Beyond Alpha Centauri:::: Discussion Thread 5

[GeneralTacticus]

There isnt really an alliance with the Spartans. Just no fighting. Is Lysander's opinion a popular one in the population or do most of the population simply want to get on with life?What precentage of the population support war with Sparta and which want to build.

Yes, but Lysander doesn't see it that way. Lysander's opinion is (obviously) shared by the other members of his 'faction', while Menelaus' belief that the Cadre should make peace with Sparta is mostly shared by the upper ranks of the Cadre. The rest don't care too much either way, they just want to get on with their lives.

[Sprayber]

ok. I was just wondering. How do you see the civil war progressing. what role does the hive and Sparta play in the war.

[GeneralTacticus]

I don't really want this to turn into a Spartan-Hive war, I'm thinking that once the Hive ships arrive and clear out the Cadre ones, the Spartan (as you suggested) start moving in to blockade the system, then going on from there. It'll have to depend on what the Hive reaction to this is.

[Sprayber]

I'm not really interested in having a Spartan-Hive war at the moment either.

Maybe if the ships that the Hive sent in were generic ships and not necessarly ones that could be identified as Hive ships we could get around the direct confrontation.

My suggestions

Hive sends ships that are not identified as Hive ships

The ships enter the system and destroy the Cadre fleet

They stay there and begin to transport their troops.

the war ships stay in orbit and cause trouble for the Cadre goverment and help Lysander.

Spartan ships are sent in and egage and destroy the ships(or some escape)

Spartans set up blockade of system to prevent futher supplies and ships.

Lysander seizes the oppourtunity to fight Spartans and try to draw them into the fighting.

Spartan ships fight whatever Lysander throw at them.

Maybe Spartan commandos are sent in to fight limited egagements giving Lysander a picture of Spartan soldiers.

the civil war drags on between the government and Lysander.

Hive uses third party mercenaries to supply Lysander. Spartans are kept busy chasing these ships.

These are just possible suggestions. something to think about

[Sprayber]

Franky I sent a pm to you but your box is full. empty it and Ill send it back to you.

[GeneralTacticus]

Hmmm, well Yang has already stated what he will be sending, and I hardly see how you could disguise Hive Battlecruisers & Carriers as belonging to someone else.

[Mr. President]

Perhaps it wouldn't be possible to pass them off as outrightly belonging to a different faction, but to pass them off as unknowns. Generally, I would think that you could remove physical markings and also doctor sensor and/or FTL signatures. Just a thought.

[Frankychan]

Sprayber,

Sorry, just dumped my pm's right now 248 am PST. (just got home). I have 3 pm's in my box so your message should get through.

This Cadre incident is getting very interesting


Ha, ha, ha!

Yang rules!!!

[Frankychan]

Originally posted by Lonestar
Psst! I need y'all to mosy over to the OT and vote for the AECCP in the election!

Thanks.

Umm, as with Mr. President, I have also voted in that poll.

As you can tell by my "location", I have voted for the BEST option the pollsters have given.


Anyway, another post coming up within days.

Sprayber andLonestar,

Are you two going to make a reply or reaction to Yang's message to you two?

History Guy-hope our message wasn't too coarse with you. I told you it was going to be typical "Hive diplomacy". Well, I'm thinking of another message to be sent to Nwabudike, so he better be sitting down!

[History Guy]

By gum! Yet another war spiraling out to include other parties...uh-oh...

Franky-- It's typical of Yang! I am not bothered at all. Indeed, I was going to try and work on a new (long) post today. Yang was going to be included as well. Write your other post when convient to you!

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by frankychan



Sprayber andLonestar,

Are you two going to make a reply or reaction to Yang's message to you two?

Nope. Yang has now sent Ian two messages in a row

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Mr. President
Perhaps it wouldn't be possible to pass them off as outrightly belonging to a different faction, but to pass them off as unknowns. Generally, I would think that you could remove physical markings and also doctor sensor and/or FTL signatures. Just a thought.

That and the fact that Yang said he was sending certain types ships, but he didn't mention specifics on the ships they would be. There is lots of wiggle room in what kind of ships the Hive will send.

[Frankychan]

Ok, I'm going to edit the post to change the ships into disguised Hive ships. That way, hopefully it'll help.

I'll wait until Sprayber and General Tacticus say something before I make the change, cool?

ooh ooh, just to let everyone in on what's happening in frankychanland, today I just bought me a palm pilot!

[Mr. President]

I was thinking (hard as it may be to believe) and I remembered somebody, possibly Sprayber, suggesting a while ago that we could make Alpha Centauri faction attributes and/or files for our Beyond Alpha Centauri creations. Many would be mostly the same, of course, but it might be fun. Anybody feel like doing that?

Palm pilot! Sounds like fun! I've never really used one of those, so I couldn't say much about them.

[Frankychan]

"Faction attributes and files"? What do you mean?

Hee hee hee, I'm going to play around w/my new toy to see what it can do.