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phongn wrote:Bah, smash and grabs are so ... inelegant. Forced economic dependancy with eventual political amalgamation (of their own free will, of course ) is a much more elegant method of aquiring new lands that are already occupied.

Why bother with all that shit? The HAB simply stole a large chunk of Aquarian merchant fleet and took it home for its own use. No need to bother with all the long term commitment junk.

Good thing freighters are a dime a dozen... Private companies are nice... Anyone who wants to become a merchant can plunk down a few thousand credits and buy a ship...

Sea Skimmer wrote:Why bother with all that shit? The HAB simply stole a large chunk of Aquarian merchant fleet and took it home for its own use. No need to bother with all the long term commitment junk.

They'll probably want you to come to account for all that. I await with baited breath.

Pablo Sanchez wrote:

phongn wrote:Bah, smash and grabs are so ... inelegant. Forced economic dependancy with eventual political amalgamation (of their own free will, of course ) is a much more elegant method of aquiring new lands that are already occupied.

Elegance is a rapier and dinner jacket. My approach is gothic plate and a greataxe.

And mine, akin to bringing a shotgun to a melee duel.

Releasing xenomorphs into the slums of a heavily populated world, is like releasing the ebola virus into a Bejing open-air market.

Pablo Sanchez wrote:Elegance is a rapier and dinner jacket. My approach is gothic plate and a greataxe.

More like a Katana. Why go through the nonsense of parrying and such when you can chop their heads off in a single, swift and early stroke (our 'generous' economic aid ). Elegant, and quite vicious in its own way.

Of course, gothic plate and greataxes have their own place too

You also have a legitimate claim to the territory, because it was formerly your territory. Whereas I'm operating in the "I saw it first!" realm of expansion. O Pioneers!

Muwahaha.

The Terrans are apparently in a much more populated sector of space, where it is actually feasible to create satillite states. Almost nobody lives on the Norma Arm. Not much to subjugate...

You lose. OTOH, that does mean a lot of empty planets to colonize and Kzinform.

Pablo Sanchez wrote: They'll probably want you to come to account for all that. I await with baited breath.

The HAB isn't the one currently wrecking its fleet seizing planets.

Alyrium Denryle wrote:Releasing xenomorphs into the slums of a heavily populated world, is like releasing the ebola virus into a Bejing open-air market.

Ebola isn't airborne.

Alyrium Denryle wrote:Good thing freighters are a dime a dozen... Private companies are nice... Anyone who wants to become a merchant can plunk down a few thousand credits and buy a ship...

Not ones tens of kilometers long, which is what the HAB was primarily interesting in taking.

Alyrium Denryle wrote:Good thing freighters are a dime a dozen... Private companies are nice... Anyone who wants to become a merchant can plunk down a few thousand credits and buy a ship...

Presumably he grabbed real freighters instead of the penny-ante light frighters we see everywhere.

phongn wrote:

Alyrium Denryle wrote:Releasing xenomorphs into the slums of a heavily populated world, is like releasing the ebola virus into a Bejing open-air market.

Ebola isn't airborne.

I know. It is passed through physical contact and bodily fluid transfer... Think about how closely packed those markets are... In Urban China...

Sea Skimmer wrote:

Alyrium Denryle wrote:Good thing freighters are a dime a dozen... Private companies are nice... Anyone who wants to become a merchant can plunk down a few thousand credits and buy a ship...

Not ones tens of kilometers long, which is what the HAB was primarily interesting in taking.

Those... will take a bit longer to replace...

Sea Skimmer, I do not appreciate you controling the locations and actions of forces that are under my control.

Let's see. Xenomorph Queens are about as intelligent as a human in Alien Canon, yet hunt other species without end and regard for orders. Why should them being smarter make them do this less?

Because we have engineered them to be as such. Fact of the matter is, we engneered them to be fully aware and understanding of the exact position they put us in , and we understand that which they are in.

They have, in this STGOD turned over a new leaf. At least the ones that we altered, and their progeny.

