Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Decoy Drop

The Decoy Drop is one of the earliest, and cheapest (as in the commander gains this protocol at the very start), support power used by the Minutemen.

Overview
The Minutemen's reliance on PAWI and fiber optic tech has caused no shortage of headaches to Aquilan/Voshkod commanders in Aquila/Eorzea. The threat of enemy Beagle tanks or enemy thieves appearing from nothing has so distracted Aquilan/Voshkod command that, in their scramble to gather countermeasures, they forget that sometimes, the simplest tricks work the best.

A decoy drop is a simple flare placed in the enemy's area of operations which, given the Minutemen's usage of flares to signal other attacks and operations, has forced many a commander to divert patrols from a vital area to counter-attack the inevitable assault that never comes, or more to the point, forces troops to a more defensible position, leaving a valuable stretch of land for the taking.