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Anonymous3, Anonymous4, Anonymous7, Anonymous9, AggregatorOfSorrows, M.Mollen,
WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot, DigDug, BigGunn, Dolcett, Starwatcher, Backlog,
DarkAvariel, Knocker, Hullu_Kapteeni, GrimDark, BloodForTheBloodGod,
Queen’s_Bitch, BackDat@55Up, DoYouEvenDPS?, MajorTom, Parca, and DarkAngel are
in the chat.
Anonymous3: So, I finally managed to get to Tsk’neth, see
what went down there.
Lizard: Tsk’neth… that’s the place that the Black Stars
went Cinder vs. Evil Dead on, right?
Anonymous3: Yeah. Anyways, the reports are true. Black
Star owns the system now, and Tsk’neth IV is flat out GONE! I think what’s left
will form a loose asteroid belt in the next few millenia.
DarkAvariel: What in the--? How did he destroy a planet?
TheDespoiler: I would assume that he shot it. A lot.
Not_the_Face!: But, even their rail shots wouldn’t be
enough to blow up a planet, not anytime soon.
Backlog: He wasn’t limited to those railguns. I just
checked the chat log, and he specifically said that the senior surviving authorities
in the system signed off on the planet being both uninhabited by sentient life,
and in need of Exterminatus.
DarkAvariel: So, what does that mean?
Backlog: The treaties involving using superluminal
weapons against inhabited planets have loopholes. Namely, the fact that if
someone in authority signs off on a planet being uninhabited by sentients, then
the treaty doesn’t apply.
Backlog: And, under Alliance law, having the senior
officials call for Exterminatus gives any mercenary company with the capability
license to execute Exterminatus on that planet, using whatever legal means are
at their disposal.
BurtBacharach: Wait, you mean he went and lawyered himself
into a position where he could use Starbolts on a planet?
Backlog: Yes.
M.Mollen: In my defense, the planet really needed destroying.
RedFox: Hey, Mollen, what in the hell have you been up to
in the Alliance? The spacer bars were talking about an upcoming Corporate War,
and all the profits they could make from it, and now they’re pissed as hell
because they won’t get to profit.
Starwatcher: Oh, yes. I saw that the Yathru Corporation
declared a formal corporate war against Black Star. That was supposed to start
yesterday.
RedFox: According to the spacers I talked to, it started
AND ended yesterday!
M.Mollen: The spacers were right, then. Yathru declared
war, and gave a set date for hostilities to commence, under corporate warfare
bylaws. They were intending to launch a campaign of sabotage, sanctions, and
subterfuge to try and win concessions from me. I declined to play their game.
Starwatcher: Is that why your entire damn offensive force,
at every base I could get contacts with, used X’thari drives to jump out in the
last couple weeks?
M.Mollen: Yes. As set down by the corporate bylaws, I did
not start my attack until the set time. However, once that time came, forces
that I had prepositioned struck the Yathru Corporation in every system they had
a major presence in, destroying orbital infrastructure and sweeping away any
defenses, before eliminating the majority of their assets.
Blaze: Wait, Yathru owned entire planets. Does that mean
you…
M.Mollen: Greenwave was deployed on four planets wholly
owned by Yathru Corporation, yes, including Maccara, their headquarters planet.
Blaze: Well, fuck.
DoYouEvenLyft?: Well, that would explain why Yathru’s
stock has just gone through the floor.
SEA-TAC_Sweetie: Yes, I would think that anyone who owns
Yathru stock is reconsidering their life choices at the moment.
WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot: So, Yathru challenges Black Star to
a corporate war, thinking that they would play the game same as all the other
corporations. Instead, Black Star goes immediately for the jugular, and wipes
the corporation out?
M.Mollen: A fair approximation.
Dolcett: Hey, Mollen. Why was the lovely lady I had over
for dinner complaining about you ‘recommending’ that the Alliance declare
Exterminatus on Maccara, even after you Greenwaved the place?
M.Mollen: Ah, that was an unfortunate result of
operational constraints from various treaties preventing me from doing what
truly needed to be done in that case.
Dolcett: How so?
M.Mollen: Well, the big brains at Yathru decided that
experimenting with zombie plagues as a bioweapon was a great idea. And they put
one of their primary research facilities in a subterranean complex located
underneath the capitol of Rak’kun City.
Golddigger: I don’t know if I should be terrified, or
sending the devs a case of beer.
M.Mollen: Why not both?
Dolcett: So, wait, the zombies, and any samples, were
kept in a high tech facility, and Greenwave eats tech. What is keeping the
zombies from overrunning the planet?
M.Mollen: Well, there’s a 15% chance that the destruction
of the facility’s structural supports will cause the whole thing from
collapsing, causing enough destruction to destroy the samples. I think that’s a
little high, myself. I’d put it closer to 10%. But, anyways, other than that
minor condition, well, it is only a matter of time.
DarkAvariel: THEN WHY DID YOU GREENWAVE THE PLANET BEFORE
BLOWING THAT SHIT UP?
M.Mollen: Because the only way into the facility was a tunnel
from a mansion on the edge of the city that belonged to one of Yathru’s owners.
No weaponry permitted under the Corporate Court’s rules of warfare would do the
job, which meant the only way to destroy the samples would be to send my people
into a zombie movie.
DarkAvariel: But there are over 1 trillion people on Maccara!
M.Mollen: And they mean less to me than 100 of mine.
M.Mollen: For now, the threat is contained to Maccara.
Even when it gets loose, it will be effectively impossible to gather samples
without also introducing Greenwave to ships or facilities you’d rather keep
intact. So, that makes it safe-ish, until the planet can be declared dead, and
wiped clean.
DoYouEvenDPS?: What’s your beef with zombies, anyways? I
mean, you’ve gone out of your way to go and blow up everything halfway
connected to zombie outbreaks.
M.Mollen: Zombie outbreaks are fun in other games, like old
school MMOs, where you know that the NPCs aren’t ‘real’ and they’ll just
respawn, and once the event is over it will have just been a fun event. This
game isn’t like that.
Requiesce-in-Pace: Ah, yes. When the world is ‘real’,
that makes it all hit a bit harder. The Biohazard games are fun to play, but
you wouldn’t want to *live* in one.
M.Mollen: Exactly.
Starwatcher: So, what did Black Star win in this little
war?
M.Mollen: Ownership over a few systems that formerly had
populated planets, and control over another Gateway. I’m going to sell most of
what we won, though I’ll hold on to Maccara until I can figure out whether I’ll
need to destroy the planet, or if just burning a continent to the mantle will
work.
DarkAvariel: You aren’t playing around, are you?
M.Mollen: I just got through saying how this world is ‘real’,
right? Why would I play around with things like this?
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ReplyDeleteDolcett: Hey, Mollen. Why was the lovely lady I had over for dinner complaining ...
Is the "over" superfluous or intentional??