Thread:Zillafire101/@comment-4960835-20160524105213/@comment-25309944-20160905040104

@Gorzill Right, but the objective for me isn't to write for the enjoyment of the reader; it's to be purely factual. The drama is in the opening stages, where the is uncertainty about who will side with whom and whether the Mendel will chose to attack early and inflict real damage. By the time we get to September 19, it's 7v1 by the Hand's own design and decisions as we've played them out on this thread, and there's not much in the way you can do to make that into a contested engagement. "Flatten" is a pretty good word in that situation.

Through exaggeration and narrowing the focus, you could dramatize bits and pieces of the picture, a Mendel general trying and failing to protect his troops and stay true to his loyalties at the same time, a French pilot shot down and stranded on a pilot somewhere, a group of Persan omnifighters trying to fight a guerilla war against Covenant fighter sweeps in the opening stages of the air war, all of those are dramatic and worth reading about. But as I mentioned earlier, the point of this particular page is to deliver an account that is purely factual, off of which other events can be based.