I'm pretty sure you meant , but my response is definitely , or possibly if I'm feeling less rude. That I'm is a given.Ryan Thunder wrote: Really?
gibberishcut
Oh wait that might involve the HEA/protagonists making believable mistakes...
Your wankery aside, it is very difficult for writers to show the absence of something in writing, especially 2 years after the fact, especially something that can't be brought up physically like general supplies. Stuart has used the quite workable method of stating such things in meetings where characters are telling each other information to relay this several times- by this point it should be background knowledge for the reader, assuming they haven't been reading a chapter a week (insert emoticon for whistling to oneself here.)
EDIT: Okay, so that gibberish was supposed to mean something. If you want to try showing something, actually show it next time; don't expect us to know what CAS means or that people saying "scrub the mission." "Why?" "Just scrub it." = no supplies. It rather invalidates your point on showing information when you can't.
The bolded part was never said, and the italicized section was barely inferred. Okay, I'm done with this.Ryan Thunder wrote: The gist of it is, "dudes call down a bomb on something. A demon barracks or whatever. the HEA is having supply difficulties => bombs/arty aren't used for just anything => HQ calls them off because they fucked up the supply numbers and there's no arty in range because they didn't think they'd need it => dudes have to improvise."
On the library debate; I'm sure that there are archives, collecting records and information, but there are few libraries, collecting knowledge; and the ones that exist are private like Micheal's presumed collection, not public.