There is literally no point working with Mirande this turn unless Dia can get something more from the Eldar index. If you aren't doing the index action you should drop the Mirande action and choose something else.
Unfortunately, we decided to take full responsibility for secretly assisting Mirande instead of pulling her out of school or referring her to the professionals. If we aren't willing to let other people help we really need to make the time regardless of whether we have new insights because otherwise she is a teenager struggling with her dark, terrible secret and the whispers of the haunting dead all on her own.
Okay, I'm just going to hit the highlights here.
1) Yes, I want to develop weapons that have a chance of helping us against the pDE.
2) You yourself have found evidence of Chaos influences. Why do you think they just gave up? And yes, the WH40K universe is imploding. That's the point of the setting.
3) Psyker issues have been talked about before I replied. And are well known.
4) Every noble that doesn't want to have the lines of succession messed up, including Maxwell? Besides, why are you assuming it would default to Miranda? It would probably go to Victoria since they have made it quite clear that they aren't ready to unite with us yet.
You know, I think I know how you operate. You get this little picture in your head. Then you refuse to change. And you have decided that there is no hope. Frankly, at this point, I'm not actually talking to you. I'm pointing out to anyone listening how irrational your ideas actually tend to be.
Awesome. Have a race of elder gods engineer humanity into living weapons for a war of annihilation against hope-eating metal zombies and build us a sixty-five million year old galactic empire from which we can collect the fruits. In the meantime, we are totally outclassed by a margin which requires scientific notation just to represent it. The Authority captured the largest cache of the most advanced weaponry on the planet and have been wielding it against them for years, and haven't even dented them. Maybe Gravekeeper has some insight into a way to make humans look less interesting (stoic and solemn is pretty boring). Perhaps constructing the crude psychic jammers which the Station tells us come after basic psychic research will make our cities unpleasant enough for them to go look for fun elsewhere. Perhaps we can convince the Exodites to let us plug the jammers into their proto-world-spirit of crystal trees and give the bad guys a splitting headache. We might be able to learn more about the world itself and discover that, while we are horribly outclassed, an entire ecosphere which has already defied them once can be wielded successfully enough to protect us.
Notice how none of these involve bottle rockets or rotary spitball launchers.
I found evidence of chaos influence, which has been gestating for decades in massive brutal cults and still isn't even halfway done. Half our citizens and all of our allies are former
cannibals. One quiet assassination between blunts is not going to birth a daemon world.
Psykers have many issues. Not among them is "using abductive reasoning to analyze them canonically doomed humanity."
The succession would default to Mirande because she is the next oldest daughter and Dia has no sons. That is how their succession works. The Dragonflies were the ones who
insisted on the marriage for the explicit purpose of uniting the leadership in the next generation. You think that ancient noble families are going to to be shocked and appalled at dynastic intrigue?
You are the one who is stubbornly insisting in the face of all evidence, including direct testimony of a character in good position to know and with no reason to lie that the simple fact - and it is a simple fact, not an analysis, not a prediction, not an expectation, just a reporting of reality: "has The Authority done any damage to any of the Eldar, yes/no?
No." - is that even with the best weaponry available before the fall on our extremely backwater colony planet we are completely impotent in any conventional military sense. You are effectively insisting that Frodo focus on sharpening a toothbrush with which to shiv Sauron instead of putting that effort towards finding and pursuing an asymmetric avenue. "Hobbit vs. Demigod in hand-to-hand combat" is a pretty good analogy to Greengraft's relationship with the pre-fall Eldar.
Maxwell Aetos (Dragonflies)
Rolled 57 + 22 + 8 + 11 = 98
vs.
William Orange (504s)
Rolled 23 + 36 + 14 + 7 = 80
vs.
You
Rolled 90 + 30 + 13 + 6 = 149
We had a total bonus of 49, plus some sort of other bonus somewhere since the numbers don't add up, quite, Maxwell had a bonus of 41...and the 504s had a bonus of 57.
Which means a bad roll or not paying attention could *totally* lose us the election. Both would make it inevitable.
Y'know, someone else might be irritated that they have been pointing this out since it happened, yet it is only now getting any attention.
Also of note is that they weren't running their best. This time around Michael Stern has stepped down from leader of the 504, so we might have a real fight on our hands.
So the family ends up estranged from each other, with a clear favorite and the rest ignored.
Yea I dropped the Shatter saw presidency action as given the bonuses involved we're very likely to get smashed.
We have a major fight on our hands, but we are incumbent, have won more goodwill since then, and the Dragonfly nobility might not be as insistent that Maxwell run after the thrashing he got last time if it looks like the 504 might win. This is far from in the bag, but it doesn't seem like it is time to throw in the towel either.
