Sparta Command HQ

[GeneralTacticus]

/me walks slowly down the line of cadets, eventually reaching Sergeant Jamski.

/me sniffs.

If you're going to smoke those, Sergeant, wear a space-suit. I have no desire to damage my lungs any further by breathing in your smoke.

[Trithemius]

Originally posted by DeathByTheSword
btw would be fun...if after awhile (when we have enough units)we each be assigned one unit we can control...? this well make the roleplaying a lot more fun...you can control where you unit goes to as long as it doesnt cause something bad for the faction. if your unit is destroyed you will be the only survivor and after getting out of sickbay get a new unit assign?

could even make battle report per unit if you want to...and the rest of the units will be controlled by high command

This is a neat idea. I am sure that the number-crunchers will have a fit, but I sure like it...not that I am a Spartan or anything....

[Frankychan]

*runs to get uniform*

*Gets back into formation*

"Sir, Yes sir! Stupid grin wiped off my face, sir. I am a lean, mean fighting Spartan machine. Security detail reporting in sir!"

[MrWhereItsAt]

Guard duty. What fun THAT would be. Of course most of the time you could slack off and visit the.... houses of questionable morals that follow soldiers around like stink on sh*t.

[Trithemius]

Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt
Guard duty. What fun THAT would be. Of course most of the time you could slack off and visit the.... houses of questionable morals that follow soldiers around like stink on sh*t.

The commander of the garrison could always abuse their position and take control of the bases' construction queues and worker allocation patterns? I kinda like the sound of that!

[DeathByTheSword]

of course most units will be gaurd duty...but we are the spartans...we can always go out and explore strange new world...and go where no man has gone before

[GeneralTacticus]

And kill things, of course. That's the important bit.

[Frankychan]

Guard duty is the first line of defense for security of the State.

That's something that I don't mind at all.

[DeathByTheSword]

still it would be fun to have such a thing...or atleast when we go to war assign players to units...or something like that

[Trithemius]

Originally posted by Frankychan
Guard duty is the first line of defense for security of the State.

That's something that I don't mind at all.

Just make sure that any base that Frankychan is stationed at doesn't start mysteriously making Punishment Spheres.

[GeneralTacticus]

Well, when it came to war, we could go further than that - give members 'theatre commands' or command of army groups, under which they control all units in a certain area, or just a certain group of units, and they're given objectives by the High Command (e.g. 'take this base with minimum losses', 'drive back the invasion', etc), which they carry out as they see fit.

Of course, we would need to leave in a provision which would allow the supreme commander to overrule orders if they were really stupid, and when making big, intricate plans (e.g. a mass chop-and-drop that requires a series of abse captures in a certain order), unit commanders would have to give up a lot of independence.

[Frankychan]

Any base that is under my jurisdiction would make Martial Law seem like a vacation.

Punishment Spheres? Shoot, you must be mistaken! Those are....Fun spheres, yeah that's it.

[Jamski]

If you're going to smoke those, Sergeant, wear a space-suit. I have no desire to damage my lungs any further by breathing in your smoke.

Sir! All serving Spartan Soliders have the right to bear arms and to smoke cigars publically, sir! And to drive jeeps and trucks without a licence or a seatbelt sir! Liberty or Death, sir!

/me pushes the sunglasses up onto his shaved head *

Although I could go and smoke it over on the other side of the parade ground in the sun, sir...

I've been thinking about our values...

Obviously we are a bit paradoxial, combining strict millitary discipline with a strong individual "free warrior" ethos. I'm imagining these communites in the Rockies that refuse to pay taxes, dress in combat fatuiges, drive jeeps and carry automatic weapons to the dinner table.

Kind of "No one tells me what to do... except the colonel... and the captain... but that's because I RESPECT them, not because the government tells me what to do!"

-Jam

[GeneralTacticus]

Smoke them wherever you bloody well like, Sergeant, but don't do it near me. Is that understood?

[Illuminatus]

A fight already!

/me grabs popocorns

Of course, you should try a peace solution first.