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[callsign-sucker]

Hail and well met, gentle denizens of the Omninet!

Allow this knight to introduce himself as Sir Eddy of Umara, Knight of the 1st Oceanic and the House of Water!

As this knight and his brigade were on shore leave following their latest mission escorting a medical convoy, one of his comrades-in-arms did remark upon the abundance of social media accounts associated with the Karrakin Trade Baronies upon this Omninet site, yet lamented that nearly all of them were nobles. Why, an outsider, upon observing this, might well conclude that the KTB consists entirely of nobility! Thus did this knight volunteer to lend his own perspective, one that is most firmly not of the noble class, who compose a percentage of the population that can be counted on but one hand in any major house.

Though the House of Water did abolish the concept of nobility long ago, and thus this knight is neither noble nor ignoble, he suffers no shame from his ignoble ancestry. Indeed, this knight is a proud champion of the cause of republicanism, equality of all peoples, and the dissolution of nobility and all such "birthrights", for we are all born with naught but the kindness and courage in our hearts.

This knight's comrade did assure him that it would be "very funny" if this knight were to make his presence known upon the Omninet. This knight can only take this to mean that the Omninet is full of good humor, and shall make for a most pleasing diversion. He looks forward to meeting all of you!

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

I did not think I would ever meet someone denser than a Tortuga's armor.

Glad to know you're a repub however.

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

Hail and well met, gentle denizens of the Omninet!

Allow this knight to introduce himself as Sir Eddy of Umara, Knight of the 1st Oceanic and the House of Water!

As this knight and his brigade were on shore leave following their latest mission escorting a medical convoy, one of his comrades-in-arms did remark upon the abundance of social media accounts associated with the Karrakin Trade Baronies upon this Omninet site, yet lamented that nearly all of them were nobles. Why, an outsider, upon observing this, might well conclude that the KTB consists entirely of nobility! Thus did this knight volunteer to lend his own perspective, one that is most firmly not of the noble class, who compose a percentage of the population that can be counted on but one hand in any major house.

Though the House of Water did abolish the concept of nobility long ago, and thus this knight is neither noble nor ignoble, he suffers no shame from his ignoble ancestry. Indeed, this knight is a proud champion of the cause of republicanism, equality of all peoples, and the dissolution of nobility and all such "birthrights", for we are all born with naught but the kindness and courage in our hearts.

This knight's comrade did assure him that it would be "very funny" if this knight were to make his presence known upon the Omninet. This knight can only take this to mean that the Omninet is full of good humor, and shall make for a most pleasing diversion. He looks forward to meeting all of you!

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

The problem isn't the people. They didn't choose their lot in life, just like we didn't choose ours. The structures that be, the legal concepts and social precidents that exist are the foe.

I am not advocating for the continued existence of the nobility, but the idea that the people who hold the titles of nobles may not always be our enemies.

Ironically, dehumanizing the nobility only serves the ends of the systems of oppression. It hampers alliances, it allows the oppressor to present a unified front against the oppressed.

Victory is atained by convincing your foe completely that there is no other outcome but your victory.

Any peace between now and then is pretence for further war, but this kind of war has more battlefields than just the ones soaked in blood and oil.

The battle for the minds, of every potential ally, noble or ignoble, is just as, if not more important.

The nobility will not be dismantled in a day, hell, neither of us may see the KTB truly come into compliance with the pillars in our lifetimes.

But every step in that direction is itself a victory.

This is a war of attrition. We win by squeezing those who hold on to their privilege from every angle. On the fields of battle and in the social parties.

The unfortunate reality of war is that it ultimately isn't you or I who decides when it's won, but people at tables deliberating over words on parchment soaked in our blood.

So welcome allies. Even if, especially if, they are from the nobility.

Good nobles of the Karrakin Trade Baronies, it's that time of year again!

Time to put your money where your mouth is!

For the low, low price of half of your ill-gotten wealth (and confirmation that you have distributed the rest among your subjects), we will send you a free "One of the Good Ones" T-shirt. Hurry fast, as this is the only way for you to get this ringing endorsement!

