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Hex had quietly slipped into CP with a plate of food and a hot cup of coffee just seconds before the briefing had started. She didn't speak up, preferring to keep quiet and eat her food while she listened to green-as-grass comms officer prefaced their upcoming choices. She wasn't surprised to see so many newbies around. Her new tech. The comms officer. Hell, half the infanteers and regular MAS units in play at the moment were probably new or only slightly scuffed up. This war was an absolute meatgrinder, and the veterans were too valuable as trainers or elite operators to commit them to costly sieges and planetary invasions when so many had been killed off in the rise of MAS warfare. She dipped a piece of bread into a small bowl of soup and watched the watched him fidget with his compiled orders from up high.

When she heard the options, Hex found it difficult to choose. She knew she was the only one in their team who had any real dismounted combat experience, and that she'd likely be taking up a lot of the slack for the team. Hex wanted to rule that one out and agree with the mission to literally cut the power to the Coalition's defense infrastructure. It was strategically sound and would likely have the largest impact in this theatre with the stage they were at in the invasion. But hearing 'Project Forge' did have her curious, even if it was a bit on the nose.

It was too obvious to be real. But then again, perhaps the coalition would be counting on that? After all... Someone had once said that 'all warfare is based on deception.' And sometimes the simplest, easiest answers were the ones that were overlooked the most. Surely the enemy wouldn't be THAT foolish to name something so callously? Right? Regardless, a project was a project, and if the Coalition was working on one here on Skosgra, it might be beneficial to set it back before the project's data could be extracted offworld even if it wasn't the nanoforge. Causing a blackout would help the theatre, but stopping a coalition military project could potentially help the war effort on a grander scale, and if they were lucky, it could get the UEE one step closer to achieving their objective here on Skosgra anyways. It was a win-win in her mind. She just needed to convince the team that going in on foot would be worth the trouble...

Hex slurped back some soup loudly. It was a deliberate action to draw attention back to her. She raised her cup in the air as if it held granted some sort of talking privilege. [color=blueviolet][b]"I say we hit Project Forge."[/b][/color] she said before taking another bite of her food. She then flipped her spork over to the team, using it to accentuate her point, [color=blueviolet][b]"It might be too good to be true, but letting 'project Forge' slip away and having it turn out to be what we're here after all would be counterproductive. We should take the opportunity and hit it when we can. Best case scenario, we get our hands on the nanoforge and our mission is complete. Worst case scenario, provided we succeed- and we will, that's who we are, we knock out a potential Coalition R&D project and keep them from reversing the UEE's current momentum in the war. I shouldn't have to remind anyone here about the last time a Coalition R&D project exploded in her faces."[/b][/color] Leah's eyes turned over to the commander who had seen first hand the initial deployment of the Coalition's shiny MAS platforms.

[color=blueviolet][b]"We can keep our heads in the sand and just fight our battles here on Skosgra. Or we can fight a war and maybe grow old enough to retire. Besides, you're all trained for dismounted action too. Might not be a bad idea to stretch those muscles and keep the skills from fading. You might never know when the time will come where you're forced into a desperate situation on foot."[/b][/color]

Leah wasn't about to mention that she could, theoretically, give control of the Blackout to ADAM and have the stealthy MAS on standby if shit turned sideways.
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