Beyond Alpha Centauri::: Discussion Thread 3

[Sovereign]

Phew....

(Goes LMP style at Lonestar)



just kidding bro...

Anyway, I just posted my post in the story thread. Whats Ian's reaction to my comminque to Omar Bradley concerning comm frequencies for treaty?

FC, the Skipfire recieved the tranmission as well as Yang's encrypted authenicity order.

Okay I'm back in the groove, so buckle up boys

[Mr. President]

Rebel robots sounds like fun. I always thought it would be interesting to give robots guns and program them to kill the enemy, but of course you have to worry about what happens when they get fed up with working conditions or something. I'm inclined to think that good human soldiers could beat good robot soldiers, unless of course you have polysentient AI (which, judging from Sovereign's last post, there seems to be).

[Frankychan]

Sovereign-

Robotic Civil Wars sound interesting. Think I'll get our little alliance evolving more...

Cybergod-

You caught Mr. Sym??? How dare those damn Saturnians! Well Cybergod, the Hive hasn't had much contact with the Saturn "Republic" but I think now we will! How are we going to resolve this little incident?

History Guy-

You have any comments? Oh, yeah Mr. Ku's boys can come into Hive space but we will need to discuss this further.

General Tacticus-

Pushing it back 50 yrs. sounds alright w/me, so long as you change your timeline.

[Mellian]

Mellian-

Well...I've been waiting since the beginning to see you post! I kinda want to see the Pirates point of view on all the recent events going on. As for the little question I asked a looong time ago:

first of all, I am one of the House Managers for the week, me and another of my group staying home to clean the place and make the food and so on. So, I can get busy, especially when the other gets way to stress out easily and nags to stop goofing off and work... even thought she been on the comp more often then i did today. second, the computer here sucks...under Win95, has HD problems and keeps crashing... and then the internet connection keeps disconnecting and not work for a bit.... and for some reason, the internet connection doesn't like Apolyton Forums to much as 2/3 of the times i try to get here, it disconnects. I also still haven't finish the story.... 1/3 into the fourth page now. Also have to figure out to work the scenerio out in the intro for the Pirates... and then there is still the TAF stuff i want to do too.... which i slowy writing down on paper so i can later quickly type it on the comp and then copy and paste when i can. Now that it is weekend, chances of me being able to get on the comp will be nill as others would want it plus the crashes.

The pirate clans don't care who they get hired out to right? Which was the more brutal clan? The name seems to escape me right now...I may want to hire some out in light of recent events.

Generally they don't.... but not all are mercenary clans and some of the non-ones will probably not except any deals.. in most cases, try not to make themselves known to other Factions.

The most brutal and barbaric, yet currently smallish in size comparison to other clans, is the Larionov Clan.... evolved from the Larionov group back on Chiron, and at some point, became barbaric after Larionov died off... clan is also pretty much leaderless too and hard to find. Even if you succeed in hiring some of them, they can't be trusted enough to be much of use anyway. They are Raiders afterall.... The Blood Eagles Clan you have higher chances as they have a leader and more disciplined/organized...but they are Raiders as well and have an infamous rep.

May hire some specific available mercenary clans, but like with the Novans, they may get drawn to internal Pirate politics once the 'Kane Bloc' starts their revolution of the clan........ not clans will be follow a leading clan no matter what... but they will have an harder time surviving, depending on the clan of course. A lot of clans depending on the other types of clans to acquire the stuff they need...without those connections, they will have harder time getting what they need elsewhere. Hive could try contacting Kane after notice how much trouble the pirates will be starting to make and the organizing of the clan by the 'Kane Bloc'.

-LMP

[History Guy]

Yeah, I did it. The Laekdaemons have there response now!

Sovereign-- I liked that post. Reminded me slightly of Douglas Adams with the talking ship...expect the ship is a bit more annoying and jerky in Hitchiker's Guide... I like the idea of a robot civil war, it's a splendid idea, actually. I'm looking forward to it!

Cybergod-- Nice post. Just remember that Mr. Sym hates the Morganites just as much as the Terrans. He may be a Morganite, but he's had it up to hear with them.

Franky-- OK, you can kill a few minor functionaries (not those I've mentioned so far, though). You can even have a failed assasination plot against Morgan or Ku or something. An attempt that goes wrong or something. I won't be sending Ku off to the Hive for a while, though, so I'll have a ton of time to plan...

