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We Are the Gods of a New World Order [Warhammer 50K ~ Warp God Simulator]

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[X] The Azure Dragoons
[X] Prince Sendai's Expedition

We have a debt to the Dragoons, the least we can do is call them first and see what they need. Prince Sendai is a obviously violent wildcard, opening communications with him gives us the chance of directing him or seeing if he is willing to do some non lethal combat.
 
Faraway-R said:
I've been told that Necrons are likely to defeat the Publicani handily if they fight.

All the more reason to Inform the Publicani - if they take Necrontyr threat seriously they just might leave than get entangled in this battle.
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I'm curious - what benefit do we get from informing them now, as opposed to them noticing the Necrons on their own? I mean, it is not like this is going to stay a secret for long.
 
Black.Horus said:
I don't think so. This Prince Sendai is clearly seeking a battle. So he most likely going to shoot first than ask. I think it is much better for us to contact them now and told him that there are much more interesting Publicani Fleet for them to bash their head in than us. Also this will also going to be a good distraction for the Dragoons and the Mage to come port if they decide to battle in space.
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But that was exactly my point. He seems the kind of person (maybe because of his culture) who will shoot you and your allies after declaring his intent to do so, lets have a jolly good time killing/competing against each other good old chaps. Then if we survive and he is satisfied with the battles we had, and his forces didn't get too crushed, he might go "Good times, good times! No hard feelings, right?" and we might be able to then diplomance him.

Or that is my reading about him, anyway.
 
Faraway-R said:
I've been told that Necrons are likely to defeat the Publicani handily if they fight.

All the more reason to Inform the Publicani - if they take Necrontyr threat seriously they just might leave than get entangled in this battle.
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The necrontyr has a fair chance at killing everything in the star system but maybe Yggdrassil and the fucking sun. I say maybe because its entirely possible he could kill those too.
 
PrimalShadow said:
I'm curious - what benefit do we get from informing them now, as opposed to them noticing the Necrons on their own? I mean, it is not like this is going to stay a secret for long.
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Right now they think they will have no extra trouble, and they can afford to commit.

Presence of indiscriminately hostile Necrontyr in apparently superior spaceships will change the calculus greatly. If they aren't yet committed, they have less chance to stick around.
 
cheesyme said:
The necrontyr has a fair chance at killing everything in the star system but maybe Yggdrassil and the fucking sun. I say maybe because its entirely possible he could kill those too.
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The question is if they want to go actually that far. This Prince seems to be looking more to have epic fights and good time, and those two are uncomfortably close to each other for us and anybody else in the system currently.
 
Faraway-R said:
I've been told that Necrons are likely to defeat the Publicani handily if they fight.

All the more reason to Inform the Publicani - if they take Necrontyr threat seriously they just might leave than get entangled in this battle.

[X] The Publicani Fleet

[ ] The Ancient Vessel

[ ] Prince Sendai's Expedition

[X] The Azure Dragoons
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"Oh shit theres xenos here? fuck lets go somewhere else"
 
Aren't the Publicani vessels stuffed to the brim with millions of innocent colonists? It would, frankly, be wildly OOC for the VM to sic a Necron battleship on that sort of target.
 
meianmaru said:
But that was exactly my point. He seems the kind of person (maybe because of his culture) who will shoot you and your allies after declaring his intent to do so, lets have a jolly good time killing/competing against each other good old chaps. Then if we survive and he is satisfied with the battles we had, and his forces didn't get too crushed, he might go "Good times, good times! No hard feelings, right?" and we might be able to then diplomance him.

Or that is my reading about him, anyway.
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My reason is for the Prince to attack the Publicani First. He is more likely to listen now when there is still time before he is close to the planet, either to pass the tìme or for hearing enemies last words then literally when they are just about to shoot.

Telling the mages now are also more likely than not going to make them leg it out of the system rather then deal with all these mess. They are clearly seem to look for someplace to rest rather than a battle.
 
