SDN Worlds 4 Commentary Thread VI

[Zor]

We are not enslaving any Bloaters. We'll call it...exercise regimens! that's the ticket.

Nova Atlantis endorses these claims and states that the MEHites will join these freely, without any fuss and no guards will be required. After they have spent a brief time under the care of the UWC's strategic rehabilitation forces.

Zor

[Ryan Thunder]

My Avenger-types must kill a bigass MEHN ship. A squadron of seven of them ought to be sufficient.

Go for it. Write it up.

I am working on it, I'm just pointing it out so that whoever's organizing the general bigpost doesn't box my stuff out of that.

[Shroom Man 777]

If Rogue was as eager to post geostigma ridden albinos as he was pink pony ninjas in that post, all our problems would've been solved.

(PS. We need pony aliens!)

There, a reply to the Pfhor. I have no idea what the last bit means, but I imagine that's what North Koreanoids would say in their diplomatic messages.

Now I have to work on the MEHstomp, responding to Solarian yankee capitalist space pirates, and stuff.

[DarthShady]

I see you guys have been busy.

I've been gone for a while but now I'm back, The Swarm no longer sleeps. First of, the story post I just made(haven't written anything in quite a while) should clear up some things about the OVERMIND, as I noticed that many of you had the wrong idea. My fault really. Should have explained it better from the start. I haven't read everything you guys have written, but I skimmed most of it, good stuff. I apologize if I didn't answer to people's attempts at communication with the Swarm, I will rectify that now. Also, anybody who has business with me, send a PM or something, and we'll get the ball rolling.

EDIT: If there is something of importance that requires my attention, please let me know. Skimming is not as good as reading everything.

[White Haven]

Oh dear. So, about that rimward/spinward border security...

[Shroom Man 777]

Yes.

[Simon_Jester]

You guys are going to love War Plan Yellow, as portrayed in a post I am now planning.

[RogueIce]

My Avenger-types must kill a bigass MEHN ship. A squadron of seven of them ought to be sufficient.

Go for it. Write it up.

I am working on it, I'm just pointing it out so that whoever's organizing the general bigpost doesn't box my stuff out of that.

Oh, uh, all fifteen of your Avenger destroyers were blown up in the first thirty seconds of the battle. It is of vital importance to the continuing storyline, too. Sorry about that, dude.

...

Okay, I'm just fucking with you.

You guys are going to love War Plan Yellow, as portrayed in a post I am now planning.

But why are you going to war with Tianguo?

[Shroom Man 777]

Oh, and the Wilkonians have landed on Ryan's fortified planets too.


Anyway, the OMINOUS will set up shop in Farthing and attack at June 2.

[RogueIce]

Actually, in seriousness Ryan, you're at Alpha Centauri. So your guys haven't fired any shots yet. Once Wolf 359 has secured itself (space-wise, at least) a bunch of that fleet will jump to AC and we'll just hammer the fuck out of them.

It'll probably be a bit more bloody. By then, the Inhumanists will have hit Xena and blocked Sol (at the minimum) I'd imagine, so they'll know no help is coming. So the fleet will likely stay where the system defenses can support them and it'll be a tough fight.

But that comes later. I have a busy weekend ahead, it looks like.

[Shroom Man 777]

I'll take a couple more set up posts, and then launch Xena/Sol.

[Simon_Jester]

You guys are going to love War Plan Yellow, as portrayed in a post I am now planning.

But why are you going to war with Tianguo?

Tianguo is War Plan White. War Plan Yellow is totally different.

Oh, and the Wilkonians have landed on Ryan's fortified planets too.

Nay! This time, his incendiary lazors will TRIUMPH over the MEH's heavy armor!

[Simon_Jester]

[double post, delete please]

[Tanasinn]

I thought Shroom might like this. Makes me wish I used carriers.

[Agent Sorchus]

I'm going to try and get an Eoghan perspective post from Farthing out that shows the busy bodies of the Engineering Corps.

[Simon_Jester]

Can anyone find a decent picture of an infested terran battlecruiser? All I can find are these wimpy little thumbnails.

Yes, I know in-game there's no such thing. Someone must have drawn one at some point, it's too obvious an idea not to.

[KlavoHunter]

I'm going to try and get an Eoghan perspective post from Farthing out that shows the busy bodies of the Engineering Corps.

