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Semper Ad Meliora (Code Geass/Britannian Royalty Quest)

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JaceAoT said:
So that's really interesting, seeing as I feel Bertrand Smith is the one most likely doing something that's really bad for us.
Dr Kenshin Jaegar is a well-known lunatic, and it's more specifically well-known that he's a lunatic. If he says something insane, people won't be too offended. This is even reflected in the mechanics.


Moreover his partner is completely sane. She is likely used to making excuses for his bad behaviour and I'd say it's more than likely she keeps his insanity at bay in some sense, restricting the really crazy crazy that's probably inside him.


Bertrand Smith on the other hand is well-known to do criminal things and have an almost complete disregard for what is against the law. The update specifically states that he likes doing things that are against the law for thrill.


In addition his partner has the same flaws and they complement each other in this bad behaviour.

All in all these seem like the sort of people we don't want to be our problem. The intrigue seems to suit us nicely, but it's really not in a way that I would like us to do intrigue.
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I'm certain that we can fix Bertrand and manage to convince him to reign in his desire to break the law for the thrill of it as we raise his SL. Also, unlike the other two choices, Bertrand has to be taken now or the OSI will take him instead. No matter what, we can not allow the OSI to get him, as it would heavily boost their capabilities of finding out secrets, which would become problematic for someone like us, who is specialized in Intrigue, if there's a situation where the OSI is investigating us.
 
Oof. This is a hard one.

[ ] Bertrand Smith
Perfect combo with our Intrigue/Martial build. Could probably result in drone carriers, which should be nasty. Also, a lot of a Knightmares size is in the pilot pod...

[ ] Dr. Hugo Zhishi
The Advanced Knightmare option, but the guy is a pacifist... seems like the Diplo/Stewardship option. Euphie would like them probably. Not a great fit for us I think. I am also concerned about Lizzy...

[ ] Dr. Kenshin Jaegar
Magitech! History! Lore! Would build on our Psy talent, the sphere, and our Alchemist trait. Might give us some defenses again Geass wielders.

I will go with:

[X] Dr. Kenshin Jaegar

For the lore, magic, and to identify and prepare for the more exotic OOC threats in this world. We can get strong military and intrigue in other ways, but Psy is rare and hard.

Might result in us building an army of magitech ninjas while everyone races after the shiny new Knightmare tech. Also magitech knightmare superprototypes.
 
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[X] Dr. Kenshin Jaegar

This gives us Astrophysics, our enemies shall be crushed under our Spacecraft. Mining from asteroids and other planets will give us great income. We will spread our domain so we rule the stars, colonize other planets under our rule for the Empire.
 
[X] Dr. Kenshin Jaegar

I do agree with the people pointing out that we have far more ways to gain good intrigue and martial while psy is a lot harder. Which is why we should take advantage of the fact that we found a real treasure with our psionic orb with the QM themselves calling us a lucky bastard for finding it and Jaegar seems like he would know a lot more about something like this considering what we just learned about him.
 
Whatever research we might get from Jaegar regarding Astrophysics, Archaeology and Psionics isn't going to matter if someone manages to break our cyber-security and find out all of our secrets and whatever research we have that we've kept a secret from the rest of Britannia, and if the OSI gets their hands on Bertrand, then the chance of our cyber-security being broken increases heavily. By taking Bertrand now, we make sure that no one can make use of him against us. Kenshin Jaegar isn't going anywhere, we could still try and recruit him later.
 
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ThatGuyWithIdeas said:
Whatever research we might get from Jaegar regarding Astrophysics, Archaeology and Psionics isn't going to matter if someone manages to break our cyber-security and find out all of our secrets and whatever research we have that we've kept a secret from the rest of Britannia, and if the OSI gets their hands on Bertrand, then the chance of our cyber-security being broken increases heavily. By taking Bertrand now, we make sure that no one can make use of him against us. Kenshin Jaegar isn't going anywhere, we could still try and recruit him later.
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I would say we could just assassinate the guy, but that probably wouldn't work out.
 
Tjakari said:
I would say we could just assassinate the guy, but that probably wouldn't work out.
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At that point he is an Imperial asset and we just killed him for no cause at all. Now if we had more feats under our belt then maybe we could do it but as it is he could probably spy on all our research if he felt like it. And we have recently come across a lot of new information. We can always recruit the eccentric/crazy person later.
 
[X] Dr. Kenshin Jaegar

We know there's something more to Psionics than is generally known thanks to the orb. Jaegar also seems to believe there something more if his thesis got him kicked out and blacklisted. I say its a perfect match. The fact that he is a polyglot and escape artist with combat experience (essentially making him his own security detail) and we also get Astrophysics and Archaeology bonuses is just icing on the cake.

Also he's probably about as right 'The Organization' here as he was in Steins; Gate and that probably factors into the mystery of why his asylum request was accepted. Shadowy research organization that likely is stymieing serious research into Psionics relatively accurately describes the Geass Directorate as delving to deep into that subject could potentially reveal code and geass to the world.
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ThatGuyWithIdeas said:
Whatever research we might get from Jaegar regarding Astrophysics, Archaeology and Psionics isn't going to matter if someone manages to break our cyber-security and find out all of our secrets and whatever research we have that we've kept a secret from the rest of Britannia, and if the OSI gets their hands on Bertrand, then the chance of our cyber-security being broken increases heavily. By taking Bertrand now, we make sure that no one can make use of him against us. Kenshin Jaegar isn't going anywhere, we could still try and recruit him later.
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You seem to be under the impression that Bertrand is the only super-hacker on the planet. Consider how many genius mech designers showed up in canon. Consider how many impossibly competent social and political manipulators there were. Consider how many transcendently skilled pilots are knocking about.
It is utter folly to think we can deny such capabilities to all the dozens of opposing factions we must contend with.

You can argue that Bertrand would be great to have to defend against enemy hackers. But we can get other cyber-security experts a heck of a lot easier than we can find someone else who knows about and can help us against the psi-conspiracy.
 
CC: A supposed mad-man doing research that got him blacklisted and caused considerable damage to everywhere he's been with huge question marks as to how he got to Britannia to begin with?

CC: *raised eyebrow* You people do realize that means that he's probably running from VV and the directorate, right? Which also means he probably knows about me and Geass. Which means he's not just crazy, he's RIGHT.

CC: *cackling* Genius and madness are separated by a thin line. Someone clearly thinks he's onto something. If you don't take him, VV will. :drevil:

CC: I trust you'll make the right decision. ;)

[X] Dr. Kenshin Jaegar
 
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