Seems pretty clear. That's a decent point. According to the book, the beam spreads out a lot if you don't have the ground signal, but it didn't quantify that.

Seems pretty clear. That's a decent point. According to the book, the beam spreads out a lot if you don't have the ground signal, but it didn't quantify that. And there's always the possibility of some sort of covert action putting a transmitter in the target area. If the malicious actor is hacking the satellites that power the victim's country, then the repoint gets a double whammy by cutting off power to the areas it was supposed to go.