Just don't get uniformly *too* busy with all the Farthing Peoples as if they have identical wants and needs. They are living mostly primitively on these worlds by choice, so they're not busy designing, cranking out, and crewing top-end warships to fend off Orks and worrying about the price of rubiconium from Tianguo and so on and so forth. Bos was a nearly clean sweep. Lepus had the chance to fight back. Quilbore was untouched. They might have differing views of the universe afterwards, and might accept or reject your assistance to differing levels.

[Shroom Man 777]

Can anyone find a decent picture of an infested terran battlecruiser?

Zis? http://calibermengsk.com/starcraft/weekly/bc.png

Tanasinn, that is a beautiful ship.

Sorchus: Maybe your engineering thing can mention Lapine "waterships" trying to put out the cooking oil fires the MEH machines ignited.

[Agent Sorchus]

That is up. $50 of Gunboats were lent out at the last minute in addition to planned deployment. They have no carriers and probably suffered a lot of wear on the trip, though they might have (and most likely did have) a yacht carrier on hand to refuel them during it will not be present for the final battle.

[Simon_Jester]

[modhat on]

The gunboats can't make the trip under their own power, period. The boats must be hauled aboard some ship- even if just a big honking cargo vessel. If they are hauled aboard a cargo vessel, this should come with a price in deployability- the cargo ship has to offload the gunboats at a port and prep them for combat, rather than being able to launch them directly into battle like a proper carrier. Similarly, the gunboats would have to be reloaded onto the cargo ship with a similar process, rather than being able to 'land' on it as they could on a carrier.

In short, the functional equivalent of shipping fighter jets aboard a freighter (possibly in pieces) rather than aboard an aircraft carrier.

[modhat off]

[Shroom Man 777]

Unless if it is a surplus Tianguonese spaceboat bought by some Feelipeenis and sailed across the Badlands shoal spaces?

[Simon_Jester]

Unless if it is a surplus Tianguonese spaceboat bought by some Feelipeenis and sailed across the Badlands shoal spaces?

The Eoghans only sacrifice to Cthulhu, not to Neptridon.

[Pollux]

Quick question to the mods: do I still get to post military expansion for 3400?

EDIT: Pollux, I did give you props once- the Elysians know of you!

"Where even rumor does not go, I have heard whispers of... ferocious barbalien empires whose three-eyed, glaring overlords are so fierce and uncommunicative that none may say what transpires within their borders..."

Glorious!

[Agent Sorchus]

[modhat on]

The gunboats can't make the trip under their own power, period. The boats must be hauled aboard some ship- even if just a big honking cargo vessel. If they are hauled aboard a cargo vessel, this should come with a price in deployability- the cargo ship has to offload the gunboats at a port and prep them for combat, rather than being able to launch them directly into battle like a proper carrier. Similarly, the gunboats would have to be reloaded onto the cargo ship with a similar process, rather than being able to 'land' on it as they could on a carrier.

In short, the functional equivalent of shipping fighter jets aboard a freighter (possibly in pieces) rather than aboard an aircraft carrier.

[modhat off]

Why? You give me no reason why you are objecting to a long endurance run with tanker support rather than doing things you're way, and I am a strong believer in that a mod for such a social game should have good reason before he goes into official mode. I am not being a dick with this story post and it is part of a setup for Top Gun shenanigans that I only didn't do already for the sake of the mood of the last post.

Secondly, what is the real difference between a bunch of gunships going out unarmed and carrying extra fuel tanks with a tanker/ micro carrier to be deployed dirt-side; and shipping a bunch of gunships 'conventionally' to be deployed dirtside? None that I can see. So I ask you, let me tell my tale my way, you can tell yours your way.

Also I don't want a long argument that detracts from effort in the story, and that is all I can see coming from your ruling or a similar ruling in the future.

I might change it if you give me a good reasoning. As it is I'm keeping it unmod'ed and hope others use it that way.

Also so long as you are willing to throw on the Mod hat, can you arrange a NCP roll for Formless? So long as it is mod official, he is rather ready to go.

[Shroom Man 777]

I think Sorchus' gunboat thing is cool. Think of it as unarmed fighters escorted with a tanker, flying halfway across the world. What difference does it make? They're vulnerable, the closest rearm and resupply is... nowhere, if they get into a combat situation they're screwed, and they have no mothercraft to land on, and they're entirely unable to attack anyway. In that state, in transit, their worth as gunships is zilch. And their mothercraft are deprived of vessels.