Captain Hargreaves softened, "I'm not trying to place blame on anyone, I'm just trying to identify the root cause.  Because from now on, you will all be more involved in tactical decisions."

"I set up an artillery position and asked Blythe Rivers, our injured pilot, to defend the position alone," Sion continued, "I have no doubt in her abilities, but I had hoped that with Maya's assault on their ships, the enemy forces would be split.  We were wrong and the enemy deemed our position the greater threat, sending an overwhelming majority of their forces at us.  Blythe took the brunt of it, and this was the result."

"As strong as cogs are, it would help if we had support from the rest of the fleet," Maya added with surprisingly no disrespect.

"I understand," Captain Hargreaves said, "The leaders of the project are finally starting to come around on that.  They originally wanted to 'test' the cogs by themselves, without support, but are now saying that a 'synergistic' approach may be better." She said this with a little venom, it was clear she had her disagreements with science department.