We needed them to enforce and police. We just didn't need them for a big bloody battle.
Why do you think Slayer will answer such things when there's no IC reason for us to know the answer? (AKA explicit spoilers)
We should sign all the mercenaries on permanent contract after this, while they're delirious with success and susceptible to accepting discount rates. Sell it as securing easy jobs and guaranteed funding forever with all the bling Lihua heaps on us. Get started on forming a personal army who's experienced firsthand the benefits of working for the soon to be Emperor-(Consort) of China
...Lelouch, pointedly, took very little actual military action.
Key difference here is that these merc's would be signing on with the (co-)leader of a superpower, and it will absolutely destroy their reputation and future if these merc's attempt any shenanigans against the leverage we have available to retaliate.
I don't believe any of them are going to backstab as a group, but as individuals. Spies have been trying to make it onto New Caledonia from the start and if there's a chance to finally succeed by offering an obscene amount of money to a merc, they'll try it. And unlike the rest of our misfits the mercenaries haven't received an incredible gesture of loyalty from Lulu yet.
@Slayer Anderson Which side of the Tigris river bank did Britannia get pushed back to? I'm reading this as a MEF assault from Persia rather than from Turkey? Also am I getting the implication that Chinese Eunuchs sent some Gun-rus to them in an effort to find any allies?
Never doubt the ability of people to do everything they can to try and ignore reality. Case in point, pre-WW2, American and British Intelligence Agencies would do absolutely everything they could to find some excuse to declare every single Japanese Plane a copy of some Western plane, since it was "of course the national charitaristic of the Japanese that they can not innovate, only copy from their betters". Even when the plane was one that had just literally set the air speed record. Hell, they were so intent on decrying every japanese plane as a copy or knock-off that on said record setting plane, they outright declared that it must have used the landing wheels of one plane...only for the Japanese to outright state that they used a completely different plane's landing wheels because they liked their performance.
From Persia going West towards IRL Iraq.
Your not spicing it up enough. They made the old administration do there job at gun point. A relatively stupid merc can turn that into a pretty decent story about making a corrupt fuck piss himself while finally doing his job to the cheers of hundreds in guangzhou's automotive registry. Pip can write a best selling novel from the shit he is tangentially aware of.
The Wild Geese in particular have golden PR opportunity in coordinating so many mercenaries from so many different companies and keeping incidents with the locals to a minimum.
And Intrigue. If there is one thing no one can deny, it's that Lelouch tricked the eunuchs into hiring him to repair and transport Knightmares into their city, which he then used to seize an airport. You have any idea how much the commitee for Continental defenses workload just shot up now that they have to quadruple check every salvage team selling to Europe for Britannia aligned infiltrators?
Abject paranoia, because nothing should go this smooth.
No comment. OOC information.
Well it's understandable. There just mercs. Of course the other boot has to drop. It's not like Lelouch can just-
-deflect it back at Japan with the unmitigated heft of the embodiment of his pride as a Britannian Royal. Such is completely beyond there perspective.
Since the Tokushi-La razed the ancient civilization not just to the ground but below sea level, all existing Thought Elevators must necessarily exist within Britannian territory on account of Victor having directed their construction. As to how many, that we don't know.
Well it's understandable. There just mercs. Of course the other boot has to drop. It's not like Lelouch can just-
-deflect it back at Japan with the unmitigated heft of the embodiment of his pride as a Britannian. Such is completely beyond there perspective.
It's really good. Maybe the second best exchange in the whole Chinese invasion event.
But let us not forget the very best one. Knowing what we do now, it's only natural that Kaguya was the one to foil the Eunuch's plans at every turn. Involving her nation and ex fiance in their schemes. The nerve.
It would depend on various things, but one of the most likely avenues for his advancement would be as an international man of mystery.
Secret, agent man! Secret, agent man! Probably not a number, but certainly not the 11th prince.
Still hoping these will be updated before the New Year, for discussion purposes, but understand if your busy.
Idk, I haven't read/seen that. Makes sense because it's based on stuff from Code Geass I guess.