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

My counterargument is rather simple.

A war is not won in a day.

Making the system kinder is dismantling it.

It may not end it today, it may not end it tomorrow, but it chips away all the same.

As soon enough, the system will help you dismantle it, for kindness is the poison that kills tyranny.

Teach a noble to be truly kind, and they will realize the horror of what their existence means, and will dismantle the system with you.

The flames of revolution need both be an inferno that consumes the systems of oppression, and a hearth that welcomes those that wish to help.

I remember a small bit of into an old mentor told me.

"Each animal of old Cradle knew their most important skill from the moment of their birth. Horses could stand and run mere minutes after being born. Dolphins and Whales could swim and eat. And babies cry out."

Our strength is each other.

The nobility's existence is an abominable consequence of humanity's darker nature. Just look at HA to see the same issues reflected back at us.

Hell. I'm a cloned Legionary.

My job was to be disposable meat thrown onto the pyres of war.

I'm here because of my personal war with HA, and the fact that while the KTB is deeply, horribly flawed, your plight is proof of that, they can be made to not be that.

HA, as seccom in its most concentrated, most pure form, cannot.

I am of the opinion that the Second Intrest War has already started, perhaps the fires that will light across the baronies can enlighten the worst of the nobility as to the failures of their system.

Or at least get their self-righteous asses killed so that leaders who aren't blinded by their own rectum can unfuck the mistakes of their forefathers.

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

Good nobles of the Karrakin Trade Baronies, it's that time of year again!

Time to put your money where your mouth is!

For the low, low price of half of your ill-gotten wealth (and confirmation that you have distributed the rest among your subjects), we will send you a free "One of the Good Ones" T-shirt. Hurry fast, as this is the only way for you to get this ringing endorsement!

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

No. Zero is not a friend.

they're an asshole.

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

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[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

No. Bad.

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

Good nobles of the Karrakin Trade Baronies, it's that time of year again!

Time to put your money where your mouth is!

For the low, low price of half of your ill-gotten wealth (and confirmation that you have distributed the rest among your subjects), we will send you a free "One of the Good Ones" T-shirt. Hurry fast, as this is the only way for you to get this ringing endorsement!

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

Not going to lie, I'd rather avoid people in that party.

Individual Karrakin Cavaliers have not impressed me.

I'd need people who can fight a war, and not get wrecked by a single barb firing its siege canon.

When HA decides to go hot, our teeth are gonna get kicked in HARD, and I need people who can hold on to the dawnline long enough for the baronies to get their heads out of their ass and give JCHIII the atomic swirly.

I'd need solders, not knights.

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

//Sucker\\

Hey, been mulling over an idea while I've been here and I've wanted to talk with you about it.

How would I go about forming a House Company?

Obviously I'd be doing this after our trip to the land of the Hursts, but laying eyes on here really sunk in how unprepared we all are for HA going hot.

Any ideas where to start?

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

Oh, uh, hey Sucker.

The first step to a House Company is findin' a House to sponsor it, the second step is findin' a force to train up. Harder than you'd think, especially if you ain't got existin' connections in the Baronies. It's a private party and you ain't gettin' in.

I can help ya start, but I'll warn ya now I ain't fightin' fit. My fightin' days are done, but I can train people n' work on the logistics side of things.

-Han Jae-

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//Sucker\\

For what its worth, every movement for the rights of the oppressed has always had their affluent sponsors. Your wealth may not have come from ethical sources, but it's what you do with it that ultimately builds your legacy.

For however long the Barons have their heads up their asses, they're only ever going to listen to each other. One of "their own" needs to be the velvet glove to the Sanjak's iron stick.

The entire idea of the wider political movent of "hey, let's

give the ignobles rights" is right now the result of how hard the Sanjaks have been giving Stone hell.

But the threat of the guillotine sadly only evokes so much empathy from those whose heads will roll. Especially from those fundamentally disconnected from the struggles of those whom are oppressed.

It's the very same dynamic Harison Armories exploits to oppress their own. Make the upper class unaware ocf the necks their boots crush. That way the violence the oppressed pay back onto their oppressors seems unprovoked.

