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Originally Posted by simonmark6
I'm sorry Nate, but your phrasing strongly suggested that you considered that the offensive was planned in order to act as cover for the recovery of the Reset Papers. Whilst your phrasing didn't exclude any other interpretation, it was the way that I and several others read it and therefore accusing Leg of putting words in your mouth and then taking offense at it is a rather strong reaction to his post.
We all phrase things imprecisely at some points and pointing out to Leg that that was the case would have been all you needed to do rather than accusing him of character assassination. In effect, if you do not think that the Summer Offensive was specifically launched in order to cover for Operation Reset then you are agreeing with Leg. Reset was a sideshow, an important one in your take of canon, a lesser one in Leg's but fundamentally you are agreeing with each other.
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That was not what I was saying. I stated that the offensive was used by RESET as a cover. Because that's actually in the books. And he comes out acting like the total and absolute authority of all things canon in T2k. He came right out of the gate jumping to a conclusion. And those who thought that was what i was saying didn't read what I was trying to explain to Leg who didn't want to listen to what i was saying to begin with.
I NEVER stated that the Summer Offensive was carried out as some kind of conspiracy to provide cover for RESET. I said that Operation RESET had used the Offensive as cover so that they could be successful. I brought up the fact that the soviets throwing som many assets into the area COULD HAVE BEEN a result of them trying to get RESET back.
I did say that naming Operatin RESET after the RESET device was stupid as hell, and that they should have given it a name that would have been able to be hidden amoung all the other Operations that were being carried out during the Summer Offensive. To hide the Operation among all the others.
As i described it, hiding a tree in a forest. So that it wouldn't stand out and draw attention to itself during radio communications.