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  • A dull year, you say?
    Well, we'll see about that...

    Among other interesting things coming up, we're about to have a real scandal with the Peacekeepers. Braddock will come down on Christopher like a ton of bricks, not because he blew up some Spartans and shoved them into that rover, but because he has the nerve to claim that his atrocities are not in violation of the U.N. Charter. When you say something like that, you've clearly lost sight of what the Charter is all about, and you're certainly not a Peacekeeper...

    I'm being pretty thorough here... been digging through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to figure out how many articles Colonel Christopher actually violated... -Not few!

    Oh, and about U.N. Bureaucracy... well, sheeez! Have you ever tried to look up anything on the U.N. web site? The place is a JUNGLE!!!! It's not hard to find relevant info, there's just so many charters and treaties and conventions and commissions and resolutions and declarations, and so on and on and on... If you try to get all the relevant documents, you won't get to use them for anything because you'll NEVER get done reading them!

    If you don't believe me, check it out for yourself at www.un.org

    Actually, I think you could kill people with some of these documents! I've spent about an hour digging into the matter today and I've never seen so much political, diplomatic and legal mumbo-jumbo in my life before! It almost seems like there's hardly anything plain and simple that doesn't end up being turned into a 10 page list of sections and sub-sections, each repeating what the first one said, but approaching the matter from a slightly different angle...

    There are some honest exceptions though.
    Also, there are some articles in here that really kick ass!

    For instance, article 104 of the U.N. Charter states that "the Organization shall enjoy in the territory of each of its Members such legal capacity as may be necessary for the exercise of its functions and the fulfilment of its purposes"

    In other words: They can basically do whatever the hell they think is necessary under the present circumstances at any given time/place, and as long as they don't violate their own Charter, no one can bust them for it...

    Hmmm, interesting...
    "Politics is to say you are going to do one thing while you're actually planning to do someting else - and then you do neither."
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    • On a different subject, my character Kyla Johnson is actually a pretty good example of how things tend to take on a life of their own in this kind of story threads...
      I originally imagined her as a nice but otherwise fairly ordinary girl who ended up in the army because she had the ill fortune of being born in the same world as some rather nasty Spartans... I originally thought she'd look pretty decent but not all that special, and that she'd probably have brown hair...
      She arrives at the front, along comes Sprayber with a Spartan sergeant of his... -and all of a sudden I discover that my character Kyla is not only blonde, but also the most beautiful woman he's ever seen...

      Well, what can I say, it wasn't quite the way I planned it at the start, but I rather like her this way. Things do tend to take on a life of their own...
      "Politics is to say you are going to do one thing while you're actually planning to do someting else - and then you do neither."
      -- Saddam Hussein

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      • 150 Posts Per Thread

        150 Posts Per Thread is still the maximum.

        You can set how many posts per page you want in the "control panel"

        We already have a character thread- I thought?

        Oh well- I'll bump it up, but should I create a seperate
        "Character Development" thread?
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        • Is Cyber still around? I need to do something with both the cult and Alexandro Demeneras. If he isn't, then I'll go on and do what I am planning. I'll wait a few days though. I really need to get rid of them if he isn't going to use them.
          Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We are evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that. --Saul Tigh

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          • I've seen Cyber show up as online a couple of times in the past few weeks, but I haven't spoken to him and he hasn't spoken to me. Haven't heard from him since (I'm assuming) he got mad at me when I started hinting about trade sanctions...
            "Politics is to say you are going to do one thing while you're actually planning to do someting else - and then you do neither."
            -- Saddam Hussein

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            • Re: 150 Posts Per Thread

              Originally posted by DarkCloud
              150 Posts Per Thread is still the maximum.
              actually, the limit is now 500
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              • Wow!
                Does that solve our little "problem" or what?
                By the way, I've finished the little story I started yesterday...
                (in the main thread...)
                Last edited by Guardian; June 5, 2001, 12:00.
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                • not really as we can only go from 30 to 50 posts....can't set it to 40 :P oh well......... 40 posts = 2.5 game months. and the game year is comprise of 10 game months.

                  -LordLMP

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                  • Originally posted by DarkCloud
                    Well... That certainly is much longer than it used to be- why the change?
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                    • Well... That certainly is much longer than it used to be- why the change?
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                      • Are the Gains active now? How about the Cult? Spartans might enjoy watching the cult get kicked around by the believers. Sit back and build for tomorrow.
                        Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We are evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that. --Saul Tigh

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                        • The Gaians are active...I think! I'll do my best with them - just finished reading Centauri Dawn which should give me some insights into what their culture is all about.

                          Is the Believer/Cult war idea alright with everyone? I just thought it was in keeping with SMAC - Miriam does tend to go around declaring war on everyone and everything in sight....
                          "Love the earth and sun and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown . . . reexamine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency" - Walt Whitman

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                          • Well, it seems somewhat unclear yet what the Peacekeepers will do... if it's just Miriam and the Prophet bashing on each other, we just might stay out of it, but if they start stomping on the Gaians, there will be hell to pay!
                            "Politics is to say you are going to do one thing while you're actually planning to do someting else - and then you do neither."
                            -- Saddam Hussein

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                            • Believer-Cult War

                              I believe this is okay- but is anyone playing the Believers or the Cult of Planet? (Sorry I was gone... can't keep track of everything) But- truly is anyone playing either country?
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                              • Sounds like a good idea. The Spartans wouldn't mind helping the believers in some small way, not troops though. The Spartans and Cult are still enemies and I doubt that anything can be done to change that except for fungelboy to be overthrown. Spartans would urge the belivers to refrain from dragging the gians into any war. As far as being active I think the war would be told from the gians perspective since the other two are currently without a full time poster.
                                Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We are evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that. --Saul Tigh

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