[Space] Adapting "Honorverse" Concepts to GURPS

[cmdicely]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

Setting up a fire pattern macro to execute on command isn't simply supervising and strategizing, it's doing all the actual work.

That...depends. Sure, if you imagine it as analogous to setting up an Excel macro, it would be. OTOH, for all we know, the actual process could be a lot more of an interaction between a human tac officer and a tactical AI, where the human provides criteria and goals, the AI provides potential approaches which are simulated against defined circumstances, and the latter evaluates the proposals using both objective measures and subjective evaluations, provides refinements to the criteria and goals, etc., until a plan is developed which is stored away and executed when needed.

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by cmdicely

That...depends. Sure, if you imagine it as analogous to setting up an Excel macro, it would be. OTOH, for all we know, the actual process could be a lot more of an interaction between a human tac officer and a tactical AI, where the human provides criteria and goals, the AI provides potential approaches which are simulated against defined circumstances, and the latter evaluates the proposals using both objective measures and subjective evaluations, provides refinements to the criteria and goals, etc., until a plan is developed which is stored away and executed when needed.

That doesn't outright contradict any source material I can think of at the moment.

On the other hand, I don't believe anything like that is ever mentioned either. Which it certainly should have been, if it were the case.