If Stillstorm has what appears to be blind spots in her reasoning to us, it is because she appears to only have limited information on the situation in general and has literally been caught with her pants down. As Beryl pointed out earlier, there are supposed to be multiple checkpoints and listening posts beyond Rallis that should warn the loroi fleet of enemy movements, but no warnings came through and noone was aware of the attack. Probably because the loroi rely mostly on their farseers and the umiak, now invisible to them, have managed to overrun and destroy said early warning stations. So far we see her simply reacting to what is going on in her immediate field of view and, to be honest, we can't really blame her. At least she's not outright panicking and hopefully won't pull some sort of glorious "It's a good day to die" kind of stunt.icekatze wrote:I think Stillstorm clearly has some blind spots in her reasoning, in terms of things she's not willing to consider. Not really unreasonable, but still there. Time will tell if that ends up coming back to bite her or not.
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Honestly, I half expected the Umiak to drive on Azimol rather than Enedd.
But then again, I don't know what prime, juicy targets are at Enedd or beyond.
As for why the bulk of the umiak fleet not flying toward Azimol, I think is because there is another task force which we do not yet know about headed for Azimol through Gora which is accessible from Rallis via, if I read it right, Eze and Barrol (see map on Page 121). At least I would pretty much expect there being such a task force given what we know so far.
It is curious what the actual objective of the umiak invasion is though... Still feels kind of too small to be a full "D-day" kind of invasion to end the war, no? Attempt to take the Azimol base and Enedd and kick the loroi out of this sector? Kikitik-27's somewhat personal campaign against Admiral 'Storm-witch' Stillstorm and/or to secure/destroy the Terran artifacts she's carrying?