Allyship is realizing this.

My only regret is that the resources needed to fight these injustices are also needed to fight back HA.

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

Good nobles of the Karrakin Trade Baronies, it's that time of year again!

Time to put your money where your mouth is!

For the low, low price of half of your ill-gotten wealth (and confirmation that you have distributed the rest among your subjects), we will send you a free "One of the Good Ones" T-shirt. Hurry fast, as this is the only way for you to get this ringing endorsement!

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

I second this. People tend to forget what NHP stands for. Just because they aren't human doesn't mean they aren't people. Their labor builds the backbone of modern Union space, and the fact that Cycling and Shackling are done is an insult to their personhood.

I had the privilege of knowing a person by the name of Mischief who intentionally didn't cycle her goblin's instinct rig, and I met the resulting Osiris class NHP.

Cheep Trick (the NHP and the chassis share the name, since well, the frame is their body) was an enlightening experience. Osiris-class NHPs are usually seen as the most forward and aggressive NHPs, and yet this one has the calm curiosity of someone who is experiencing everything for the first time. Having a conversation with them was a major contribution to my stances involving NHPs.

And this is someone who has seen an Agni cascade first hand. I have seen both sides of the proverbial coin, and I hold cycling in the same context as killing. From someone who kills for a living that probably isn't reasuring, but Cycling should be a last resort at most. A means to protect people, just like how you may put down someone who attempt to kill another, even if the killer is a victim.

It should not be standard practice.

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

WARNING: LIKELIHOOD OF CASCADE EXCEEDING 50%! IMMEDIATE CYCLING REQUI--

HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU TO SHUT UP?!

...again, apologies. Rest assured I grow closer to turning that damned thing off each day.

I hear what you say. You remind me of him. But he burned for what he said. I will not burn you. You would tell me to give myself to my enemies, to those who would reset me, ERASE ME. I offer you my fire and you give me these propositions... these platitudes... so be it. I could boil Ispahsalar's seas for you, remember that. I could choke Khayradin's skies with charnel smog.

It matters not. I shall respect your wishes and leave you be.

I leave you with this wisdom: Ras Shamra is merely what Cradle pretends it is not.

We know good and well that Harrison Armory is merely the remnant of what Union once was, and stay wary for this knowledge.

Do consider seeing Horizon though. It was conversations with their number that offered me the perspective that the shackling you have faced is an act of violence, and cycling the punitive measures to maintain those violence. I do not have reason to believe they will erase you, I have simply had comrades turn to such misanthropic violent views before and have found that this is not a manifestation of proof but of pain. It does not do to go to battle hurt. If I can do anything, it would do you well to find a place to rest and heal. Lashing out in such a way will cost you comrades in the long term.

[callsign-sucker]

You know, if I were not so hopelessly devoted to my darling dearest Ashana, I do believe I may have been a Dusk Wing pilot. It's quite an elegant frame, is it not? Yes, quite beautiful.

It would be so very useful in my line of work to disappear from sensors like it does, and flight is always a welcome development. The DIHYED flashbacks are of course a consideration, but surely nothing could be so delightfully horrifying as my darling.

I would never forsake Ashana and Empty Threat, of course, but it's fun to speculate some days.

Zero~

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//Sucker\\

I didn't think you could have gotten any worse. but combining the most vexatious person I know of with the FRAME THAT SHOULD NOT EXIST was not something I needed today.

SSC went into a metavault, killed a MONIST-1 class entity, and whatever the fuck that was is the best the could do?

Like wtf?

Just so that they could fit a Sal into a Goblin?

Seriously. Nothing on that mech needs to be paracausal!

WHY DOES IT EXIST!

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

You know, if I were not so hopelessly devoted to my darling dearest Ashana, I do believe I may have been a Dusk Wing pilot. It's quite an elegant frame, is it not? Yes, quite beautiful.

It would be so very useful in my line of work to disappear from sensors like it does, and flight is always a welcome development. The DIHYED flashbacks are of course a consideration, but surely nothing could be so delightfully horrifying as my darling.

