Devastation Comes In Big Packages [Planetary Annihilation/Multicross SI]
cant help but feel good about that
Great chapter, it's really fun to see everything coming together.
Yuriko's nudges to lessen the chance of Tychus's betrayal and make him less angry are fun to spot too.
Yuriko's nudges to lessen the chance of Tychus's betrayal and make him less angry are fun to spot too.
Is something different going on with Donny here? In canon finding out about Tarsonis was enough to shake him out of his pro-Arcturus worldview due to him losing a brother there.
Soooo who's gonna swoop in and unite the new revolts into a coordinated movement? Will the raiders go from nomad revolutionaries to a proper revolutionary faction with a government and territory, or does mannco have someone else in mind to pick up the pieces?
Find out on the next episode of DBZ!
Find out on the next episode of DBZ!
Yes. But remember. Not only was his show stolen, he was bound and gagged, placed in mortal terror by Raynors Rapacious Reaving Raiders, and then as potential collateral to the Dominion.
Donny is likely trying to decide which one he is more aggrieved at right now.
Also, it just occurred to me.
When the war ended in Red Alert verse, Guy and Yuriko didn't immediately go off. No, they took a few months/years of touring the place while Other Guy set up Nova Industries.
Mann will likely leave a successor to MannCo, but what will Yuriko do between the end of the war and their departure?
Will she take up her newfound hobby of being a private journalist aka Vlogger?
Come to think of it, with the Dominion fracturing so badly, Valerian might not have an empire to inherit when Mengsk bites it. The entire basis of the imperial rule is now tainted, and without a major win to cement his political chops, Valerian is likely to be left in the dust.
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Yuriko becoming the galaxy's only Psychic Vlogger could be amusing, a show where she goes into important, exotic or dangerous locations and reports on stuff while also throwing around copious amounts of psychic power seems like the sort of thing that would be popular.
Could even get the Spectre's in on the fun for a few segments if she wants to add more than just reporting, like Tosh showing off how to do knife tricks.
Edit: Also Valerian losing out on his empire doesn't seem like such a bad thing, without having to herd the Dominion he can go off an do something he actually enjoys, maybe go off with Jacob Ramsey's crew and become an Archaeologist depending on how Mann's involvement affected how things went with Zamara.
Could even get the Spectre's in on the fun for a few segments if she wants to add more than just reporting, like Tosh showing off how to do knife tricks.
Edit: Also Valerian losing out on his empire doesn't seem like such a bad thing, without having to herd the Dominion he can go off an do something he actually enjoys, maybe go off with Jacob Ramsey's crew and become an Archaeologist depending on how Mann's involvement affected how things went with Zamara.
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It always bothered me that the broadcast missions were optional and basically never mentioned again. The recording should have caused major civil unrest, but because they were side missions they couldn't be build on in the narrative. Seeing it upgraded into something genuinely regime-destroying and all the effects rippling out is very satisfying.
I appreciate your CC! Though I would say that the Starcraft Arc is not so much about blowing through the universe or anything else, in truth, insomuch as it's a lot more about Yuriko's development. As noted by Mann, them sort of strongarming their way into getting Yuriko into the Shadowguard Academy turned out to not be especially conducive to helping Yuriko make friends. She was a known major feared killer i.e. A Yuriko in the Red Alert universe, and as noted in some of her POVs was sort of looking forward to working, living with, making friends amongst fellow psychics. A sort of trying to find those like her. It didn't work out, but with the Raiders she's managing to acclimate, and make jokes, and mess around, an infinitely more relaxed (despite the stuff they're running around doing) compared to the regimented lifestyle of the Shadowguard trainees, or the strict and unyielding lifestyle as a battlefield asset to the Empire of the Rising Sun. Mann notes in some of his POVs how, when she's around just him, she's a lot more skittish, uncertain, worried, etc. compared to the more confident, sassy, Yuriko when she's around the Raiders and even the Spectres. Though it has to also be noted how she's letting the facade slip here and there, with Raynor and Matt, and is coming to care even more genuinely about them than even she might have expected (see the cigarette 'these will kill you someday' moment, her getting him chairs during the Ihan crystal stuff).
