Mandat de l'impératrice des Cieux - Imperial Princess Troubleshooter Space Opera Quest

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Axslashel said:
Hmm, Salsu and Volga frontier does not border each other. I thought the increase in pirates in Volga was stated to be spillover that got out of Salsu. But why would they go all the way to Volga when Corsica and Senaphimuk is closer?
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Some things should maintain an air of mystery :V
 
Salbazier said:
Secret wormhole perhaps? :V
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Mmmmm, that might actually be possible. Certainly more likely than them deciding to flee a crackdown in Salsu by travelling across either Corsica frontier, or through the Inner Rim? We can probably safely discard the Inner Rim, unless they have have advanced IFF spoofing tech? Though space is pretty big... They could also have just been let through by a House with a desire to put pressure on Toth, embarrass Yuipapa, any of a number of choices.

Or, they travel through Crosica to end up in Volga. With Toth. The, uh, extremely well-known/popular admiral who cut his teeth killing pirates. Instead of just staying in Corsica. Or going to Senaphimuk. Or if they want to not be immediately adjacent to Yuipapa, Beiyang. If they were led/encouraged to go Volga, it'd have to be directly by the backer, but that opens it's own major issues. More contact, needing to have fairly significant upfront incentive to go from the frying pan into the fire. Certainly, whoever the theoretical backer is has significant resources, and has invested into people, but to that point?

Though as a possible alternative, it could be not actually groups from Salsu at all. It could be people/ships made to seem from Salsu.
 
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    • This was in the first draft of the update. I rather liked it, but ultimately tossed it because, well, surely Yui isn't that dense. There's dense, and then there's harem anime protagonist dense, and I'm trying to write a verse with a certain baseline level of competence here. Still, it amused me. :V

    -=-

    Fleet Admiral Chew emits a long, drawn out sigh, and looks flatly at you and Kanda. "I can't stand this nonsense. Can you two please don't sohai can or not? You're both adults. Go and bang. Knock boots. Do the Horizontal mambo. Make the beast with both backs. See each other naked. Go and fuck each other and get rid of your unresolved sexual tension, can or not?"

    Kanda is turning red - not the angry red, you've seen that before, but embarrassed red? That's strange. You're both spacers, you've both heard salty language before.

    You look at your commander and mentor, and let your face show your puzzlement, as you ask him, "Sir, what unresolved sexual tension?"

    "You really dunno isit." Your mentor's voice has a hollow tone to it, as if he's slowly dying on the inside.

    "No, I know what unresolved sexual tension is, but I'm confused why you would bring up this non sequitur, Sir. We don't have that sort of relationship."

    "She really doesn't know what you're talking about, Sir," says Shiki, backing you up, and you feel a flush of friendly affection blossom in your heart. This is what true friendship means - even though he's mad at you, he still has your back.

    The Third Star Lord looks at both of you, and buries his face in his hands. He stabs the intercom button. "Ri-Sumeragi?"

    "Sir."

    "Bring me my sidearm, I need to shoot myself."

    "Respectfully, Fleet Admiral, I cannot do that. You don't have a sidearm assigned to you, and I can't let you escape your meetings."

    "Captain, I order you to find me a sidearm so I can shoot myself."

    "Respectfully, Sir, I refuse. You have far too much work pending for you to commit suicide."

    "Clear my calendar, then."

    "Unfortunately, Sir, ordering me to clear your calender, so that you might attempt suicide in order to escape your duties, would count as a charge of misusing your authority for personal gain, and I would be obliged to report this. Do you wish to proceed further?

    "Nevermind, Ri-Sumeragi."

    "Very good, Sir. Be advised, you'll be meeting with the First Star Lord in fourty two minutes."

    "Thank you, Ri-Sumeragi."
     
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    • ... honestly, us ending up in a relationship with Kanda is interesting. It's not going to be a perfect one, and there's plenty of opportunities for it to crash and burn. But that's half the fun of seeing it come to life and makes the good times even more special.

    That said however, this line right here?
    Whiskey Golf said:
    you feel a flush of friendly affection blossom in your heart. This is what true friendship means - even though he's mad at you, he still has your back.
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    That's what really put the whole scene into comical farce. The only thing you could have made this a more painful scene is have FoxMiral say that out loud to friendzone Kanda. At that point both of them would be asking for sidearms.
     
    Sorry, Johnny, you're going to have to resort to just headdesking until you fall into a coma and this is someone else's problem. :V
     
    A word of caution, but try not to read too much into deleted scenes, they're deleted for a reason.

    That said, I'd remind us of Johnny's musings from Feelings:

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    You shake your head, thinking of your niece's denseness. She literally went on a date once, and she still doesn't realise it was a date, or the extent of his feelings towards her. But that's her problem. You're not going to touch this with a ten foot pole: you've got enough problems already, you don't need to add being a shidduch( matchmaker) to the pile.
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    Contrast this with Yui's complaints early on in the quest about how nobody is interested in her. :V

    Work on the update is going along, although i got cucked again last night when lightning struck and killed 5820K. Made the mistake of writing on Word on the hard drive instead of the cloud. :V I'll try to do a PSU transplant from 2400 and we'll see how it goes and whether it works out. At least I got my stimulus check from the Malaysian government...

    ...all 50 US dollars of it. :/
     
    Strypgia said:
    Sorry, Johnny, you're going to have to resort to just headdesking until you fall into a coma and this is someone else's problem. :V
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    Johnny's daily mantra in the mirror: "Two more years and a wakeup and then I'm out!"

