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<blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 4549016" data-attributes="member: 360"><p>A bit of backstory...</p><p></p><p>Comments from the journals of Fleet Admiral Istara Kandorian Serrano</p><p></p><p>- On Grand Admiral Thrawn</p><p>[sblock]</p><p>"I've often been asked why I had so much success against him -- we faced each other five times before he was captured; I clearly won three times, clearly lost once, and once it was indecisive -- while others did not. A glib answer to why I had success against him would be that Anaxsi devote very little effort into art. But in truth there are a lot of reasons. He was, to be a sure, a brilliant tactician, and a better than fair strategist. But it always seemed to me that he was concerned with beating the other Admiral, while my goal was always to beat the other fleet. </p><p></p><p>"What he said -- and I spoke to him in person after we captured him -- was that he had made an extensive study of both my personal background and Anaxsi culture after he found out who the admiral was who faced him the first time my fleet faced his. And he didn't think I fought entirely like a protege of Ackbar's, or an Anaxsi, or an engineer, or an economist, or a fighter pilot's wife, or an industrialist's daughter, or a mother. So it was difficult to predict me.</p><p></p><p>"My answer is that I tried something different every time. By the time my task force met him the first time, I'd captured every strategic point for resupply, picked off his light forces, and forced him to retreat.</p><p></p><p>"The second time, he knew who I was, and caught me outnumbered; I was lucky to escape with most of my fleet intact. Ackbar told me later that he didn't think many admirals would have gotten out that mess alive, but I still count that as a loss. The history books -- at least here in the Republic -- call it a draw, since I didn't lose any capital ships, and my overall campaign was successful.</p><p></p><p>"The third, I'm sure he had been expecting to face Ackbar, not me. But my task force arrived just before he destroyed Home One, and command fell to me. More importantly, my task force were the MC90 prototypes with the first proton missiles; with the combined fire of every missile launcher from all six, we destroyed his Super Star Destroyer, and Darth Pauran with it. For a long time, I thought Thrawn had died then, too.</p><p></p><p>"The fourth bothers me the most; we had been making great gains in the aftermath of Darth Pauran's death when Thrawn re-appeared with three squadrons of new Imperial III class Star Destroyers with proton missiles of their own. Somewhere along the lines I forgot that the technology behind them was pretty straightforward; I wasn't used to seeing technical innovation from the Empire, and lost a quarter of Third Fleet for it. I offered Mon Mothma my resignation after that battle; she wouldn't take it.</p><p></p><p>"And the last time -- when we finally captured him -- there wasn't a lot of finesse involved. I had a larger, more modern fleet with more experienced and better-trained people. And he never really seemed to consider that someone might spend as much effort studying him as he put into studying his opponents; I was determined not to give him any opportunity to pull off something clever. Everyone was expecting some brilliant maneuver, but what we ended up with was basically a slugfest. And I had more slugs."</p><p>[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>- on new technology</p><p></p><p>[sblock]</p><p>"I'm credited with far more than I actually did, I think. The basic concept behind proton missiles was mine, but it was a great many Kandorian Heavy Industries engineers that made the idea real. All I did was run some basic equations that led me to question why capital ships used snub fighter sized missiles. And when KHI turned that into an actual design and prototypes, I argued for modifying the MC90 prototypes under construction to field test the idea.</p><p></p><p>"I wrote up the design requirements and reviewed the concepts for the Freedom class battleships and Alderaan class cruisers, but I didn't design them myself. I knew committing the Republic Navy to capital ships that used missiles as their primary armament was a serious logistical risk, but the advantages seemed so big I thought we had to take them.</p><p></p><p>"When the Empire started deploying their own proton missiles, I thought we just might be able to manage a bomber that could handle enough proton missiles to be useful, and that idea became the P-wing. Waric had more to do with developing that concept than I, and neither of us were starship designers.</p><p></p><p>"The one thing I will take credit for was the upgrades in defensive fire targeting systems we developed in response to the Imperial proton missiles. That was largely software, and I've always been an excellent programmer. More than that, there were some underlying similarities with financial modelling in the routines I used to predict how to best defend against mass missile attacks."