It's not necessary to just 'go over every mission with in depth details', no, but that isn't really the intent. It's more to show Yuriko and her interactions with the universe on and off the battlefield, how things are changing for other characters as well, while also go a bit more in depth into certain things that can be poked at a bit more in-depth as to how they would 'really' work due to it being no longer just a video game. Examining the mentality of the characters when they interact with her, and her with them, plus yes some action scenes on occasion. But it also works to build up the profile of MannCo, Mann, and Yuriko as to how they regard them. Plus the various foundational efforts that led up to turning Media Blitz into Media Obliteration, such as going in depth into New Folsom and what they were getting out of it, talking about Meinhoff more in-depth to make it make sense as to why the Raiders needed to expand beyond the Hyperion due to the sheer number of recruits they have and the lack of deaths they've been experiencing, and even mentioning saving Juliana's life way back earlier in the Starcraft updates and being concerned about why Valerian still went back to the Dominion.
Now, whether or not any of that makes sense, or is being done well, that I can't be objective about, haha.
principles
This made me laugh. They really planned for everything, didn't they!
alright
the hybrid
Thanks, fixing. The lattermost is fine though as-is.
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Massgamer
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If nothing else its making her more her own person in general after what she went through, so worth it.
Mann's a dark chocolatey brown rather than pale, and has a huge ass beard while also being bald.
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Ok that's funny must of gotten my fictions mixed up. Didn't he provide so many starships to the rebellion they begin to be scared he was some kind of super droid army or something? I remember that was a theme of this story he was so strong he freaked out everyone he came in contact with and only once he reached command and conquer did he start showing "some" restraint? It has been awhile.
Oh yeah, Tychus is still here. Is there even a reason for Mengsk to keep him as a mole? I'm not sure what his usefulness to Mengsk is considering the Dominion is in open rebellion?
That might be a good thing. Although Valerian's situation is kinda up in the air since his mother is alive here.
He's basically did the same standard route of every PA fic. Fix everything in the universe, move to next, make sub-commanders with personalities. A rather basic set-up. Only this case he was forced to kill them(in the Ori conflict) and became despondent as the result.
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This is the one with a unit cap. So, yes he did sell everything off once he hit the point of "this is cool, but I want a bigger one that can do more" in SW because PA Commander doesn't understand supply and demand, just over supply. Then he wound up in Stargate and wound up killing his subcommanders/kids because one asked effectively "what is real?" and then got back a vague answer which wound up driving them insane to the point they husked all the others and went to war with dad to "prove she is real". Then came Red Alert, and he felt bored enough of running around randomly to actually become active and wound up picking up a Yuriko clone as you do, then rode out the war by killing the Japanese emperor and then quietly vanishing to wind up in StarCraft. Oh, and he picked up a cow for an emotional support creature before RA.
Hmm...yeah, I'm definitely curious about what will happen with the Dominion. Having an overarching government isn't purely a bad thing after all, even if the Dominion, Confederacy before it and the UED that likely inspired both are toxic garbage. They DID advance science, life-styles, and the ability to protect their people after all. They just flagrantly abused and reallocated all the ways they could have been 'good'. And frankly, unless MannCo steps in and keeps protecting everyone, subtly or not, Koprulu is still a very dangerous place. The Zerg Swarm is set to fracture, the Tal'Darim still roam the stars (weakened, and likely to break a lot more in the End War, but I don't see Mann willing to go through with Genocide at this point, and their culture is bad/strong enough that at least a few will remain assholes no matter what), Terran Pirates form all the time, and hell even the UED is probably going to go looking to 'colonize' when they finish licking their wounds (I mean, Mann could give them a Poke, but they've been a complete dystopia for centuries. It'd take a lot more dismantling to undo them then the more recent and mostly scattered Dominion).
I mean, he definitely could protect all the people of Koprulu. Even if they completely fractured into colonies, and even if the Khalai and Nerazim decide they want nothing to do with the Terrans (big ifs considering what they'll probably owe Raynor and MannCo by the end, and how they'll have woken up to the fact that even primitives can be a major threat if left to themselves after the last few wars).
But the sense I've been getting this whole arc is that MannCo has largely been stepping in when things are truly bad and leaving a lot of solutions behind...but they're not really supposed to keep solving problems after the events of 'Star Craft'. That is for the people of this Universe to do.
Umoja can expand more, but they're already pushing it when it comes to their logistical and cultural capacity. The Combine are just assholes and logistically incapable too. That leaves trying to salvage the Dominion's (and before them, the Confederacy) organizational structure and legitimacy under a new Regime with better intentions (and also weeded of the worst corruption and kept on their toes by MannCo ghosts to keep them from crossing any lines for a bitv). Or letting the Dominion fracture into multiple States, but trying to keep them generally allied and united so the smallest ones don't get left to die, or preyed upon by the larger.
