The Vintage Decade (2140 - 2149) - Musings

[Kassiopeia]

A copy of a personal memorandum from Captain Googlie to your CEO Chaunk has come to the Junta's attention. Please disregard its contents. Captain Googlie has been cashiered for his intemperate actions.

And as regards your complaints re: the profit sharing arrangement, we are prepared to reduce the status of our relationship to a Truce if that fits better with your economic model

That'd certainly make things interesting!

[Googlie]

Well, we know that they are going to complete the PTS in 2144 (they'll never start an SP that they can't finish in 1 turn)

I say a priority should be infiltration of Morgan (we get Lal's - somewhat - through Zak's "back door" infiltration)
- even if we have to waste a probe team or 2 (ours and Morgan's) to get it

[Googlie]

Or, even better, maybe it's from Kassi saying:

A copy of a personal memorandum from Captain Googlie to your CEO Chaunk has come to the Junta's attention. By order of Lieutenant-Colonel Maniac, Chairman of the Junta, please disregard its contents. You may be interested to know that Captain Googlie has been cashiered for his intemperate actions.

And as regards your complaints re: the profit sharing arrangement, I have been instructed to pass on the Junta's response. We are prepared to reduce the status of our relationship to a Truce if that fits better with your economic model

Let's do it anyway. This suggests that there's been a powers struggle within the Junta between Maniac and me, the trial balloon (deep pact suggestion) has been floated, and may spark a couple of e-mails back to me. We've told them that we have Ecol Eng, so they know we can now ratchet up the minerals production, they know we can talk to any faction so trading our techs for juicy ones is a given, they know we have the AI infiltrated ..................

Let's see if they do any grovelling

G.

[Kassiopeia]

Hmm. Also consider PTS. That might make the Morganites jump so high in the power chart that we could plot the others to join forces to whomp the Morganites with us. Then strike a pact with the Gaians, wipe out the Hive, wipe out the Angels...

[Googlie]

Well, they just start new bases at size 3, and existing bases go to size 3 provided nutrients are adequate. they don't have Gene Splicing, so have somewhat restricted growth capability.

Personally, I think they are going for the PTS too soon

G.

[Googlie]

Kassi:

Why don't you pop into their embassy and post this:

A copy of a personal memorandum from Captain Googlie to your CEO Chaunk has come to the Junta's attention. By order of Lieutenant-Colonel Maniac, Chairman of the Junta, please disregard its contents. You may be interested to know that Captain Googlie has been cashiered for his intemperate actions.

And as regards your complaints re: the profit sharing arrangement, I have been instructed to pass on the Junta's response. We are prepared to reduce the status of our relationship to a Truce if that fits better with your economic model

and at the same time I'll change my profile at the Aimoo boards to be Captain instead of Lt. Colonel (and I'll take off the tag line "Recording Officer, etc"

[Kassiopeia]

Just to see their response, yes I'll go and post it.

[Snoddasmannen]

Wow, awesome!
Am I just imagining or are we kinda' tough diplomatically? I really like it, we should use our reputation.

And hey Googlie, welcome to the "send a PM and get demoted"-club :P Those pro-Gaians sure have a firm grip on the Junta.

Snd

[KrysiasKrusader]

Geeez Guys,

I didn't know my post would have such an effect for such a sudden reversal (bewilderment).

I had posted just to bring certain things to attention in response to other posts on page 1 of this thread.

Aren't you all being a tad (<- understatement) hasty?

How is this going to project a strong central leadership from the Junta? Don't bother answering, cause the answer is an obvious; not.

Or is there's something I don't get here...?

[Kassiopeia]

I did consider the chance that they'll see the Junta has a rather out of whack structure, something that might eb dangerous to deal with. However, I do have tried to project an image of a faction that will adhere to its word once it's made a promise. However, we haven't made any promises yet.

I'm sure we could do a reinstatement of Googlie's rank soon. Just trying to yank their chain to see what their response is. The only thing we've seriously "pulled back" on right now has been Googlie's apparent demotion, in other matters I believe we've acted with quite a stern resolve.

In fact, to them it's looking like our thought of a pact was originally a hasty decision, which we're now pulling back, since we're so... stern and resolved. It takes time to build such an image, though, and we haven't actually done anything erratic yet, so there wasn't much to lose to begin with. Our actual integrity will probably be brought to a true test later on.

[Googlie]

I think it's great, and smacks of firm Junta control by Maniac and his cronies ( )

Remember that I'm a latecomer to the Spartans, having originally signed up with Morgan, so they'll see it entirely in character to have me championing their cause within the Junta, and getting slapped down by Maniac, who, with Skanky Burns and GneralTacticus were the original Spartans.

So I don;t think at all it smacks of weakness or vaccillation, but rather of some power struggles within that has suddenly left a chill running down Morgan's spine.

The next step will be to throw overboard that Morgan Observer (forfeiting the income they're whingeing about anyway)

In fact, let's do that next turn (which Maniac should play - or I can if it's here before I leave on the 27th, but Maniac should post). Send them back the 4 ec's and don't give a map of the Hunter. Then they'll think we're planning an invasion !!!

[Kassiopeia]

I wonder if that's taking it a bit too far? I mean, damn.

What if we want to pact with Morgan after all?

[Googlie]

As other junta members post, I'm becoming more and more convinced that the real threat to us is Morgan. He's the one that's beaten me in PBEM's I've been in as Sparta (Mongoose most recently) as they can virtually get any SP instantly and can throw up Perim Defenses and then Tachyon Fields almost in 1 turn by their ability to generate thousands of ec's during sunburst activity (or even by stopping all research for 1 turn)

I was howled down in derision when I suggested that we could out-populate them (thru growth and conquest) for a diplomatic win, and I think we all agree that if we let them grow too strong then we'll never be able to defeat them militarily

The order of our Quest for World Domination (the QWD Statetgy option) might well turn out to be:

University
Peacekeepers
Morgan
Hive
Angels
Gaians,

might it not?

[KrysiasKrusader]

Now we're coming back full circle to what was said in the Foreign Office thread, so long ago.


Googlie:

Mongoose is an expert with Morgan. He's in the elite class of SMAC PBEM'ers, for lack of a better anology. Don't be too influenced by one game. As you said before, it was the rest of you that let him get that far any ways.

[Kassiopeia]

Heh. I'm really just going with the flow, but I have to admit that Morgan's a dangerous foe. A massive machine of energy that is impossible to counter if allowed to go unchecked for too long. I've seen this in While We Are Waiting, and AFAIK AndiD isn't even one of their most gifted Morganite players (?).