If there is no need for a write in then it won't be used. It is better to have the write in as a contingency that isn't used than not and regret it. We don't control when Packrat decides a scene ends or when a scene has an appropriate point for us to respond.
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You Are: A sector admiral of a strained imperium.
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If there is no need for a write in then it won't be used. It is better to have the write in as a contingency that isn't used than not and regret it. We don't control when Packrat decides a scene ends or when a scene has an appropriate point for us to respond.
The bolded will be raised regardless.
We're being asked how we choose to frame it.
This basically blames Ranca for going beyond her remit.
This blames the Viscountess for choosing to press things, even after a superior officer had ordered her arrest, and her champion had been defeated in a legal duel, she jumped an experienced duelist and paid the price.
This is the by the book option, and the one most likely to result in official action I think.
This takes the blame on yourself.
If you trust the Governor, or want to frame things as being the action of an Imperial loyalist/someone loyal to the Imperial House/the Empire, this is the option. It's also the most likely option to have the entire thing buried officially as "death by misadventure" and taken up by Imperial Intelligence.
Your choice will affect how the Governor thinks of us.
Choose as you will.
Álli Méra
Sometimes I forget my name
Except those people who seem to flit from faction to faction. Can't trust those
*shifty Eyes*
[X] It Was Resisting Arrest. You were going to arrest the Viscountess for treachery. She had the right to duel as a noble, but make no mistake, she was resisting arrest. Of course you do not really have proof other than your words.
[X] It Was Resisting Arrest.
I'm thinking that the 'She was Dangerous, We Killed Her' makes us seems like we were being proactive and deliberately chose to kill the Viscountess, rather than being forced into our course of actions by her own actions. It can be twisted to make it seem that we were looking to kill her for our own motives.
I'm thinking that the 'She was Dangerous, We Killed Her' makes us seems like we were being proactive and deliberately chose to kill the Viscountess, rather than being forced into our course of actions by her own actions. It can be twisted to make it seem that we were looking to kill her for our own motives.
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- USA
[X] She Was Dangerous. You Killed Her. The Viscountess was dangerous, a traitor, she would have pulled the Empire into a war to further her own position in a hope to become Empress. It is much neater that she is gone in a duel, a natural form of death for young nobles, leaving her unable to defend herself. The governor general is sensible enough to realize the truth of this.
Night
Widow Null
- Location
- Hoff
No, but when we pick the salad fork for the dinner it's...unwise to mention it. A strange man, that Reinhard; but a brilliant one. Deadly too. Best to allow him his ways.
WyrmofFrost
One whose Muse delights in being coy
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- USA
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[X] She Was Dangerous. You Killed Her. The Viscountess was dangerous, a traitor, she would have pulled the Empire into a war to further her own position in a hope to become Empress. It is much neater that she is gone in a duel, a natural form of death for young nobles, leaving her unable to defend herself. The governor general is sensible enough to realize the truth of this.
SirLagginton
Shadow Cabal Caerbannog Bun-Bun
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- Arrrghhh
Mph, fair enough.
[X] She Was Dangerous. You Killed Her. The Viscountess was dangerous, a traitor, she would have pulled the Empire into a war to further her own position in a hope to become Empress. It is much neater that she is gone in a duel, a natural form of death for young nobles, leaving her unable to defend herself. The governor general is sensible enough to realize the truth of this.
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- canada
[] Ranca did a Ranca Thing. Ranca kills people, she kills somebody in a duel every few months. She already demanded to fight the Viscountess due to her dishonourable refusal to accept the monitor's surrender and just did her usual thing in the duel. Obviously the Viscountess was dishonourable given she lost the duel after refusing to accept the defeat of her champion.
[] It Was Resisting Arrest. You were going to arrest the Viscountess for treachery. She had the right to duel as a noble, but make no mistake, she was resisting arrest. Of course you do not really have proof other than your words.
[] She Was Dangerous. You Killed Her. The Viscountess was dangerous, a traitor, she would have pulled the Empire into a war to further her own position in a hope to become Empress. It is much neater that she is gone in a duel, a natural form of death for young nobles, leaving her unable to defend herself. The governor general is sensible enough to realize the truth of this.
[] Other. Write in.
........ FK THIS SHIT I'M OUT!
I do't feel like any of these options are bad nor are they good.... but they are all terrifying to me in how they could go wrong so I am leaving this up to more skilled voters.
[] It Was Resisting Arrest. You were going to arrest the Viscountess for treachery. She had the right to duel as a noble, but make no mistake, she was resisting arrest. Of course you do not really have proof other than your words.