The point is, they are, mine to control. And Sea Skimmer is violating that control in violation of this STGODs rules. It is akin to me taking control over his fleets.

Alyrium Denryle wrote:Because we have engineered them to be as such. Fact of the matter is, we engneered them to be fully aware and understanding of the exact position they put us in , and we understand that which they are in.

They have, in this STGOD turned over a new leaf. At least the ones that we altered, and their progeny.

The point is, they are, mine to control. And Sea Skimmer is violating that control in violation of this STGODs rules. It is akin to me taking control over his fleets.

You unleash a force with well-known capabilities and tendencies on the STGOD, never make any posts dealing with what they are doing, and get pissy when someone assumes they're acting as they are known to act? If you actually made posts and detailed their actions. But you've not been making any indications of how far the infestation spreads.

I should point out in any invasion post, you take control of other's forces to an extent. People capture Black Alliance ships all the time.

SirNitram wrote:I should point out in any invasion post, you take control of other's forces to an extent. People capture Black Alliance ships all the time.

Oh, yeah, in case anyone's wondering about what the Quaynar Firestar that my character just got looks like, here's a preliminary sketch:

SirNitram: Planet destroying weaponry. I think gravitonic warheads tends to do bad things to planets, especially when fired in volleys.

And luckily I have no embassy of the Azegarz in my major city.

SirNitram wrote:

Alyrium Denryle wrote:Because we have engineered them to be as such. Fact of the matter is, we engneered them to be fully aware and understanding of the exact position they put us in , and we understand that which they are in.

They have, in this STGOD turned over a new leaf. At least the ones that we altered, and their progeny.

The point is, they are, mine to control. And Sea Skimmer is violating that control in violation of this STGODs rules. It is akin to me taking control over his fleets.

You unleash a force with well-known capabilities and tendencies on the STGOD, never make any posts dealing with what they are doing, and get pissy when someone assumes they're acting as they are known to act? If you actually made posts and detailed their actions. But you've not been making any indications of how far the infestation spreads.

I should point out in any invasion post, you take control of other's forces to an extent. People capture Black Alliance ships all the time.

A ship capture is one thing, but taking control of what amounts to part of my armed forces and having them attack another power, is out of line.

I posted in the beginning of the STGOD that they were sentient, and went through the queens thought proceses in game.

Now, we can get around that simply with "he falsified the report" such things would not be hard to do....

Oh, someone asked a while ago about antiplanet and WMD capabilities of the TSC; in addition to simple BDZs, we carry chemical weapons at the Century level, and own large stores of tactical biological weapons (short-lived viruses and bacteria, fast acting and with low or no contagious properties) and small stores of Moax planetkiller plagues, designed to be seeded on a world and eradicate the population. Moax plagues have been used on populated worlds before, and are quite devastating, but may not be as effective against industrialsed worlds with outside support and modern medicine.

Pretty much, we will stick to conventional combat (well, as conventional as combat can get- the TSC carries chemical and tac-nuke weaponry at the Century level.)

The Black Alliance is very much against planetkilling. It is, after all, so hard to recover loot from an obliterated world. However, for times of emergencies, they have normal Base Delta Zero operations, and a full crash-brake from a Long Haul can be used to scour a planet of anything resembling organic life as the energy surge lights the atmosphere on fire.

SirNitram wrote:The Black Alliance is very much against planetkilling. It is, after all, so hard to recover loot from an obliterated world. However, for times of emergencies, they have normal Base Delta Zero operations, and a full crash-brake from a Long Haul can be used to scour a planet of anything resembling organic life as the energy surge lights the atmosphere on fire.

The UTR can not confirm or deny any rumors that it may or may not have retained a small stockpile of Super Light Accelerated Missiles.

OOC: In other words, if you use planetkillers on me I have them. If you stay conventional, then I don't.

EDIT: Does the N'Hreah Alliance Treaty Organization still exist Phong?

The PRC will not confirm or deny on the existance of any special weaponry recovered from NR or NRMD ships or stations.

(IOW, yes, I have a few Little Doctors.)