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RMS Knife's Edge, a Ronin-class Scout/Escort: landed at Tresek (alert status; not powered down), acting as a listening post

1× TL-12 Active/Passive Drone: orbiting Tresek, controlled by Knife's Edge

RCS Thunderchild, an Aurora-Class Clipper Ship:

Initial Location:	????	(see "Placement" from appropriate "Setup" option above)
Initial Velocity:	10	(see "Optimized Plan of Attack" below)
Initial Heading:	6	(straight for Keipes)
Max G-Turns:	29

Consolidated list of sensors & armaments:
• 1× TL-12 300,000 km (10 hx) Radio
• 1× TL-12 1,000 AU (inf.) Maser-Comm
• 2× TL-12 300,000 km (10 hx) Active EMS
  (1× up-and-running; 1× powered down)
• 1× TL-12 120,000 km (4 hx) Passive EMS, fixed array
• 2× TL-12 60,000 km (2 hx) Passive EMS, fixed array
• 1× TL-11 180,000 km (6 hx) Ladar
• 1× TL-12 300,000 km (10 hx) EMS Jammer
• 1× TL-12 1,000 Mj Meson Gun
  (Short 5:158; Medium 10:75; Long 20:38; Extreme 40:19)
• 14× TL-15 150 Mj Laser Turrets
  (Short Range: 10 hexes; Pen.-Dmg.: ¹/₁₀-30 at all ranges)
• 12× Missile Turrets (2 msls. each)
• 2× Missile Barbettes (5 msls. each)
• 3× TL-12 300,000 km (10 hx) beam-only MFDs
  (-4 Diff. Mods.)
• 8× TL-12 300,000 km (10 hx) beam/missile MFDs
  (-4 Diff. Mods.)
• 1× TL-12 30 MW Meson Screen (PV: 194)

"Passengers": 114× Marines
(Passenger capacity of landers is only 84; must use ship's boat and modular cutter to retrieve all Marines in the same turn.)

Skill Assets:

Skill Name: Asset	Easy	Average	Difficult	Formidable	Impossible
Communications: 15	(19-) 19	(19-) 19	(5-) 15	7 (17+)	3 (13+)
Electronics: 15	(19-) 19	(19-) 19	(5-) 15	7 (17+)	3 (13+)
Gunnery (cascade)
Energy Weapons: 15	(19-) 19	(19-) 19	(5-) 15	7 (17+)	3 (13+)
Missiles: 15	(19-) 19	(19-) 19	(5-) 15	7 (17+)	3 (13+)
Leadership: 15	(19-) 19	(19-) 19	(5-) 15	7 (17+)	3 (13+)
Naval Tactics (cascade)
Fleet Tactics: 13	(19-) 19	(16-) 19	(3-) 13	6 (16+)	3 (13+)
Ship Tactics: 13	(19-) 19	(16-) 19	(3-) 13	6 (16+)	3 (13+)
Pilot (cascade)
Interface: 15	(19-) 19	(19-) 19	(5-) 15	7 (17+)	3 (13+)
RCV Operations: 15	(19-) 19	(19-) 19	(5-) 15	7 (17+)	3 (13+)
Screens (cascade)
Meson Screens: 15	(19-) 19	(19-) 19	(5-) 15	7 (17+)	3 (13+)
Nuclear Dampers: 15	(19-) 19	(19-) 19	(5-) 15	7 (17+)	3 (13+)
Sandcaster: 15	(19-) 19	(19-) 19	(5-) 15	7 (17+)	3 (13+)
Sensors: 15	(19-) 19	(19-) 19	(5-) 15	7 (17+)	3 (13+)
Ship's Engineering: 15	(19-) 19	(19-) 19	(5-) 15	7 (17+)	3 (13+)

Victory/Defeat Conditions:

Victory Points:

• +5 per Dawn League/RC prisoner rescued and taken out-system. (Note: There are 18 prisoners total.)
• -5 per Dawn League/RC prisoner taken out-system by any other player.
• -10 per Dawn League/RC prisoner killed.
• +10 for capturing DLS Eos and jumping out-system.
• +5 for destroying DLS Eos.
• +5 per ship captured and taken out-system.

Automatic Defeat (any one of the following):

• Destruction of the Clipper.
• Not rescuing any of the prisoners.

Overwhelming Victory Condition:

• Having at least as many VPs as the total of the VPs for all other players.

Marginal Victory Condition:

• Having highest total of VPs.

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