppose I'm speaking military better than people here understand it. The phrase "lines of communication" does not refer to what it seems to have been interpreted as, perhaps a historical allusion to the days when they sent runners for communications. Instead it means the ability to bring reinforcements and supplies forward to a fighting front/unit.
Yeah, I meant 50 other things too when my argument has been slain to death and mutilated beyond recognition.
It's because I'm so military.