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Sovereign
Phew....

(Goes LMP style at Lonestar)

Do that again, and I shall cut out your tingue and feed it to the sea turtles!

[Cybergod]

Originally posted by frankychan
Cybergod-

You caught Mr. Sym??? How dare those damn Saturnians! Well Cybergod, the Hive hasn't had much contact with the Saturn "Republic" but I think now we will! How are we going to resolve this little incident?

Well, having a Colonial AI on Titan (the only non-Free Market world - ie. policing allowed) helps Saturnian Kingdom's intelligence. Where did you get an idea of a soulless (and possibly "Police") "State" or even a "Republic"? We will let this little incident pass for now but later you will regret for such arrogance... (Deja vu?)

History, thanks! So, who does Sym like?

[History Guy]

Well, Cyber, he likes the Hive. Have you decided on how old Sym is going to escape and get to Earth or the Hive or wherever? I think the best thing to do is to get him to Hive territory.

[Cybergod]

Originally posted by History Guy
Well, Cyber, he likes the Hive. Have you decided on how old Sym is going to escape and get to Earth or the Hive or wherever? I think the best thing to do is to get him to Hive territory.

How old?

I thought you wanted a say on this. I guess he could escape from our probe ship and board the transport where the Earther survivors from the Flame of Odin are. From Earth - it's up to you, ok? Would this be ok (Frankychan - don't worry an agent of your "empire" will not die... yet )?

And just for what are you supposed to use this smiley???

(are they happy behind bars???)

[Kassiopeia]

I take one day off, and am flooded with questions.

Firstly, I would be surprised to know if anyone had been able to access my BAC page; my server yet again decided to ignore any passes made by me.

Secondly, if it still hangs in the air, you can go quite freely with Mr. Sym. Just try to keep him out of harms way, and try to not interfere greatly with the story line we are planning at this time.

Franky, gonna PM ya soon.

History, could start deciding on possible peace talks soon.

Others:
General story idea

I thought of introducing a new type of ship - the "Artillery of Space", so-called Strike Cannons, as nicked from the Playstation game Colony Wars.
Basically, they sized about a Corvette or smaller, and carry an enormous energy or rail gun, with small engines to maneuvre. They are very slow, and very bad at defence on their own, but can increase a fleet's firepower nicely; also, they can be used for planetary defence or offence.

http://personal.phpoint.net/nortti/strikecannons.htm

On other matters;
I decided to do a little comparative scaling on the CSN ships. The pic is available here (could try to IMG SRC it here, as well)

http://personal.phpoint.net/nortti/scale.jpg

Anything else?

[Frankychan]

Originally posted by Cybergod


Well, having a Colonial AI on Titan (the only non-Free Market world - ie. policing allowed) helps Saturnian Kingdom's intelligence. Where did you get an idea of a soulless (and possibly "Police") "State" or even a "Republic"? We will let this little incident pass for now but later you will regret for such arrogance... (Deja vu?)

History, thanks! So, who does Sym like?

Good comeback. Would the Queen Sanchez like to be a concubine for the Emperor? *shudders at the thought*
So, how should we go about with the fabulous Mr. Sym?

[History Guy]

Cyber-- OK to me.

Kass-- Yeah, I suppose so, but I think the Terrans should make a strike on Naxos and Samnos outside the Sol System and take over Samnos and another moon, but perhaps not Naxos as yet.

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by History Guy
Kass-- Yeah, I suppose so, but I think the Terrans should make a strike on Naxos and Samnos outside the Sol System and take over Samnos and another moon, but perhaps not Naxos as yet.

Probably... Where are those places, again? Could have a little shot at Capella too.
Which brings me another thing in mind - one of the Battle Carriers of ECSN will suddenly 'disappear' during QT transit, and be nowhere to be found. Greatest single ship loss since Flame of Odin, I would think.
I implore you that this plot device will not shift the balance of power in the story, and that it is actually the start of a "knockout" story of BAC.

[GeneralTacticus]

Pushing it back 50 yrs. sounds alright w/me, so long as you change your timeline.

Gack! Didn't notice that. Yep, it's already been done.

[Kassiopeia]

Btw - Mellian, do you have a character profile on this Admiral Kerensky? I can host it, or even write it (character history etc.) since I do have the Secretary General and the Taskforce Liaison Officer there already.