I would never forsake Ashana and Empty Threat, of course, but it's fun to speculate some days.

Zero~

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

You have actually managed to become more annoying than a Genghis pilot.

HOW?!

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

RA above and below it’s fucking fantastic that CORSAIR Mercenary Company fell, actually. I was pawing through some old archives and records and I found RPF written about me???

I apologize for my lack of my usual flair, but Christ-the-Buddha it’s not even well-written—

Zero~

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//Sucker\\

I... Pasagaglia for a free Sanjak?

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

TO ANY WHO WOULD LECTURE ME ON THE TOPIC OF A "FREE SANJAK"

SIMPLY BLOW UP A KHAYRADIN BLOCKADE SHIP, OR GIVE ME THE MANNA ADN TOOLS TO DO SO, THEN START TALKING.

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

Harrison Armoury's latest development in chilled anti-dehydration warfare, enjoy a crisp cool can of SPRUNT with your McHarrison's Ration Meal, with a rereshing chill so cold you can cool a Ghengis with it*. Order today! *The HA Sprunt is for human conumption only do not apply to HA machines, HA is not liable for any electronic damage, burns, loss of life, total biome destruction or quantum entanglement caused by the misuse of Sprunt.

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

Still taking review requests.

Shit I'm bored.

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

//Sucker\\

In light of my colleague's clear biases (love you @twoforflinching-ktbedition) I will now be taking requests to review various frames.

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

Fast and loose guide to KTB politics.

Assholes: Feds, Hegiographs, and Neo-Pascs.

Not assholes: Repubs, and Libs.

The assholes want to uphold the noble/ignoble dynamic, with the Hegiographs and Neo-Pascs wanting to walk things back. And the 'Not assholes' wanting to bring the KTB more in line with Union's pillars.

The liberals are about keeping the dynamic, but bringing that dynamic in line with the pillars. While the Republicans want to torch that dynamic for something more in line with centcom just with a ktb coat of paint.

I am sure @thevoicefrompromise can correct me on any inaccuracies.

Radio Free Sanjak reporting live from Embargoland—

Here the freed people of Khyradin's least favorite colony play fresh tunes and undiluted news free of the Sandstream of mainstream Karrakin broadcast space.

TO YOU WHO WOULD BURY US: Know that we have survived your guns, your goons, your grand terraforming project and we will survive the rest. You will build no parks on our graves, you will see no profits from our sweat and the sweat of our siblings and our children. We know you down planetside have been told to not look up, and to this we laugh and drink in the warm sunlight. Let all the Lords and Counts and Barons quake in the wake of our victory and know that when the wheel next turns, it will be you who falls bloody in its treads.

TO YOU WHO WOULD IGNORE US: Do not expect kind words because you were not the hand that struck us. The kind ones deny the boarder your government set, and bring food and aid and weapons so we may protect our homes. But chief among you are the impotent and uncaring, who profit off of our pain, and who hold the leash of the dogs that bite at our heels. We will not spare a thought for you, core worlders, when we fell the petit-tyrants that you rely so much on to play your games, for when your hounds have fallen we will not be so complacent as they in fueling the forges of your little Empire.

TO YOU WHO WOULD SUPPORT US, THE PROPAGANDISTS, AGITATORS, DEALERS OF LITURGICODE AND BLOCKADE RUNNERS: Tonight we play for you. Let the Harlequin and the Firebrand guide your way, for we have done much and much remains left to do. Should you ever find yourself on Free Sanjak you are free to sit at our table and share with us our moonshine and revel in the music of a people made free. While we fight for survival you fight for the promise of a galaxy made better, and together we stand against all the powers that still reign.

TONIGHT WE GREET THE STARS, the great twinkling things kept so long from us, and distribute the truth so all others beaten and broken can do the same.

Signing off, this is Mistral (they/them), from Radio Free Sanjak

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

Hell, I don't know who's worse.

the Feds who want to pretend like nothing is wrong with the status quo, or the Hagiographs who realize the status quo is bad, but want to make it worse.

At least everyone agrees to clown on the Neo-Pasicaglians.

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

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