[] She Was Dangerous. You Killed Her. The Viscountess was dangerous, a traitor, she would have pulled the Empire into a war to further her own position in a hope to become Empress. It is much neater that she is gone in a duel, a natural form of death for young nobles, leaving her unable to defend herself. The governor general is sensible enough to realize the truth of this.
[] Other. Write in.
........ FK THIS SHIT I'M OUT!
I do't feel like any of these options are bad nor are they good.... but they are all terrifying to me in how they could go wrong so I am leaving this up to more skilled voters.
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- Moon-Station
[X] It Was Resisting Arrest. You were going to arrest the Viscountess for treachery. She had the right to duel as a noble, but make no mistake, she was resisting arrest. Of course you do not really have proof other than your words.
I rushed out a write in because I felt the same way. @Snowfire write up something good, keep it short and I"ll vote for it.
- Location
- Canada
[X] Plan Honour and Guilt
-[X] Viscountess Arslan had dishonoured the Imperium even before she courted treason, by refusing the honourable surrender of enemy forces who had fought well. That she then attempted to double down on this with a treasonous offer only proves that she was not worthy of her position, or her command.
-[X] More than that, she was a danger to the Imperium, wishing to drag it into another war with the NASP for no other reason than her desire for advancement, and at the cost of an entire world. Any war that might have come from that, would have been far bloodier than the first, given her desired flashpoint of planetary scale genocide.
-[X] She made her arrest a point of honour, something we granted her despite her having forsaken any claim to it. When her champion was defeated, she resorted to further violence instead of submitting to the law. This, more than anything else, is proof of her guilt.
-[X] Viscountess Arslan had dishonoured the Imperium even before she courted treason, by refusing the honourable surrender of enemy forces who had fought well. That she then attempted to double down on this with a treasonous offer only proves that she was not worthy of her position, or her command.
-[X] More than that, she was a danger to the Imperium, wishing to drag it into another war with the NASP for no other reason than her desire for advancement, and at the cost of an entire world. Any war that might have come from that, would have been far bloodier than the first, given her desired flashpoint of planetary scale genocide.
-[X] She made her arrest a point of honour, something we granted her despite her having forsaken any claim to it. When her champion was defeated, she resorted to further violence instead of submitting to the law. This, more than anything else, is proof of her guilt.
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Modus_Tollens
SCREAMING AT THE APOCALYPSE
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Its because the dinner fork was of better use as a weapon if we were forced to kill the man seated to our left. When we use the 'wrong' fork, that men acquires a sudden cold sweat.
[X] It Was Resisting Arrest. You were going to arrest the Viscountess for treachery. She had the right to duel as a noble, but make no mistake, she was resisting arrest. Of course you do not really have proof other than your words.
Even if this isn't throwing Ranca to the wolves, it is saying we're not at fault and reads as if we're shrugging it off as a "Ranca thing". It wouldn't persuade me if I was the Governor General.
Thinking it over, the intent by @Packrat may actually be a dismissive, trivializing attitude while we try to keep the Governor General focused on the other points where we have a stronger argument to make.
Even if this isn't throwing Ranca to the wolves, it is saying we're not at fault and reads as if we're shrugging it off as a "Ranca thing". It wouldn't persuade me if I was the Governor General.
Thinking it over, the intent by @Packrat may actually be a dismissive, trivializing attitude while we try to keep the Governor General focused on the other points where we have a stronger argument to make.
Snowfire
Polyglot of Chimera
- Location
- Wordcats
I'll batter out a short set of directional intent. Long conversational votes don't seem to have much value.
They have value when the person or people we're speaking to won't interrupt us, like the speech at the parade.
None of them are trap options, keep in mind that the Governor General is an Imperial prince who is keenly aware that House Arslan is after the throne.
A dead ducal heir is a huge issue politically but you also just did something double impossible and are returning with loot and captured ships worth more than most planets.
A dead ducal heir is a huge issue politically but you also just did something double impossible and are returning with loot and captured ships worth more than most planets.
Kufufu
Adequate at best
- Location
- What's it to ya?
We were one point off.
I would understand if we just didn't decrypt it in time to show the governor immediately but it being impossible seems harsh.
Forgothrax
Not Going Gently
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I'm more steamed we didn't have Sones working on it.
Sones is commanding another ship and pretty busy with it!
Also a success would not have decrypted anything, it would have just found vaguely incriminating quasi evidence, unless you got a really good success, then more incriminating quasi evidence. The viscountess did have Subterfuge 13 and access to really good security along with the best possible implants.
Also a success would not have decrypted anything, it would have just found vaguely incriminating quasi evidence, unless you got a really good success, then more incriminating quasi evidence. The viscountess did have Subterfuge 13 and access to really good security along with the best possible implants.