I mean, he definitely could protect all the people of Koprulu. Even if they completely fractured into colonies, and even if the Khalai and Nerazim decide they want nothing to do with the Terrans (big ifs considering what they'll probably owe Raynor and MannCo by the end, and how they'll have woken up to the fact that even primitives can be a major threat if left to themselves after the last few wars).
But the sense I've been getting this whole arc is that MannCo has largely been stepping in when things are truly bad and leaving a lot of solutions behind...but they're not really supposed to keep solving problems after the events of 'Star Craft'. That is for the people of this Universe to do.
Umoja can expand more, but they're already pushing it when it comes to their logistical and cultural capacity. The Combine are just assholes and logistically incapable too. That leaves trying to salvage the Dominion's (and before them, the Confederacy) organizational structure and legitimacy under a new Regime with better intentions (and also weeded of the worst corruption and kept on their toes by MannCo ghosts to keep them from crossing any lines for a bitv). Or letting the Dominion fracture into multiple States, but trying to keep them generally allied and united so the smallest ones don't get left to die, or preyed upon by the larger.
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- Isekai'd to this shitty world we're live in
You sure? I remember him being white. I remember him being bald and heaving a stubble, and he was wearing a bathrobe everywhere. Did he changed his body? (he obviously changed his attire)
asdx
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- Texas.
Yes, one of the latest updates explicitly states him as dark skinned. But he could have had a white body at some point, given that he's not exactly stuck to one form.
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- Isekai'd to this shitty world we're live in
Did he even had commander body or did he started as "human"? I'm starting to confuse stories.
I know the post was a while ago, but do people not remember the 'reveal' to Yuriko? He informed her 'he' was a robot body at the same moment he decided 'depressed bathrobe hobo man' was a look that needed to change and tore his face off. In front of her.
I think it was the post after that confronting the Tal'Darim for the first time (and when Yuriko decided she needed more training) that he was revealed to be a big, brown, pirate man. With a hat that keeps getting bigger and more metallic.
Edit: I think the Commander body is still around and his primary node, but it's just not the medium used for interacting with others, to say nothing of keeping it safe. Yuriko might have seen it by now, but it's not really 'Mann/Guy' to her. Frankly I doubt it really is to him either, or that it will show up again unless they maybe pop into a Transformers universe.
I think it was the post after that confronting the Tal'Darim for the first time (and when Yuriko decided she needed more training) that he was revealed to be a big, brown, pirate man. With a hat that keeps getting bigger and more metallic.
Edit: I think the Commander body is still around and his primary node, but it's just not the medium used for interacting with others, to say nothing of keeping it safe. Yuriko might have seen it by now, but it's not really 'Mann/Guy' to her. Frankly I doubt it really is to him either, or that it will show up again unless they maybe pop into a Transformers universe.
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dragn982
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That was when he was Guy, in the Red Alert universe. He remade himself as Mann.
I mean he has to do it regardless. Mengsk has his life connected to his suit that he can easily turn off.
His current form is that of a pirate.
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This sounds like it would be big enough that even Kerrigan will hear about it. If nothing else, indirectly by picking it up from the minds of A LOT of people. Kind of curious how she reacts to it all. Glee about Mengsk being in trouble, a grin about how Raynor is evidently behind the roasting... but then what?
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I don't she actually cares about Mengsk at this point considering she's under Amon's influence.
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Oh man it's been a few years but i remember that arc his "kid" went batshit insane and it really messed him up and show cased why even if you have the technology you never make something like a PA commander there's no way to stop one with out literally trashing a whole galaxy if your lucky and if your not the whole universe.
Will be interested to see what Raynor's new armour looks like.... say what you will about its protective quality's but its got brand recognition now, as in "Raynor's with us now fighting on the front-lines with his boys".... Walking around in something that looks like a block with legs isn't quite the same appeal.
All about the optics.
All about the optics.
Actually it wasn't. He got over Tarsonis, in fact, and ended up starting The Donny Vermillion Show after the End War. A show which is heavy on the Pro-Arcturus and heavy on the Anti-Valerian/Raynor. Plus a couple of missions post-Media Blitz, depending on the order done, had their post-op UNN bits with Kate Lockwell actually trying to discuss the revelations and Donny shutting her down. Such as below:
View: https://youtu.be/T9FlU-dnHC4
So...yeah. Sure towards the end of WoL he ends up in his underwear, some peanut butter, and the Emperor's manifesto, but apparently he comes out the other side still strong in his faith in Arcturus.
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