The TURN (Nick Sylvain's "hole in the bag")

Richard,

	Excellent work on the Turn report.  Seeing it all in one place
(er, well, SIX places :-) certainly brought a semblance of order to the
whole process.  I think I've spotted what Nick Sylvain (aka the Aslan
CO) thinks is the weak point in Ralf's actions:

> -------------
> Aslan Pinnace
> -------------
> "Admiral, I respectfully must request that you give me the coordinates
> of the enemy fleet again.  My feeble sensors cannot distinguish it from
> the background of deep space."

	I suspect Nick means to use this to discover that the ships were
phantoms.  However, I question the accuracy of this... quoting from my copy
of the story sequence I sent to you:

> 	...and then he was there, in the buffer space at the fringe of
> the Aslan datasphere, watching the interplay between the two ships.  A
> stroke of luck, that.  The telemetry and encrypted communications
> between the two meant they had to be somewhat "open" to incoming
> signals, which in turn meant he had barely enough space for the
> foothold his heuristics package had secured.

	In other words, no, I did not specifically say "I'm faking out
the sensors of both ships", but that was because I was regarding them
as a whole, not as individual entities, acting under the implied
statement that my actions were directed at both ships.

Steven J. Owens
[email removed]
aka Ralf