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[X] Duel Her. Probably not very wise, her record states she is pretty dangerous with a blade. If you win then you can probably take her into custody without any issues and have retroactively justified your accusations, losing however would be very bad even if she does not kill you.

This option seems like the most consistent with our actions the last few updates.
 
No point in risking Ranca; board her.

[X] Send Ranca. Ranca already wanted to duel the Viscountess, you can argue that she has precedence there and have her duel in your stead. She will probably win but if she loses? Again, that would make your accusations against the Viscountess be generally viewed in society as false and anything she does in retaliation 'putting you in your place'. In comparison to personally duelling this would mute the advantages of winning as well as being a lot more likely to succeed.
 
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[X] Arrest Her. She has no right to challenge a senior officer to a duel during active combat, it is arguably illegal. Hard dock the Sword of Democracy with her cruiser and arrest her. You have a faster ship and a vastly larger marine complement, they would be suicidal to resist. This could get messy if her other ships intervene but things are still overwhelmingly in your favour.
 
[X] Arrest Her. She has no right to challenge a senior officer to a duel during active combat, it is arguably illegal. Hard dock the Sword of Democracy with her cruiser and arrest her. You have a faster ship and a vastly larger marine complement, they would be suicidal to resist. This could get messy if her other ships intervene but things are still overwhelmingly in your favour.

She's planning treason, and is pissed enough that she's preparing to fight us ship to ship. I don't buy for half a second that she wouldn't pull some shit with a duel.
 
[X] Arrest Her. She has no right to challenge a senior officer to a duel during active combat, it is arguably illegal. Hard dock the Sword of Democracy with her cruiser and arrest her. You have a faster ship and a vastly larger marine complement, they would be suicidal to resist. This could get messy if her other ships intervene but things are still overwhelmingly in your favour.

Lets go with the almost guaranteed to succeed option guys.
 
[X] Send Ranca. Ranca already wanted to duel the Viscountess, you can argue that she has precedence there and have her duel in your stead. She will probably win but if she loses? Again, that would make your accusations against the Viscountess be generally viewed in society as false and anything she does in retaliation 'putting you in your place'. In comparison to personally duelling this would mute the advantages of winning as well as being a lot more likely to succeed.

guys we have ZERO chance of people believing us if we arrest her conventionally with Ranca dueling her we have a fairly high chance of killing her and the imperium will be more likely to let this go/believe us given there is nothing to gain by taking her side.
 
[X] Arrest Her. She has no right to challenge a senior officer to a duel during active combat, it is arguably illegal. Hard dock the Sword of Democracy with her cruiser and arrest her. You have a faster ship and a vastly larger marine complement, they would be suicidal to resist. This could get messy if her other ships intervene but things are still overwhelmingly in your favour.
 
The physically riskiest option is also the most politically "safe" one if it succeeds and then it inverts.

Arresting her is going to be a political hellhole, but might work out. We also don't risk getting killed or maimed, at least.

Anyone have the stats on a Prowess 12 v Prowess 13 fight?
 
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[X] Send Ranca. Ranca already wanted to duel the Viscountess, you can argue that she has precedence there and have her duel in your stead. She will probably win but if she loses? Again, that would make your accusations against the Viscountess be generally viewed in society as false and anything she does in retaliation 'putting you in your place'. In comparison to personally duelling this would mute the advantages of winning as well as being a lot more likely to succeed.

guys we have ZERO chance of people believing us if we arrest her conventionally with Ranca dueling her we have a fairly high chance of killing her and the imperium will be more likely to let this go/believe us given there is nothing to gain by taking her side.
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Kills during duels are heavily frowned upon. And did you read the arrest her description? Duels during combat are not okay according to the law.
 
[X] Send Ranca. Ranca already wanted to duel the Viscountess, you can argue that she has precedence there and have her duel in your stead. She will probably win but if she loses? Again, that would make your accusations against the Viscountess be generally viewed in society as false and anything she does in retaliation 'putting you in your place'. In comparison to personally duelling this would mute the advantages of winning as well as being a lot more likely to succeed.

Ranca has a good chance of winning and this will save us from losing as much forces or sustaining damage if we can take her out this way (assuming her forces will comply to an extent after her loss).
 
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Guys, what was it she said about us? We're a commoner?

Well, we don't fight noble style like a pretty ponce.

[X] Arrest Her. She has no right to challenge a senior officer to a duel during active combat, it is arguably illegal. Hard dock the Sword of Democracy with her cruiser and arrest her. You have a faster ship and a vastly larger marine complement, they would be suicidal to resist. This could get messy if her other ships intervene but things are still overwhelmingly in your favour.
 
@Rat King It would be opposed rolls of Prowess + 3d6, each of you with ten 'hit points' and the winner being whomever got the other down to zero first.

I am not sure what the exact odds of winning with a skill 1 lower is, but there it is for anyone who wants to work it out.

