fandomhigh | Battle Tactics and Strategy; Thursday, Fourth Period [02/15].

"This week," said Ignis, once everyone had gathered into the classroom, where he was leaning against the desk at the front , "I would like to discuss reconnaissance, and it's importance on accessing both a military battlefield as well as broader intelligence regarding one's enemy's resources, motivations, movements, and other helpful information. This is an incredibly broad topic, but an incredibly important one in securing success in any operation. After all, iterations of 'Know thine enemy' surface in military strategy guides all across the board, and it is often the side which manages to keep its operations under wraps that has the greater advantage in an encounter.

"But how does one go about uncovering their enemy's secrets? How does one go about maintaining their own? That is where reconnaissance will come into place. From scouting an area to sending in spies to recover information, there are a wide variety of methods that we will go over and discuss today, with a focus being heavily on three types: terrain-oriented, force-oriented, and civil-oriented. Or, in other words: learning more about the field in which your battles will take place, what type of enemies you're likely to face, and the general resources and other structural and societal elements that might come into play. We'll discuss various methods of going about obtaining such knowledge, as well as ways of preventing others from obtaining such knowledge from you, with a little discussion on how these can be applied to interactions off the battlefield, as well. We will then engage in a discussion, where I hope you can share your own experiences with reconnaissance, ask questions to improve your understanding of it, and perhaps even engage in a bit of a theater of the mind in setting up scenarios for each other in which we can determine how to best deploy our reconnaissance resources to extract the information we need to know.

"Sounds simple enough, does it not? So let's begin by breaking it down by way of types, starting with a focus on area..."

Your instructor had just returned from nearly a week of relaxation and rumination. You had better believe he was ready to wax intellectual and ramble on about what had always been one of his most engaging aspect of his former occupation...

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Like a spy!

Graham Cracker

Liliana

(Look, she's not a spy, she has minions for that.)

Illyana Rasputin

Nell Ingram

The world is doing everyone a favor by having this be an incredibly handwaved lecture, though Ignis will always encourage questions as interruptions.

Snoring, not so much. Ahem.

And once Ignis has droned on about the topic for a sufficient amount of time, he hopes the class will be up to a rousing discussion on the matter. Share your own experience and other examples of reconnaissance. Ask questions that might not have been clear. Was there a method or style you can think of that was not mentioned in the lecture or covered that deserves more discussion? Do you feel one area of reconnaissance is more important than the other? What anti-reconnaissance methods can you put into place against your enemies? Ignis has spoken plenty on the topic; it's now your turn to say what you might have to say on it.

"For my part, I use ghosts and spirits to do my reconnaissance for me," Liliana said. "Shades will also work - they're more nebulous than either ghosts or spirits, though they cannot go anywhere there are not shadows to hide in. They're generally limited conversationalists, but they can often mimic and repeat, or just inform me where something or someone can be located. Invisible, insubstantial spies are quite useful."

"I am a nightmare to keep out of somewhere," Illyana admitted cheerfully. "Need someone to open a tiny portal under a chair to plant a bug? Steal plans off a desk? Get a team in-and-out? I'm your girl."

"But I'm flashy. Literally." Yana held a hand palm-up, a small Stepping Disk spinning up above it, glowing brightly. "If someone is actually watching a security camera, I'm not hard to spot. That's why I prefer to see the location first, even if just in a photo or video of the space. If I know where the security cameras are, I can give them a little nudge first to keep myself off-screen."

He is, of course, there should anyone need to speak with him beyond the contexts of the class and its subject matter, or even perhaps on a more individual aspect.

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