*Samus nods grimly, her expression set in a frown as she steps up to the table, circling it at a stalk.*
Cold equations. I can understand the necessity, but they should be behind dozens of tiers of fallback options. The kind of option that doesn't get considered until you're deep in a siege. In the situation you've described, killing anyone is a mark of woeful incompetence and complete failure to prepare. If whoever ordered it wasn't first to die, I'd start examining the situation to see if other motives came into play.
*She leans down, striking quick and hard to send the cue ball ricocheting around the table. She sinks a ball, circling as the cue trundles on, and takes her next shot the very instant it stops (arguably, perhaps a little before), sinking another (along with one of Jim's), and a third time--this time, nothing sinks, but she's put her last ball where the starship captain should find it least convenient.*
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Cold equations. I can understand the necessity, but they should be behind dozens of tiers of fallback options. The kind of option that doesn't get considered until you're deep in a siege. In the situation you've described, killing anyone is a mark of woeful incompetence and complete failure to prepare. If whoever ordered it wasn't first to die, I'd start examining the situation to see if other motives came into play.
*She leans down, striking quick and hard to send the cue ball ricocheting around the table. She sinks a ball, circling as the cue trundles on, and takes her next shot the very instant it stops (arguably, perhaps a little before), sinking another (along with one of Jim's), and a third time--this time, nothing sinks, but she's put her last ball where the starship captain should find it least convenient.*
Could the shortage have been deliberate?