(Yes, it was 20 hitpoints/durability in the pit fight, but for this you would both be wearing powered armour that makes you immensely stronger but also does not slow down energy blades).
 
Hmm. If we remove her from power even halfway conventionally, this will end better for us. I'm immensely tempted to just go for the hard Arrest option, but the duel is probably better even if it's Ranca acting as our sword. More information required.

@Packrat if we accept the duel, where will it take place? Or would violating the 'sanctity' of a duel be so utterly against everything the Imperium stands for that if the Viscountess does so she might as well slit her own throat? This is rather important. Also if we sent Ranca, would she be going alone or with an escort? Again, it matters.
 
[X] Arrest Her. She has no right to challenge a senior officer to a duel during active combat, it is arguably illegal. Hard dock the Sword of Democracy with her cruiser and arrest her. You have a faster ship and a vastly larger marine complement, they would be suicidal to resist. This could get messy if her other ships intervene but things are still overwhelmingly in your favour.
 
[X] Send Ranca. Ranca already wanted to duel the Viscountess, you can argue that she has precedence there and have her duel in your stead. She will probably win but if she loses? Again, that would make your accusations against the Viscountess be generally viewed in society as false and anything she does in retaliation 'putting you in your place'. In comparison to personally duelling this would mute the advantages of winning as well as being a lot more likely to succeed.​
 
@Snowfire If she interfered with a duel and was caught then she would be a complete pariah and stripped of any naval rank, also it would be viewed as 'proving' your accusations of treason correct.

A duel would probably take place on the Sword of Democracy though, you have the bigger ship and also she issued the challenge.
 
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@Snowfire If she interfered with a duel and was caught then she would be a complete pariah and stripped of any naval rank, also it would be viewed as 'proving' your accusations of treason correct.

A duel would probably take place on the Sword of Democracy though, you have the bigger ship and also she issued the challenge.
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Well in that case, I see no reason to not indulge her. I suspected we'd be getting the pick of place given she challenged us, but knowing for certain helps. It also means that we can have a security contingent watching her like a hawk. Just have to hope that Ranca can keep her bloodlust under control.

[X] Send Ranca

Edit: just as a note people, assuming average rolls on both sides Ranca will drop the Viscountess in three rounds.
 
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[X] Send Ranca. Ranca already wanted to duel the Viscountess, you can argue that she has precedence there and have her duel in your stead. She will probably win but if she loses? Again, that would make your accusations against the Viscountess be generally viewed in society as false and anything she does in retaliation 'putting you in your place'. In comparison to personally duelling this would mute the advantages of winning as well as being a lot more likely to succeed.
 
[X] Send Ranca. Ranca already wanted to duel the Viscountess, you can argue that she has precedence there and have her duel in your stead. She will probably win but if she loses? Again, that would make your accusations against the Viscountess be generally viewed in society as false and anything she does in retaliation 'putting you in your place'. In comparison to personally duelling this would mute the advantages of winning as well as being a lot more likely to succeed.
 
[X] Send Ranca

I look forward to the coming bloodshed.
The harlot made a quick enemy of us these past few updates.

We're also going to have to see about those whom failed their loyalty checks.
I suspect we will soon have room for a few subordinates promotions.
 
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Ranca losing would be too big a debacle, worse than the fallout of the sure-win option.

[X] Arrest Her. She has no right to challenge a senior officer to a duel during active combat, it is arguably illegal. Hard dock the Sword of Democracy with her cruiser and arrest her. You have a faster ship and a vastly larger marine complement, they would be suicidal to resist. This could get messy if her other ships intervene but things are still overwhelmingly in your favour.
 
As a note this kind of thing is why the Personal Combat focus was at least supposed to be a valid choice. It would have given you Prowess 19 as an Imperial or Ducal scion (18 with your commoner background) and you could have gotten away with virtually whatever you wanted to. Then if anyone argued with it, challenged them to a duel before cutting them down and being viewed as correct by society unless you indulged a disturbing lust for murder like Ranca.
 
[X] Arrest Her. She has no right to challenge a senior officer to a duel during active combat, it is arguably illegal. Hard dock the Sword of Democracy with her cruiser and arrest her. You have a faster ship and a vastly larger marine complement, they would be suicidal to resist. This could get messy if her other ships intervene but things are still overwhelmingly in your favour.
 
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As a note this kind of thing is why the Personal Combat focus was at least supposed to be a valid choice. It would have given you Prowess 19 as an Imperial or Ducal scion (18 with your commoner background) and you could have gotten away with virtually whatever you wanted to. Then if anyone argued with it, challenged them to a duel before cutting them down and being viewed as correct by society unless you indulged a disturbing lust for murder like Ranca.
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Well, if there are stat training actions we can take in the system, I know what we're raising after Diplomacy.
 
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