The bridge of the OSIS-Horus is a wonderment of advanced CIC technology and crew stations. Holographics display any number of details about the status of the ship and surrounding space.

Wall panels that fill up the room display an augmented view of the outside through a mix of polyspectral cameras and sensors, creating an informative and evocative view of the space outside.

The ship is fully crewed, preparing for another long foray into enemy space...

Selana chose a seat on the bridge, where she wouldn't get in the way of the day to day operations of the vessel. "Our remit for this mission is a substantial one and one filled with perils and risk. How do you propose we manage to apporach the enemy star system?"

A young officer pipes up from the comms console. "Excuse me, agent, but I think I have an answer for you. Permission to speak?" She stands up from her console, waiting for your response.
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"You don't need my permission to speak. If you think what you have to say has value, then you should feel at liberty to say it."
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"You heard the lady, Duval. Go ahead and tell us."

"Alright. The corsairs out on the frontier use a certain tactic called Shannon's Gambit. It's an old trick actually, and pretty simple. When they raid a planet, they do a slow drill down, taking about a half an hour to transfer back to N-space, but reducing the drill footprint. They perform this manoeuvre about a light hour out, preferably in the ecliptic so that if you think someone's about to look at you, you can switch off the spike drive and look at first glance like a comet. At that range, most gravitic sensors won't pick up the spike signature, and with the stealth tech on this ship, no one will see us unless they know exactly where to look." She's speaking with an accent you've never heard before, a rapid-fire stream of thought with a slight lisp on her Cs, Gs and Ks. "Now, it's actually harder to pull off than I made it sound. First off, as we get closer to the target, the spike signature gets a lot easier to pick up, and even if the planet itself doesn't see us, there's bound to be some satellites and outposts that would pick us up. So, we drill down, accelerate in-system at max power for a few hours, then we cut engines, shut down the ship's gravity, and coast for the two days or so until our close approach, all the while monitoring their transmissions and finding the location of our target. It's a slow way to get there, but it will get you close. Really close. In Horus, this trick coupled with emissions dampening should be able to get us within a few thousand klicks of any ship before it picks us up, and even the big sensor suites they're bound to have on the planet itself shouldn't pick us up until we're about a hundred thousand klicks away. I've got full information on the planet's sensors, so I'll be able to tell you almost exactly how close we can get, as soon as I run a few more simulations."

All through this, she's been standing at full attention and speaking at full speed. Now she takes a deep breath, slips into parade rest, then continues. "Now comes the tricky part. We wait until just before they would see us anyway, then go to full acceleration again, now in the opposite direction, so that we're decelerating. As quick as we can, we fire off a few shots with the canon, destroy some orbital infrastructure, cause some chaos with ECM and a chaf cloud, and then launch the shuttle in the confusion and turn off from our original course and accelerate in a random direction, trying to draw their attention away. They won't be expecting a stealthed shuttle, and we should be able to hide the launch if it's at the same time as a canon shot. Horus spikes back out as soon as the drive core is heated up, leaving the shuttle behind, with whoever the agent chooses. It uses sensor shadowing to hide from the planet. The shuttle keeps decelerating, but slowly, using emissions dampening for any ship that comes too close, and sensor shadowing to hide from the planet. Then it aerobrakes in the planet's atmosphere. The shuttle's small, and just as well stealthed as the main ship, so you should be able to do that much without any trouble. Once you've slowed down with the aerobrake manoeuvre, you'll have a lot easier of a time manoeuvring. Go to your target, wherever that may be, complete the mission, and then make your getaway. Stay low-key until you're out of the region, then power up the spike drive to full and head for a predetermined rendezvous point, where Horus will be waiting to pick you up." She stops, seeming out of breath, looks up for approval, then, remembering her training, adds a last minute salute.
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Selana glanced at the captain her eyebrow raised questioningly "Can you give me an analysis of this theory and how likely it is to work? I'm a little wary of letting our enemies know of the presence of the Horus in any respect as a determined enemy will find it regardless of how much money was spent on the stealth systems, but if you're confident the ship could weather such a search? I fear that the presence of even a small ship might be enough for the enemy to raise the alert levels around our prize and make him harder to interrogate given the time pressures...." she looked at the crewman making the suggestion "A good proposal, we should deconstruct it and analyze it for flaws before a decision is made. Perhaps others can modify the plan and make it yet more sound."

"It's a good plan, but it depends entirely on where in system we find our prize. If we can catch them off world, all the better. Once we get within orbit of Nergal, they'll see us. That's only a matter of time." She nods to the junior officer.

"If we're lucky, we'll catch one of them on a ship or aboard an installation somewhere. We can assault a small ship or sneak on board. An installation would be the easiest, we can simply use the shuttle to insert and extract from a safe distance."

"If we're unlucky, we'll have to go down to the surface, which means a distraction is the only thing that might work. We do have assets on the surface, operating in secret however... so there's a silver lining, even there."

"It is my professional opinion, that once we capture the target, we should proceed to drill out of system immediately. There's no reason to stay and we have no intention of returning him to his comrades." She glances back at Selana "However, that decision rests in your capable hands, Mistress."
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The tall XO of the ship entered with two familiar individuals in tow. With a nod to both Selana and the Commander, he took up a position to her right, hands behind his back and eyes alert, as befitting a ship's executive officer.

Slinking in behind XO al-Qabis, the Shivari, dressed again in his billowing robes and only his Skana at his side. He takes a sit across the room from Selana and faces the group without saying a word.