"Doesn't that strike you as odd?"
"Talk to me."
"Setting the launch point against the depot from a couple of million kay outbound from the Plutonian orbit doesn't make sense. It's especially suspicious when you consider that the INOR forces will be coming from sunside of Pluto and therefore sunside of the depot — the presumed target less than a half million kay from here. Why not have the fleet rendezvous closer to the target?"
"My question, precisely."
"How do you see it?"
"I'm not sure yet. Narval did say to crank in diversionary tactics that would draw the Terminals' defensive forces away from their normal ops zone."
"That's weird."
"Agreed. He's setting it up this way to maximize his options, he says. The final decision, he said, needn't be made until the final moments. Confuse the enemy and all that."
"Are you saying the same plan can be used against the Terminals?"
"Absolutely. Oh, a few formation and tactical switches but they can be made in the field as the fleet switches targets."