</p><p>[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="drothgery, post: 4549016, member: 360"] A bit of backstory... Comments from the journals of Fleet Admiral Istara Kandorian Serrano - On Grand Admiral Thrawn [sblock] "I've often been asked why I had so much success against him -- we faced each other five times before he was captured; I clearly won three times, clearly lost once, and once it was indecisive -- while others did not. A glib answer to why I had success against him would be that Anaxsi devote very little effort into art. But in truth there are a lot of reasons. He was, to be a sure, a brilliant tactician, and a better than fair strategist. But it always seemed to me that he was concerned with beating the other Admiral, while my goal was always to beat the other fleet. "What he said -- and I spoke to him in person after we captured him -- was that he had made an extensive study of both my personal background and Anaxsi culture after he found out who the admiral was who faced him the first time my fleet faced his. And he didn't think I fought entirely like a protege of Ackbar's, or an Anaxsi, or an engineer, or an economist, or a fighter pilot's wife, or an industrialist's daughter, or a mother. So it was difficult to predict me. "My answer is that I tried something different every time. By the time my task force met him the first time, I'd captured every strategic point for resupply, picked off his light forces, and forced him to retreat. "The second time, he knew who I was, and caught me outnumbered; I was lucky to escape with most of my fleet intact. Ackbar told me later that he didn't think many admirals would have gotten out that mess alive, but I still count that as a loss. The history books -- at least here in the Republic -- call it a draw, since I didn't lose any capital ships, and my overall campaign was successful. "The third, I'm sure he had been expecting to face Ackbar, not me. But my task force arrived just before he destroyed Home One, and command fell to me. More importantly, my task force were the MC90 prototypes with the first proton missiles; with the combined fire of every missile launcher from all six, we destroyed his Super Star Destroyer, and Darth Pauran with it. For a long time, I thought Thrawn had died then, too. "The fourth bothers me the most; we had been making great gains in the aftermath of Darth Pauran's death when Thrawn re-appeared with three squadrons of new Imperial III class Star Destroyers with proton missiles of their own. Somewhere along the lines I forgot that the technology behind them was pretty straightforward; I wasn't used to seeing technical innovation from the Empire, and lost a quarter of Third Fleet for it. I offered Mon Mothma my resignation after that battle; she wouldn't take it. "And the last time -- when we finally captured him -- there wasn't a lot of finesse involved. I had a larger, more modern fleet with more experienced and better-trained people. And he never really seemed to consider that someone might spend as much effort studying him as he put into studying his opponents; I was determined not to give him any opportunity to pull off something clever. Everyone was expecting some brilliant maneuver, but what we ended up with was basically a slugfest. And I had more slugs." [/sblock] - on new technology [sblock] "I'm credited with far more than I actually did, I think. The basic concept behind proton missiles was mine, but it was a great many Kandorian Heavy Industries engineers that made the idea real. All I did was run some basic equations that led me to question why capital ships used snub fighter sized missiles. And when KHI turned that into an actual design and prototypes, I argued for modifying the MC90 prototypes under construction to field test the idea. "I wrote up the design requirements and reviewed the concepts for the Freedom class battleships and Alderaan class cruisers, but I didn't design them myself. I knew committing the Republic Navy to capital ships that used missiles as their primary armament was a serious logistical risk, but the advantages seemed so big I thought we had to take them. "When the Empire started deploying their own proton missiles, I thought we just might be able to manage a bomber that could handle enough proton missiles to be useful, and that idea became the P-wing. Waric had more to do with developing that concept than I, and neither of us were starship designers. "The one thing I will take credit for was the upgrades in defensive fire targeting systems we developed in response to the Imperial proton missiles. That was largely software, and I've always been an excellent programmer. More than that, there were some underlying similarities with financial modelling in the routines I used to predict how to best defend against mass missile attacks." [/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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