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Benevolant Neglect is probably the best policy when dealing with conquered worlds.

By the way people. I just want to avoid a problem that we had last STGOD and we seem to be begining to have this one.

You spell my nation this way.

Monacora.

If you use it in adjectival form it's:

Monacoran.

Thanks in advance, and sorry for being so nitpicky.

Benevolant neglect eah? Doesn't sound too bad for the population, but how long does it take before the planet's industry starts cranking out goods useable by the new sovereign power? In the case of Jormungandr I might go as far to say that it could have shipyards.

Jormungandr could be useful. It will supply raw materials and cheap foodstuffs, mostly, as well as those exotic metals not usually found on asteroids.

Ousters prefer their own shipyards.

Thirdfain wrote:Jormungandr could be useful. It will supply raw materials and cheap foodstuffs, mostly, as well as those exotic metals not usually found on asteroids.

Ousters prefer their own shipyards.

And if it would have it's own shipyards ala an Asgard type, they wouldn't be terribly compatible with Ouster tech. I really don't think a colony would have the capacity for military type yards nor baseline military tech.

Exactly. I wrote the system as having a fleet of capital ships, but I assume that the planet's defenders wouldn't have allowed the shipyards to fall into Ouster hands.

All in all, it sounds like a fairly trivial piece of galactic real-estate to go to war over.

Thirdfain wrote:Exactly. I wrote the system as having a fleet of capital ships, but I assume that the planet's defenders wouldn't have allowed the shipyards to fall into Ouster hands.

They might have had them that doesn't mean they were home built. Most third world countries simply buy their capital units from some one else. As like as not they would likely have simply bought them.

But what ever. I agree either way they wouldn't likely let capital ship yards fall into enemy hands.

InnocentBystander wrote:All in all, it sounds like a fairly trivial piece of galactic real-estate to go to war over.

It probably is. But the Asgard are a bit touchy about people grabbing off anything they consider theirs. And any one with a connection to Floaters is likely to make them doubly edgy.

Besides, this is an STGOD all things considered this is one of the wars that has more of a point to it.

Besides, this is an STGOD all things considered this is one of the wars that has more of a point to it.

Not if I can help it. Wouldn't it be nice if- just once!- diplomacy prevaled in an STGOD?

Thirdfain wrote: Not if I can help it. Wouldn't it be nice if- just once!- diplomacy prevaled in an STGOD?

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE MUST HAVE WAR, CARNAGE AND BLOODSHED FOR A THOUSAND YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!

::::Passes out::::

Alyrium:

Hey, I'm sorry, but after your last post, this HAD to happen.

Thirdfain wrote:Alyrium:

Hey, I'm sorry, but after your last post, this HAD to happen.

I know... I set myself up for it... But they are being delt with... We are rather brutal when our kindness is repayed with terrorism.

Summoning a Angel is your idea of brutal?

Granted it was an inspired move, unless the preachers calls it a disguised devil, qouting how Satan assumes a pleasing shape, etc...

Force Declaration:
(Cleared with Sanchez beforehand.)

Blackeyes

Elite Ouster agents, the Blackeyes work in teams of ten. They are telepaths- products of the rare naturally occuring telepath gene. As the Hajr agents studied and prepared for the Diaspora, the variety of arcane and telepathic adversaries were noted. A countermeasure was created. Blackeyes teams link their minds and wills, reaching out and shutting down the ability of either one strong mage or a small group of weak mages. They crush the will of the caster, closing him off to the energy fields from which magicians draw their powers. They are trained extensively in a variety of weapons and infiltration techniques. Some blackeyes wear power-armor and can be deployed with conventional forces, and others, like the ones on Ix'agal, are covert agents.

The effect is short-lived- minutes at absolute best.

The existence of the Blackeyes, or naturally occuring Ouster telepaths, is not common knowledge.

frigidmagi wrote:Summoning a Angel is your idea of brutal?

Granted it was an inspired move, unless the preachers calls it a disguised devil, qouting how Satan assumes a pleasing shape, etc...

No... Dragonfear is what I call brutal...

Telepathic Scanning is brutal

Public execution will be used if I am pressed.

Hrmm-

All I can say, is-

"Does this look like a 'Q' to you?"

Crowd's been dispersed already, Rogue- In a not particulary useful fashion, but it's been dispersed.

Damn, but you guys posted a lot. When I started, my post was lined up to be the first one on page 14, not the eighth or ninth.

-shrug-

It's a riot, things happen fast : )

Alyrium, Best-case scenario, you are looking at months of heavy unrest, followed by years of quiter pacification and acculturation. One-Shot posts won't clean up this problem.

Thirdfain wrote:Alyrium, Best-case scenario, you are looking at months of heavy unrest, followed by years of quiter pacification and acculturation. One-Shot posts won't clean up this problem.

I am posting long term trends when I post those...

-shrug-

Don't. At least spend some time solving the problem, forgodssakes.

Okay, howzabout the short term? I have troops on the ground now.

Sounds good. But this is gonna look a lot like Iraq, fellas- How many troops totall do the two of you have on-planet?

Keep in mind that the Covenant was fanatical as shit. You will not find that they are suddenly an economic powerhouse, or that they are turning against what they have been tought their whole lives any time soon.

LOL!

No Ousters here, Tex- think we would send people who were genetically Ousters out where they would get captured? These ladies and gentlemen are all prime Ix'agal genetic stock- or at least seem that way. Besides, the chances of catching an elite agent alive are very low- and I don't have many on planet, perhaps 2 Blackeyes teams and a couple dozen Hajr agents...