Blog Trek: Point Blank

CYBERSPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER...

THESE ARE THE VOYAGES OF THE UCS WEBLOG...

ITS MULTIYEAR MISSION...

TO EXPLORE STRANGE NEW SITES...

TO SEEK OUT NEW FACTS AND NEW POINTS OF VIEW...

TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO BLOGGER HAS GONE BEFORE....



Aboard the United Cybership (UCS) Weblog...



Captain's blog, Cyberdate 20080307.

The UCS Weblog is on full alert, rapidly approaching a congregation of enemy vessels that we have been monitoring for some time. With the call to general quarters still resounding about our ship, targeting information is being fed into our fire control system databanks. We will be making a high speed computer-assisted approach, decloaking in the midst of the enemy force, firing weapons salvoes from point blank range in volleys precisely aimed at sensitive enemy targets, then recloaking to exit the battle scene at high velocity, wrapped safely in the protective depths of cyberspace. Maneuvering at extreme speed, we will be able to repeat this process, giving the enemy the impression that we are in several different places at the same time.

Ordinarily, our ship would perhaps be no match for even three or four enemy vessels, let alone such a large array, but the tactical situation is very much to our advantage. While the enemy has had every opportunity to be alerted to the fact that there is an operational threat to them, the specifics of the situation elude them -- though they expect to be fired upon, they know neither what specifically is about to be hit, nor from which direction.

I try to imagine what must be going through the minds of my counterparts, the commanders of the enemy vessels; they know well some -- but not all -- of the places where they are most vulnerable, and in the absence of hard information about our imminent attack, it can only be left to their imaginations to guide them in anticipation of the coming battle. The enemy has no idea which of their fears are about to be brought upon them, but in short order we shall decloak -- and give my opposite numbers an education full of surprises at point blank range.