Petals of Titanium -- My Life as a Mecha Setting Bridge Bunny Quest
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[X] Civilian casualties are already worse than you'd feared
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[X] The enemy fleet is larger than expected
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[X] The enemy fleet is larger than expected
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The alternative spelling of civilians: ablative armour
The alternative spelling of civilians: ablative armour
When defeat means the genocide of your entire nation victory is a bargain at almost any price.
Arguments like 'soldiers should die so civilians don't have to' only apply if you believe victory, or at least survival, to be inevitable.
[X] Civilian casualties are already worse than you'd feared
Arguments like 'soldiers should die so civilians don't have to' only apply if you believe victory, or at least survival, to be inevitable.
[X] Civilian casualties are already worse than you'd feared
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Also, it should be noted that the current Empress is still alive? From what I can tell, all of this has taken place in... how long exactly? Before we start declaring them an invincible hyperpower, why not see if they're even around in fifty years, because at the moment they're kinda burning the candle at both ends.
...now, we very might well not be around in fifty years, and right now we're getting our asses kicked, so perhaps it doesn't matter. But I've seen no real signs that this is going to last all that well.
...now, we very might well not be around in fifty years, and right now we're getting our asses kicked, so perhaps it doesn't matter. But I've seen no real signs that this is going to last all that well.
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The Sandman
So Zetta Slowpoke
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Given the stated goals of the enemy fleet and the failure of their attempt to cripple our navy, it seems reasonable that they're going to try to get as much genocide as possible in as they die.
Given the stated goals of the enemy fleet and the failure of their attempt to cripple our navy, it seems reasonable that they're going to try to get as much genocide as possible in as they die.
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Uuuugh this huuuurts lol
Uuuugh this huuuurts lol
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The former seems like a logical conclusion.
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As much as I love the 'pick your poison' options(seriously it is a fun way to investment myself in a story and really care) I think its greatest drawback is that it makes me constantly feel like I'm loosing, and it's hard to see which choices are wins. Like, I know choosing to protect Princess Daystar and her ship was a win for the next war, but none of the effects from that are really 'on screen' so to speak.
We see how not choosing pilots early on lost us Hiro. We see how letting the enemy escape let them come in hard on us. But we don't really see any positive effects from our choices.
On the surface saving Mosi is what even let us be here to come to Titan's defense, knowing the enemy wanted to mass exterminate civilians, but then that means that if we hadn't convinced Mosi to defect that we wouldn't have come to Titan's defense at all. Tragedies do work as stories, but not when the tragedy is far off screen and away from the characters, so meta narratively that's unlikely. So I guess there would have been some distress beacon or whatever sent to Iapetus and then the Outer Fleet would have responded? So either Mosi's info is useless from a meta perspective or it allowed us to get there earlier, to some kind of benefit. Only nothing in the narrative is saying there was a benefit. There's no story element from any perspective that has the cavalry coming in, a beacon of hope or whatever. It feels like we haven't actually 'won' anything.
As much as I love the 'pick your poison' options(seriously it is a fun way to investment myself in a story and really care) I think its greatest drawback is that it makes me constantly feel like I'm loosing, and it's hard to see which choices are wins. Like, I know choosing to protect Princess Daystar and her ship was a win for the next war, but none of the effects from that are really 'on screen' so to speak.
We see how not choosing pilots early on lost us Hiro. We see how letting the enemy escape let them come in hard on us. But we don't really see any positive effects from our choices.
On the surface saving Mosi is what even let us be here to come to Titan's defense, knowing the enemy wanted to mass exterminate civilians, but then that means that if we hadn't convinced Mosi to defect that we wouldn't have come to Titan's defense at all. Tragedies do work as stories, but not when the tragedy is far off screen and away from the characters, so meta narratively that's unlikely. So I guess there would have been some distress beacon or whatever sent to Iapetus and then the Outer Fleet would have responded? So either Mosi's info is useless from a meta perspective or it allowed us to get there earlier, to some kind of benefit. Only nothing in the narrative is saying there was a benefit. There's no story element from any perspective that has the cavalry coming in, a beacon of hope or whatever. It feels like we haven't actually 'won' anything.
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Anja's family lives here, don't they? I don't want her to lose loved ones again. And there's Mazlo's, too.
Of course, this probably puts J6, Glorianna, and Owusu in more danger, which I also don't want, but civ casualties feels more like a vote for tragedies than the other two options, which feel more like they're about the outcome of the battle.
Anja's family lives here, don't they? I don't want her to lose loved ones again. And there's Mazlo's, too.
Of course, this probably puts J6, Glorianna, and Owusu in more danger, which I also don't want, but civ casualties feels more like a vote for tragedies than the other two options, which feel more like they're about the outcome of the battle.