By the bye, anyone else think that the attack on Lanan P-10 that started the game was actually orchestrated by the Sovereign itself to field test one of their secret spliced soldiers creations - timed (by those well above Calista's pay grade) specifically to coincide with the Academy noobs arrival so that would be cannon fodder for the test?
- Lanan is adjacent to the Sovereign Naval Academy HQ itself, so pretty much in the heart of Sovereign space. Not a fringe/border system for a random loot and scoot raid.
- How does a race with melee weapons-level technology even able to jump in-system, lurk, and take off again with what must have been a sizable fleet to attack the entire surface simultaneously w/o being detected by any Sovereign defense assets whatsoever - including a g'damn Battle Cruiser we know for a fact was in orbit around that moon. Add to that tech to jam communications on a moon-wide level and it suggests they had help, (maybe even being ferried by the Sovereign themselves.)
- Completely lackadaisical response and zero concern for casualties (locals and cadets alike) by Ypotryll once alerted. No marines? No academy trainers interested in the well being of their cadets? No medics coming down with the shuttles?
- Of all the orders that Sovereign command could give to the TGN Ypotryll post raid; (a) Intercept and attack, (b) Pursue with all speed and attempt boarding rescue, (c) Detach secondary ships to shadow, (d) Follow but do not engage etc. It was "Just return and we'll talk about it later." Uhhm ok then.
Smells hell'a fishy to me.
To top it off, you don't send elite assassins after deserters. If you want to bother at all, you send the Military Police. Elite assassins are for when you don't want them to somehow actually succeed in finding out where the Amazons are...and one only wants to keep a secret secret if one is actually in on the secret - the Amazons are not some lost secret experiment gone rogue, the Sovereign know exactly where they are.