SDNW5 Preliminary Discussion Thread

[Rabid]

Homura: Your "training," if it can be called that, also turns them into psychologically scarred Manchurian candidates. You forgot to mention that, though I'm sure it's in the fine print of that contract you want them to sign.

Nanoha: In any case, the Holy Empire's own civilian and military esper academies would be more than happy to accept students from the Nation. They will learn from among the best and greatest, including yours truly. In the meantime, though, since the League of Thought apparently refuses of partake in the Centralists' challenge, I will do so on their behalf, though a one-on-one fight would certainly not be fair. Instead, the Centrality will send ten of its best espers to face me. They will learn first-hand why I'm the White Devil and they're a bunch of black-garbed schmucks.

[Freija] - "Heh, why not. We have a wide-range of espers to train, of numerous species and capabilities, and we are always willing to share experiences, one way or the other. I'm sure the Council would see an exchange program as a wonderful opportunity to strengthen the relations between the Community and the Holy Empire."

[Dagger] - "Furthermore, I'm a certain espers from the Holy Empire would take great profit from frequenting our own academias, as the variety of people and way to express extra-normal abilities they will encounter in them will without any doubt enrich their own experiences."

[Thelf] - "Thinking about it, wouldn't it be interesting to invite the League to such an exchange program ? I am sure we could all learn from their Gesltalt Training, and them from encountering a bit of variety. Who know ? Maybe encountering strangers and working with them could mellow them out a bit ?"


[[ I'm proposing to make a "story" about a three-way-or-more (depending if others want to join) exchange program between the Nation, the League and the Holy Empire. ]]


Freija : Captain of the DN's Gently Backstabbing You, Escort-Cruiser in the Terminus Sector Fleet.
Dagger : AI-partner of Freija, and currently Board-AI of the Gently Backstabbing You.
Thelf : Apprentice of Freija, serving aboard the Gently Backstabbing You as Second-in-Command.

[Crossroads Inc.]

"And next on ISPN, results of the arenas on the World of Tanks..."

The World of Tanks...

A planet that is nothing but one constant world wide tank battle, using tanks from all nations at all points of history, this has so got to be a Micronation now.

AGREED! It can also serve as a place for races to come together, in peace, harmony, and a shared love of blowing the crap outta things with TANKS!

[OmegaChief]

Wouldn't that be an Authority's Shield planet ? That's what I thought about, first.

Authority Shield worlds tend to be more or less convential war though, not just tanks.

And certianly nothing like the World of Tanks would be!

But yes the concept is a similar one.

[Force Lord]

Homura: Your "training," if it can be called that, also turns them into psychologically scarred Manchurian candidates. You forgot to mention that, though I'm sure it's in the fine print of that contract you want them to sign.

Nanoha: In any case, the Holy Empire's own civilian and military esper academies would be more than happy to accept students from the Nation. They will learn from among the best and greatest, including yours truly. In the meantime, though, since the League of Thought apparently refuses of partake in the Centralists' challenge, I will do so on their behalf, though a one-on-one fight would certainly not be fair. Instead, the Centrality will send ten of its best espers to face me. They will learn first-hand why I'm the White Devil and they're a bunch of black-garbed schmucks.

Kierger: "What did we ever did to you?"

[Simon_Jester]

Planet Tankhalla is permitted. Maybe we can place it near the Viking stars.

Kierger: "What's this about novice psykers? They need training? Have no fear, the Center of Special Abilities would like to help out! Our training is rigorous, but it follows a high standard respected by the cosmos! You just need to sign here, and here, and here...."

Homura: Your "training," if it can be called that, also turns them into psychologically scarred Manchurian candidates. You forgot to mention that, though I'm sure it's in the fine print of that contract you want them to sign.

He made the offer to Leagueofthoughtonians; I'm pretty sure they would turn the instructors into psychologically scarred Manchurian candidates... Leaguer abilities tend toward the high-end superheroic.

[Pay no attention to the smiling barefoot waif in the corner mumbling about Independents, naked singularities, the Human Potential Movement, and closed timelike curves]

Such a civilization would have an extremely short life expectancy, especially if a certain Puella Magi has her way. They will be cast back into the darkness from whence they came, but not before they see a bright light in their skies...

