| SUBMITTED: Stardate 95166.7 | FILED BY: CAPTAIN Emery Quint | SECURITY: Level 3 - Restricted |
“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.”--Sun Tzu
These words were written some two thousand, nine hundred years ago, and still to this day hold truth. Sometime back, we recovered a tactical officer's paperwork from an Azedi ship destroyed during the battle at DS 13. This documentation contained much useful data, amid that being how they calculated their firing solutions for the primary weapon that gives them such an advantage in an engagement. While counter measures have been developed they are only part of the equation. Research into the weaponry itself is ongoing, but each step is an advantage. Early on I developed several tactical maneuvers that gained us advantage and allowed us to generally avoid their primary weapon, in an ideal situation. These were put together based on sensor records from battles and adaptation based on predictive algorithms. Recovered data from the Azedi ship has advanced this considerably.
Azedi do not use computers to calculate firing solutions. They used their own minds and mathematical formula. While a testament to their skill, it also provides us an advantage in this case. Attached are some examples of the firing paperwork we recovered to detail what exactly they do before firing the primary weapon. These cards would be referenced by the fire control Officer,and adjustments made similar to an old Earth style battleship.
Spoiler: Card 1Show
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While we understood the basic ideas behind it, having this data now completes the puzzle on how they gained such accuracy. Applying this to current evasive patterns has proven highly successful in more than a hundred computer simulations. Similar use of these mannevers have proven to have sustainable amounts of strain delivered to a starships frame. In some cases a far simpler change in vector at the right moment means less drastic movements taken to avoid fire. This has also allowed the addition of multiple craft in an engagement, based on what has been seen as well as what we see as optimal firing positions. This again has expanded the evasive movements I have been able to calculate and simulate with resounding success.
*Gainsborough Pattern set-Defensive*
These are attached for review and potential approval for distribution to the fleet, to have on hand should the situation arise.