<em>Effingham</em>paced along her bridge for a moment, her mind racing as  she thought on the fly. "All right.... Okay, I got this.." she muttered, before whistling up the others.<br/><br/>"All right everyone, we need to be very careful about this; we don't know how heavy a fleet<em>Shinano</em>has as her escorts, but we're probably safe in assuming it's a powerful one indeed, so we can't afford to get into a prolonged battle with them if things go south." she began with a very serious tone. "Keeping that in mind, we're going to play this one as cagey as we can- go dark, and control all your sensor emissions, use signalling lamps or face-to-face to communicate. If you're able to, run with your decks awash to reduce your cross-section as well." she said. as her own hull then slowly slipped down into the water.<br/><br/>She then turned and paced for another few moments before continuing. "<em>Zara, Texas, Fuso</em>. I want one of you to knock together a seaplane to act as a spy drone to get in closer and listen in on their conversation." she ordered. "We need all the information we can get our hands on for this, so we need to take all reasonable measures." she stated.