Homomuraphobia?

[Akhlut]

There's one thing you dumbshits should know! The taste of my Cuttlefish!

Hahaha! Seriously, you bunch of semen-sucking shitheads, why are you even dueling at all? To find out which one of you idiots can lick my taint? Cuz it sure as hell isn't to find out who is the best motherfucker in this universe, as all you fuckers should already know that Oderus Urungus is the sexiest, most badass thing in this whole stinking shitball known as existence.

So put that in your nitro-burning funny bongs and smoke it!

[Simon_Jester]

[Sound of oars running through the aether, rhythmically]

"ΒΥΛΛΣΙΘ!"

[run through auto-translator]

"BULLSHIT!"

[Shinn Langley Soryu]

Such a civilization would have an extremely short life expectancy, especially if a certain Puella Magi has her way. They will be cast back into the darkness from whence they came, but not before they see a bright light in their skies...

Homomuraphobia?

There was a degree of misogyny implied in the usage of the term "anti-Amazon," which I may have read into largely by virtue of me being sleep-deprived at the time of reading it. Now that I've had some sleep, I now realize that Crossroads, in all likelihood, did not intend for that. My apologies. (Besides, in the actual show, it's pretty much implied that Homura's either bisexual or an outright lesbian, but that's neither here nor there...)

In any case, in the event these anti-Amazons choose to wage war on the Holy Empire, Homura and (to a lesser degree) Kyoko would be the two Puellae Magi most in favor of retaliating with overwhelming force. The main difference in their approaches would be that Kyoko would prefer to smash the yaoi drones up close by personally leading several all-female Marine divisions in a planetary landing, while Homura would rather saturate-bomb the place with Tiberium rubiconium and start selling mining rights to the zaibatsu once the smoke clears.

[Simon_Jester]

Ah. Well, I gave this matter some thought in SDNW4, and the "anti-Amazon" seems logically to mean something more like "if one of these came into contact with an Amazon, both would spontaneously vanish in a particle-antiparticle reaction."

[modhat on]

Also, jeez, give the liquid rubiconium a break, okay? Your fixation on weapon systems is a bit... unbecoming, in that you're talking about this stuff more often than Shep and fusion bombs.

[Shinn Langley Soryu]

[modhat on]

Also, jeez, give the liquid rubiconium a break, okay? Your fixation on weapon systems is a bit... unbecoming, in that you're talking about this stuff more often than Shep and fusion bombs.

If that idea for an entire planet dedicated to tank battles for sport and entertainment actually becomes a thing, it may help exorcise those weapons systems demons from my head. I also approve of Rabid's idea for an esper exchange program between the Nation, the League of Thought, and the Holy Empire; just need to see if White Haven will sign off on it as well before proceeding. At least that particular idea would give me something else to write about other than hypothetical scenarios where Homura proposes nuking everyone who looks at her wrong and Kyoko proposes costly planetary invasions while the other Puellae Magi shake their heads in disappointment...

[Scottish Ninja]

Teams of mercenaries drive obsolete tanks to compete for fabulous cash prizes! Bring the kids! Half your admission price refunded if you are killed by a piece of flying debris or errant shell!

That, and Pay-Per-View, of course.

[Skywalker_T-65]

I too support Tankhalla...hmm...yeah, it can be next to the SPACE VIKINGS. Maybe they run it, who knows. Just keep an eye out for your friendly neighborhood terrorists (Seriously, Arcadia First practically runs the SPACE VIKINGS territory, Space Beowulf to the contrary).

Also, Arcadia looks worriedly on that exchange program since we lack any Psykers of our own.

'AND WHY DON'T WE HAVE ANY?!!' (Arcadian)

'Because your people never bothered learning and ours were wiped out?' (Furling)

*Arcadian wanders off to shoot some SPACE VIKINGS as a stress reliever*

[Rabid]

"Hey, don't fret over it. I'm sure if you were to offer good incentives some of our own psykers would likely accept to work for you..."

[Simon_Jester]

Question:

Why do we all say "psykers" these days? I'm not that big a Warhammer 40000 fan...

