veilbreak | emcleod; 001

Right.

Thanks to Jiah and Mav, we now have signals of the blowback Verin cautioned us against. Can’t say for sure they’re connected, but sure as shit feels like it.

While others work on the Harvest situation, I’m setting up a joint meeting in E1 at 17:00 tonight with Battlest, Information, Engineering and Tech to address three main issues:

How we’re going to reliably track the approaching vessels at range and altitude, including getting useful data about their makeup so we can get ahead of how to take the fuckers out of the sky.
Whether our current aircraft and tech can reach and operate high enough to intercept — and if not, what Engineering needs to modify to get them there and the time to get there.
If item two is impossible and too risky with the timeline and size of our fleet, where and how do we meet them.

Because this impacts us all, Heads of these areas are required but all are free to attend, so ~~keep stupid questions or ideas to yourself~~ come prepared.

PHILIP AND GRIFF

Did I forget anything?

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I'll start looking into it.

Great. There were some questions from Ground about some materials too, but they can bring up the details.

Not a problem. I'll get the team to focus on these items. The planes are likely modifiable, but feasibility and resources could be the issue. However, I am going to think positively about this.

Thanks. You go with positively, I’ll handle realistically.

Initial thoughts are that we want to increase the service ceiling of the jets (fly them higher at a level where there's even less air) if we want the planes to be able to go out to meet the welcoming party.

There are several ~~prob~~ challenges with this but I'll think on it before the meeting.