Re: XBOAT digest 219

>> What were the Zhodani planning to gain
>> by sending that tech-14 40th Fleet of theirs on an attack on the tech-15
>> defenses at Rhylanor?

Is it conceivable that the attack on Rhylanor had little or nothing to do
with the Impies at all?  It's counter-intuitive, but it IS possible that
whoever ordered the attack on Rhylanor did it for a reason wholly internal
/political to Zhodane.  I.e. to prove that "we must make peace" or "your
party's ideas for running this war suck!" or "that bastard admiral has been
philandering with my wife!" or any number of ideas.  What I am suggesting
is that the attack was PLANNED to fail, fo rsome extenuating circumstance.
Just an idea.
-Steve