[Skywalker_T-65]

I don't know anything about 40K, I just use it because everyone else was. *shrugs*

[Simon_Jester]

Well, I usually use "psychics" or "espers" when not speaking specifically about Warhammer 40000.

[Rabid]

Psyker, psion, psychics, esper, magician...

That's the same idea of "people doing extra-normal things", I just find that "psyker" roll better when say write it.

Do people have other synonyms ?

[Panzersharkcat]

I use psionics and telepathy. It's the terms we used in that NationStates RP I do.

[Scottish Ninja]

"A wizard did it, and he used magic." I actually took the use of esper as a largely neutral term, and psyker as somewhat derogatory; I personally plan to have some people straight up call it magic, even if they can explain exactly what's going on: Niven's Corollary to Clarke's Law might be in effect, but that doesn't dictate language. Different effects and ways of doing things may be described with entirely different terminology as well, creating a muddled tangle of ideas, as is usual in the Volscian Confederacy.

[Vanas]

[Friend/partner/associate] non-hive creatures! From our [honey/electronic nectar] transfer vessels and from your own, we have heard much about your [attritonal/expansional/influential] non-collectively beneficial actions. As such, Bees feel that tensional difficulties may cause untoward loss of world-nectar and other units of transfer between your influenced spheres. [World/hive cluster] designate Gavotte has volunteered to provide storage for your sphere's world-nectars and other material units of transfer, from digital combs to paper units.

Bees can offer many valued means of security for your quantities of nectar, from digital comb security to physical defences based on the inability of large non-hexapedal creatures to operate the desired control systems and of course fit within said [secured/defended] areas. Furthermore, world-nectar will be stored within a [hive/city] of many billions of sting-equipped workers who will be glad to prevent [hostile/aggressor] entities from their attempts to [invade/defile] hive structures and the acquisition of [friend/partner/associate] world-nectar.

Bee Banking: The Sensible Option.

[Crossroads Inc.]

Such a civilization would have an extremely short life expectancy, especially if a certain Puella Magi has her way. They will be cast back into the darkness from whence they came, but not before they see a bright light in their skies...

Homomuraphobia?

There was a degree of misogyny implied in the usage of the term "anti-Amazon," which I may have read into largely by virtue of me being sleep-deprived at the time of reading it. Now that I've had some sleep, I now realize that Crossroads, in all likelihood, did not intend for that. My apologies. (Besides, in the actual show, it's pretty much implied that Homura's either bisexual or an outright lesbian, but that's neither here nor there...)

In any case, in the event these anti-Amazons choose to wage war on the Holy Empire, Homura and (to a lesser degree) Kyoko would be the two Puellae Magi most in favor of retaliating with overwhelming force. The main difference in their approaches would be that Kyoko would prefer to smash the yaoi drones up close by personally leading several all-female Marine divisions in a planetary landing, while Homura would rather saturate-bomb the place with Tiberium rubiconium and start selling mining rights to the zaibatsu once the smoke clears.

Yeah just to make things a bit more clear, since I was a bit out of it too last night I should have said "reverse" amazon... Since the stereotype of Amazon is all female society... I was thinking of all male all gay society.. Yeah as said it would have been terribly shallow and one dimensional

Of course the concept of "true" anit-amazon, where the meet in mutual annihilation, that made me "lol"

[Esquire]

That settles it: The Hellenes keep their talents in the Boisterous Bank of Bees.

[Skywalker_T-65]

'Bees...you want us to store our money with BEES?!!' (Furling)

'Why not? I liked the message personally. More secure anyway...' (Arcadian)

'AM I THE ONLY SANE ONE?!!' (Furling)

'Overreacting dude...' (Arcadian)

(On a serious note, I find the idea of BEE BANKERS funny.)

[Panzersharkcat]

Heh. I'd make an ad for the Bank of Bastet but I'd just be copying him. It'd probably just blather on about maintaining 100% reserves and guarantees of no bank runs.

[Simon_Jester]

Umeria will make no such ads, as it has no private banking sector and no particular interest in other people's bank accounts. Most of the government views finance as a convenient fiction invented to make the physical economy run smoothly.

This helps to explain why the fringe sectors are so underdeveloped...