    Sleepy Maggie from bed: "Johnny, stop mumbling to yourself in the mirror, it's annoying."

    "If it's so annoying go sleep in your own room then la hor!"

    "Don't want to, this bed is warmer."
     
    catnip513 said:
    Don't mind if I ask which state you're from? Selangor here.

    Here's hoping things get better in the next two weeks.
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    Currently been living in Selangor the last 15 years, but I'm actually from Sabah, which is why we had the light cruisers Beluran and Tongod, captained by former Sabah Chief Ministers, and why the capital city of the Egon system is Jesselton. I think I'm the only person who got those refs tho.

    NGL, the issue with Yui refusing to accept VSS's softcopy authorisations was based on JAIS refusing to accept a cellphone photo of a marriage certificate as actual proof that the people they khalwat raided were married, because yanno, a photo isn't a marriage cert. :V
     
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    catnip513 said:
    Sorry, no clue about the refs. I had figured you were either a Malaysian or Singaporean.
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    I mean, it's basically only things Sabahans who grew up in the Pedalaman( Interior) in the 90s would know about, lol. :p

    What I kek about is that none of the Malaysians who've read this quest have perasan that the Siam Astra rep who went to Egon to negotiate is Rafidah Aziz Sumeragi. :V
     
    You can't die Johny, where else the Navy will get its shitposting otherwise.

    BTW, I recently have 'oh so that's where it come from' WRT Amagi and AL's current event. Which reminds me, I need to my daily builds.
     
    Axslashel said:
    Hmm, Salsu and Volga frontier does not border each other. I thought the increase in pirates in Volga was stated to be spillover that got out of Salsu. But why would they go all the way to Volga when Corsica and Senaphimuk is closer?
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    Salbazier said:
    Secret wormhole perhaps? :V
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    Who? said:
    Mmmmm, that might actually be possible. Certainly more likely than them deciding to flee a crackdown in Salsu by travelling across either Corsica frontier, or through the Inner Rim? We can probably safely discard the Inner Rim, unless they have have advanced IFF spoofing tech? Though space is pretty big... They could also have just been let through by a House with a desire to put pressure on Toth, embarrass Yuipapa, any of a number of choices.
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    Oh hey, I just realize. Space is 3D

    Just because in its symbolic/simplified/lazy 2D representation two area does not seem like correctly connected to each other it doesn't mean, its actually like that in 3D realspace. There could be a extension of teritory above or below bridging them, or maybe Corsica is actually big in vertical direction but thin in the horizontal, etc.

    So yeah, maybe it is really 'wormhole', in the sense of 'when looked in higher dimensional space, some path looks shorter than when see in lower dimensional space', but maybe just 3D vs 2D, rather than 4D vs 3D.
     
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    ... suddenly the whole "forbidden relationship" schtick with the uncle just took on a very dark dynamic. And I don't just mean the navy abducted and sexually tortured a member of nobility. This is classic "mutually escalating atrocities" levels of fucked up.
     
    Always Late said:
    ... suddenly the whole "forbidden relationship" schtick with the uncle just took on a very dark dynamic. And I don't just mean the navy abducted and sexually tortured a member of nobility. This is classic "mutually escalating atrocities" levels of fucked up.
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    Technically, he's a mercenary, not Navy.



    (Also, this is, yet again, another shout out I'm making that I expect nobody to recognise. That said, first two people to guess what franchises I'd been making shoutouts to in this chapter get cameos in a later update. ;))
     
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    Whiskey Golf said:
    (Also, this is, yet again, another shout out I'm making that I expect nobody to recognise. That said, first two people to guess what franchises I'd been making shoutouts to get cameos in a later update.)
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    Unfortunately, I do have a limit with the amount of hentai I'm willing to consume to find out which one you're talking about.
     
    Always Late said:
    Unfortunately, I do have a limit with the amount of hentai I'm willing to consume to find out which one you're talking about.
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    Nah, not hentai, lol. I've given quite a few hints in there, so with some google exploration...

    Anyway. Reactions? Thoughts? Speculations?

    (this side - which was prepared a fair while ago - is being dropped to buy time for me to continue writing the main update because i got cucked this entire week and couldn't get any writing done. :|)
     
    Whiskey Golf said:
    I've given quite a few hints in there, so with some google exploration...
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    Well, the outfits beyond the Azure Lane images are a bit to wordy to slot in. "Mercenary group with black eagle" gets me this thing from Fire Emblem Three Houses or something from Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Trying "fox girl" or "kitsune" with any kind of military garb gets me generic fanart or skimpy models that I can't link, even with safesearch on. And going for the merc just gives me some kind of style of sunglasses named "Mercenary". Don't even get me started on what a name as generic as "Special Projects Group" turned up.

    That's my fifteen minutes of effort. Back to staving off sleep for another twelve hours.
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    Anyway. Reactions? Thoughts? Speculations?
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    Yeah, the Sumeragi are pretty well fucked in more ways that one. Especially if this isn't the only member with ties to the House that've been captured. But the issue is keeping the info believable long enough that nobody'll care how it was gotten.
     
    1. Suzume probably just had the most intense ride of her life. She maybe a noblewoman in public but a freak in private.
    2. This may be an intense sort of relationship.
    3. Does no one wear any protection or is that not necessary?
     
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