SDN Worlds 4 Commentary Thread IV

[Shroom Man 777]

To be fair, I'm glad to have an excuse to write about naked men traveling through space by using hyperspace paddles.

[Chaotic Neutral]

Also, the Elysians judge the MEH-ites to be unmanly.

Mites? Really?

I was trying to make it a funny acronym, but Jesus Christ, is there anything it doesn't work for?

MEH, MEHN, MEH-ites

Anything more?

[RogueIce]

The Shinra Republic extends greetings to the MEH!

[DarthShady]

You guys have been busy. And I see we have some new... guests.

Alliances against The Swarm? I expected something like that sooner or later. Mayabird, I'm assuming this diplomatic contact you had planned will happen during Shroom's BEEF event?

Oh and Mang, Elysians.

[Mayabird]

Oh yes, there will be a muchness of happenings at BEEEF.

Since I haven't in-story said anything to anyone officially about the evil gods, I'd have to assume that post is in some goddamn unreal time after news started getting out (probably in August). Maybe from Umeria? We haven't written that bit yet. Everything's in some mix of July and August.

[Steve]

And just to make it official... Simon_Jester is Wilkens' replacement on my Minion Mod Council.

[Simon_Jester]

I always wanted to be a minion.

[Chaotic Neutral]

I have given my fleet names for all of my ships, pictures for every ship, added fighters and bombers to my list, and fixed all errors in my fleet count!

I am still using ships that I could stab you to death with, but now they are original designs, and have better descriptions.

Now to writing that diplomatic response.

[Steve]

Hey, CN?

The Leader - 1 per 20$ - 1 - 20$ x 4 Prototype Equipment = 80$

No. Just no.

[Chaotic Neutral]

What wrong with one person that can take on 2 million elite troops?

[Steve]

Because I've explicitly forbidden people from being that powerful, that's what's wrong.

[Chaotic Neutral]

I'm joking, I already replaced it with more fighters and bombers.

[Simon_Jester]

Aww. I liked the idea of your Leader being so fat it takes a 160$ troopship just to carry her from one planet to the next.

[Kartr_Kana]

The Hiigaran Clans Navy page has been updated and now has pretty pictures: http://worldsofsdn.wikia.com/wiki/Hiigaran_Clans_Navy

[Steve]

To anyone curious as to how Sir James has the full note from the MEH to the Chamarrans.... he is one of the galaxy's most capable spymasters. So the reply is only that he got it "from an asset".

(For what it's worth I imagine that UN Intelligence and the CEID, at the very least, have also acquired the note in full. I'd be disappointed in them if the Collective, the Bragulans, and the Haruhiists haven't gotten it as well.)

[Chaotic Neutral]

Surely someone must have espers sentenced to death or death by torture they would sell me. Or am I just crazy?

I would rather not need to purchase from Shepistan, as the guilt of prisoners are... questionable.

[PeZook]

Surely someone must have espers sentenced to death or death by torture they would sell me. Or am I just crazy?

I would rather not purchase from Shepistan.

We'll give you ours if you give us yours.

[Darkevilme]

Danged treacherous kitties in our diplomatic service leaking documents. Mela and Tia will have to do some serious housecleaning should they ever hear of this.

As for the request for Espers. The Hierarchy has multiple reasons for refusing.

1. As out of touch as they are with the galactic consensus even house Kithandra knows that selling people to an unknown government for experimentation is not good press.

2. It makes their protests at humans selling kidnapped Chamarrans to the Collectors for experimentation a little hypocritical.

3. The Guild would be up in arms and when you're currently trying to hunt down terrorists and terrorist sympathizers the last thing you want is for your Espers to go on strike.

[PeZook]

Danged treacherous kitties in our diplomatic service leaking documents. Mela and Tia will have to do some serious housecleaning should they ever hear of this!

Don't worry, the guy is wanted for "sex by surprise" by authorities of Sweden, so you might get the UN to extradite him on espionage charges!

[Chaotic Neutral]

We'll give you ours if you give us yours.

A few dozen prisoners sentenced to death or death by torture? Sure! If you want esper prisoners, I'm afraid that due to them getting their power recently and being unable to control them, we can not jail or execute them for their accidents.

[Chaotic Neutral]

"WE HAVE INTERCEPTED AND DECRYPTED YOUR DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE TO THE CHAMARRAN EMPIRE

THE COLLECTIVE MAY HAVE WHAT YOU NEED

WE REQUEST A MEETING"

Is that directed towards me? If it is, how do I know who and where to send a response if the vessel left?

[Siege]

The Collector vessel only left after your reply was received. As for the rest, the Collectors seem to operate very much on a "don't call us we'll call you" basis.

[RogueIce]

(For what it's worth I imagine that UN Intelligence and the CEID, at the very least, have also acquired the note in full. I'd be disappointed in them if the Collective, the Bragulans, and the Haruhiists haven't gotten it as well.)

Well, the MEH did send me a pretty much identical message. So I could easily share it with my Haruhiist allies if they don't have a copy.

[Chaotic Neutral]

What's the point of sending diplomatic communications to a specific group if everyone else is going to read it anyway?

[RogueIce]

What's the point of sending diplomatic communications to a specific group if everyone else is going to read it anyway?

I wouldn't share in general. The only way I would is if they got that incomplete message the Hiigarans were passing around. We could then show them the full message (well, what can be reasonably interpreted to be the full message) so it won't look as bad to them.

And I was nice enough to note that we're not rude enough to generally attempt to decrypt diplomatic messages that we may chance to intercept.