i chose to believe judge me in 5 years eh, page-19

Any attempt at a t/o would involve AWE and NWE IMHO.
NWE on its own would not be attractive to a raider.

Disagree with your analogy DM.
We have identified the subject of our interest, determined that it is resourceful and we are testing it's response.
It's playing a little hard to get but has not closed up shop on us yet.
I think we are well past 1st base.

lol