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So, as I voted, Azure Dragoons cause we owe them one, and Ancient Vessel, cause most likely our sibling. Plus this set up seems like the best way to turn this from a five-way clusterfuck to a three-way kerfuffle
 
PrimalShadow said:
I disagree. Yes, their presence was advantageous to us a while back, but that was entirely coincidental on Azure's part. In fact, if you recall he threw down stuff to distract us while he left after scouting our planet out for looting after we were bombed to death.

I'm not antagonistic to the guy, but to say that we owe him a favor is far too much credit.
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A favor owed is a favor owed, even if it was on accident.

And this was on accident.

But that doesn't mean the outcome wasn't heavily in our favor, and something that wouldn't have been so easy or favorable without their unintentional assistance.

[X] The Azure Dragoons
[X] The Ancient Vessel
 
PrimalShadow said:
I don't think he has time to commit before the news gets to him.
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The reason we can contact him is because literally lightspeed limit is what prevents him from knowing.

That is hours to days in which he is accelerating towards us in sublight speed, aka the very same time he will need to turn around and leave.

Not even the same. The same to stop. And then again to get to the edge of the system. Twice as much time to leave.
 
Black.Horus said:
My reason is for the Prince to attack the Publicani First. He is more likely to listen now when there is still time before he is close to the planet, either to pass the tìme or for hearing enemies last words then literally when they are just about to shoot.
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I feel that that level of ruthlessness is far too 40k era decisionmaking for the tone we are trying to push for the quest and VM. The Publicani fleet is far too full of innocent colonists for it to be incharacter for the Verdant Maiden to sic Necrons on. We're supposed to be kinder than the galaxy, not to try and out-bastard every bastard in the galaxy because even though questers do like to be the hard men, we are not going to be able to out bastard 40k factions.
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Does she know it IC though?
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I was under the impression that Dana explained that the most likely outcome was the tax collector coming back with a fresh colonization contract?
 
Well, the Azure Dragoons are a given by now. The Publicani i doubt we can negotiate with. AM is a wild card: if we don't contact her, she could either go and loot our stuff amidst the chaos, f*ck up a roll and (possibly? depends on what the Publicani and Necrons have) outright die. The latter is unlikely to happen; more likely, she'd just lose a bunch of cohesion, as well as a ship. If we do contact her... well, the results are hard to predict, but i would like to remind everyone that it's not a given that it's not strictly necessary that VM and AM will get along with each other. Also, contacting her makes us lose the opportunity to, hopefully, RNGesus willing, sick the necrons on the Publicani (i'm assuming VM doesn't know about the colonists), though i fear that they'd be more interested in fighting the marines.

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Come to think of it, it would make the most narrative sense for the necrons to want to beat up the marines should they learn of them, who are possibly, at the least, hoping for temporary sanctuary; space marines are supposed to be the cream of the crop among the
now-actually-genuinely-competent imperial troops, and a thrill-seeker may wish to cross swords with only the best.
 
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Genolution said:
I was under the impression that Dana explained that the most likely outcome was the tax collector coming back with a fresh colonization contract?
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Not Dana, at any rate. I don't know if the VM knows or not.

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[The Publicani's holds are filled, he has made a tidy profit with this expedition and ignores the reports about a rising cult in the world--after all, they'll be dead by the next time he does his rounds anyway. He sends his landers off to press gang the PDF from the walls, and departs the system, pleased with his gains and equally pleased with the likelyhood of a recolonization contract when he returns.]
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We certainly do OOC.
 
Genolution said:
I feel that that level of ruthlessness is far too 40k era decisionmaking for the tone we are trying to push for the quest and VM. The Publicani fleet is far too full of innocent colonists for it to be incharacter for the Verdant Maiden to sic Necrons on. We're supposed to be kinder than the galaxy, not to try and out-bastard every bastard in the galaxy because even though questers do like to be the hard men, we are not going to be able to out bastard 40k factions.
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I literally can't argue you on that one. That is pretty much in character of how the Maiden should be acting.
 
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