Petals of Titanium -- My Life as a Mecha Setting Bridge Bunny Quest
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- madison
Eh, he was a captain not a major officer, further he died doing his duty masterfully, with his command doing a massive amount to save the day. I doubt people will use his death to hurt his cause. What are they going to say? he saved everyone a few times over but died doing it?
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
If the answer to "We almost got bodied because the Solar Empire threw a massive fleet on a suicide mission" is "To double down on our worst and most counterproductive traits", then for all I like the characters, the Exile Empire deserves to die.
That it'll lose to something even worse is the real tragedy, but the Solar Empire's just too powerful and too cohesive despite their superfacism to lose. After all, all they need to do is send anyone who thinks otherwise off to die on some pointless crusade or another like they just did.
That it'll lose to something even worse is the real tragedy, but the Solar Empire's just too powerful and too cohesive despite their superfacism to lose. After all, all they need to do is send anyone who thinks otherwise off to die on some pointless crusade or another like they just did.
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- Newer England
[X] A tactical gambit by the United Empire forces manages to strike a devastating blow to the Divine Navy's forces
I'm gonna be honest here, this seems like 100% the best choice of our available options, and I don't really the see downsides to it, so I'm ever so slightly terrified of what terrible things it will cause without being able to predict them.
I'm gonna be honest here, this seems like 100% the best choice of our available options, and I don't really the see downsides to it, so I'm ever so slightly terrified of what terrible things it will cause without being able to predict them.
[X] The Divine Navy's Admiral, Lord Grangier, is killed in combat, sending the enemy into chaos again
Keeping in mind that we are selecting the breaking point of the battle that leads to its end, I am going with this.
Killing competent leaders is almost more effective then killing ships sometimes. Also the enemy fleet scattering to internal chaois sounds like it might be good for morale after this shitstorm is over.
Keeping in mind that we are selecting the breaking point of the battle that leads to its end, I am going with this.
Killing competent leaders is almost more effective then killing ships sometimes. Also the enemy fleet scattering to internal chaois sounds like it might be good for morale after this shitstorm is over.
EternalObserver
eYe Gaze baCk
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- The Void
[X] A tactical gambit by the United Empire forces manages to strike a devastating blow to the Divine Navy's forces
Everything sucks
Everything sucks
Whiskey Golf
Being of Editing & Technical Assistance
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[X] A tactical gambit by the United Empire forces manages to strike a devastating blow to the Divine Navy's forces
Alas, this isn't the sort of story whwre our sole super Ace can solo the enemy for us.
"The objective of this mission is to verify Three Strikes' status as a singularity."
"I am confident that this mission will prove the hypothesis that Three Strikes isn't all that."
Later...
"Three Strikes solo'd the entire Erusean Navy and killed off their leadership."
Alas, this isn't the sort of story whwre our sole super Ace can solo the enemy for us.
"The objective of this mission is to verify Three Strikes' status as a singularity."
"I am confident that this mission will prove the hypothesis that Three Strikes isn't all that."
Later...
"Three Strikes solo'd the entire Erusean Navy and killed off their leadership."
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- madison
we don't actually know how much of their fleet they sent out here, nor such a total defeat will affect things. Sure they can lie about it, but people will notice we're still here, and not a fucking single ship came home. That's going to be the kind of weakness that won't look good. None of their fleet making it home might actually destabilize things somewhat.
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And Jupiter, where many of these ships and personnel were originally stationed, was already unstable, with a substantial local insurgency. Mosi was there hunting down pirates and "terrorist" rebels.
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- madison
I was under the impression that they had it on lock? Hence taking the shot now?was it less "secured" and more, " can be left on light garson for a year or so"?
[X] A tactical gambit by the United Empire forces manages to strike a devastating blow to the Divine Navy's forces
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I legitimately wouldn't be that surprised if, after this defeat (depending on which option we choose), the wheels begin to completely come off the Solar Empire, albeit possibly in slow motion. My worry was basically that it was desperate necessity that actually led to a lot of the Less-Bad Empire's reforms, and that history has shown that elites willing to consider reforms when the going gets tough are often, though not always, quite relived when newfound prosperity or a lack of threat allows them to walk it back and just go back to the way things were 'supposed' to be.
Of course, that itself is predicated on the Solar Empire basically starting to fall to pieces.
Of course, that itself is predicated on the Solar Empire basically starting to fall to pieces.
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MacroDaemon
Lachrymose Lapis
Personally, I hope that if this is going to be a defeat for the Solar Empire, then they start collapsing into riots and rebellion which lead to it becoming a Republic. The Exiles on the other hand would not have the ships or manpower to pursue reclaiming their old holdings even if they win.
Throughout this story, the characters are fairly likable, but I don't want the Exiles to win either. Overall, their system of government also makes them assholes.
Throughout this story, the characters are fairly likable, but I don't want the Exiles to win either. Overall, their system of government also makes them assholes.
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- madison
the present admiral is not a fanatic, so he's unlikely to suicide attack.
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Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
Based on what we've seen of the (rightful) United Solar Empire outside of Lori and Daystar, I wouldn't be surprised if this was one of those times where having an absolute monarch to reign in the nobles is actually better for the common folk. And this goes double for the usurpers, considering that the ones with any power there are more or less defined by being zealous, greedy and/or assholes.
It's not like being a republic is a panacea against becoming a defacto oligarchy.
He doesn't have a choice. They cut their own escape.
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Have an absolute monarch to reign in the nobles is good until it isn't. It just takes one particularly incompetent or kind of evil monarch to make the wheels come off of everything, and if the aristocracy has been defanged enough, you end up without any checks on that and an overall weaker state ready to fall. This Empire does have a more formalised bureaucracy and military, at least. Daystar in particular probably isn't evil anyway, barring me doing something stupid like having the death of her closest friend and advisor make her turn into murder queen, burner of worlds.
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See: The Solar Emperor, who managed to turn a regular-evil Empire (but I repeat myself.
) into a super-evil, Star Wars Tier Evil Empire.