OOC: Sorry for the long post.
"Alright," Darvin says, somewhat pleased that his ideas had been so well taken as a whole.
"There's a lot of ground to cover... Here's what I think our primary objectives for the recon should be:
- We need to get as much information for our next convoy run.
- We'll also need to figure out the Refinery Plant's layout and get a leg up on the refinery hit.
"Given you seem to have some ideas on the tagger, Cor, can you work with Xil to see if you can get something that we could adapt to a sniper riffle, or something similar? Do we even have one for him?" He asked, his brow arching up as he looked over towards Rann, though he quickly resumed his chain of thoughts.
"Maybe Devon and Mika can assist before they leave for Phindar Prime... At worse, we'll have to get up close and personal, which is something I would like to avoid, so I also see the point in taking a second approach in gaining their jump coordinates, in case we fail on the first idea," he continued.
"Ms. Masters, I'll want you with us on Phindar, and I'd like you to try slicing the information through indirect means... maybe they file flights plans, maybe a droid will need some maintenance and has all that information already. Let's try not to slice imperial networks. We wouldn't want to tip our hand, inadvertently.
"That should pretty much cover the first objective? Now the second objective will need more work, and we should get as much of it done in advance," he said.
"I figure we'll need:
- Very detailed plans of the place, and its surroundings,
- The plant's employee database and shift schedules, particularly their security details,
- The plant's maintenance schedule, especially to see if there is a crew coming in for a scheduled maintenance that we could work with.
- Refinery Plant's Response Times and Emergency Counter-measures as well as Phindar's Response times to emergencies, this includes their places of origin and possibility of infiltrating/disabling ahead of time,
- Plan for a diversion that can get their security to look the other way.
"Merreck / Rann, I think we can whip up those unhappy crewmen and maybe use them as that distraction. Any distraction that you can stir up, might draw security forces away from us long enough for us to attempt something if we need it. Lay down some ground work for it to happen when we need it later, and perhaps test out the security response times while we're at it. You and Rann might also be able to find out if there are outside entities that regularly work at the refinery. Maintenance, repair, medical... whatever it is, if we can find a side way in, perhaps Masters can slice into their system and help me make any IDs that much more credible," he added.
"Masters, obviously front and center again on this second objective. You could work with Merreck and Rann on which data systems we could slice into, and perhaps see if there's a way to slice the Refinery's mainframe. The Refinery ought to be the very last thing we do, because it may give us away. Also, if we put something on their servers, I want to make sure you have a failsafe for that information to be removed.
"Xil, I don't think we'll need to walk into the refinery on this first pass, but we will have to when the time actually comes up to blow it all up. Since you're the best person to lead a team in, we should explore infiltration points and exit strategies. If you think I need to get a combat droid to help with placing charges in Tandem, I'll have to figure out a way to get that piece of metal into play. I'd rather not go that route if we can avoid it.
"Aryan Jai... I'll need someone to watch our backs. I'd rather it be you, than a droid that attracts a lot of attention." Darvin smirked at this, as if he had reservations about droids in the first place. Luckily Cor wasn't around to notice.
Darvin paced a bit as if thinking some more...
"One last thing," he said as if remembering an important detail.
"We can't go in this time around with a full set of equipment that will raise suspicions. Weapons will have to be low key... so if you have doubts, come and see me."