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((It was meant to be anonymous, but it sent it before I was finished))

ooc: gotcha! if you send it in again anon I can delete the old one and publish that instead

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But you'll gladly make a profit off of it. You'll hold your nose just long enough to pocket the manna, just like union will hold its nose long enough

...do you think that those other groups don't make money killing people? Do you think that DoJ/HR liberator teams are all perfect unpaid humanitarian idealists? Are the manna flows that allow Albatross to run those massive monastery-ships wholly unrelated to their killing of pirates and other undesirables?

No dear, I don't actually torture people, and so there is no nose-holding to be done here. My condemnation of graywash and napalm is not hypocritical because I use neither. Union, however, does seem to be happy enough to use the incendiaries supplied from Harrison Armory, so if you want to criticize someone for this, I would direct you there.

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You kill people for a living Nera. So excuse me if I find your arguments a little shallow. Dead is dead. So stop moralizing about the method, and try to stop the act

Plenty of people kill people for a living. Do you send these same asks to your dear DoJ/HR liberator teams, or to your local Albatross? That doesn't mean that I endorse killing and torture.

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Are we pretending to have moral squabbles with how an enemy dies? Oh I suppose anything will do to prop up your ego. Even if it is being a more humane killer.

Would you endorse torture, anon? I would think any feeling person would have "moral sqabbles" about methods of killing, this is why most civilized peoples condemn the use of things like napalm. I don't think this is a matter of ego, simply a matter of ethics.

If you disagree with this, I suggest finding a posting with Harrison Armory. They adore your sort of uncaring militarism, and I think you might do quite well in their legions.

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I had considered putting together a series of who wore it better style posts for Albatross and Karrakin frame ornaments, given the comparisons people love to draw to both of our "knightly" aesthetics, but I forgot that Albatross has a brand endorsement deal with the manufacturer best known for wholesale piracy implements.

Not that there aren't Karrakins buying IPS-N, it's just that I think it would be unfair to represent us with pirates and terrapunks.

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Interesting. I had assumed that DoJ/HR cybersecurity was more sophisticated than whatever this is.

HOLIDAYS OF SANJAK

"Fuck Khayradin" Year (all year round, self explanatory)

Pirate Appreciation Day (annual)

Greywash hole day (Once a week, people throw stuff into the vat of semi-contained greywash to see what survives)

Nonsexual Nude Mud Wrestling day (annual)

Day of Liberation (annual)

Tybalt Ludra Death Day (annual, funny)

Sexual Nude Mud Wrestling day (annual)

Carlotta Ludra Death Day (annual, really funny)

Scrapper's Holiday (End of Each Month)

Free Cigarettes Day (annual)

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Does your boss know you're threatening to dunk human beings in graywash?

HOLIDAYS OF SANJAK

"Fuck Khayradin" Year (all year round, self explanatory)

Pirate Appreciation Day (annual)

Greywash hole day (Once a week, people throw stuff into the vat of semi-contained greywash to see what survives)

Nonsexual Nude Mud Wrestling day (annual)

Day of Liberation (annual)

Tybalt Ludra Death Day (annual, funny)

Sexual Nude Mud Wrestling day (annual)

Carlotta Ludra Death Day (annual, really funny)

Scrapper's Holiday (End of Each Month)

Free Cigarettes Day (annual)

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rasfavoritekitty: i should make smth like. liturgicode that makes liking my posts deadly

rasfavoritekitty: thatd be fucked. i should do that. for fun :3:3:3

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ooc: they're all RKF*! the original post talks a bit about this, but the Taraxacum is a specialized Lancaster alt that is built for the colonization of arboreal worlds on the Dawnline (as well as as a surveillance and mobility platform), with specific callouts to Crossland as the point of origin.

ooc: the hecatoncheires, on the other hand?

haha yikes

*yeah the hecaton officially doesn't exist

It has come to my attention some people don't think the Taraxacum is real. It is! Shadow of the Wolf is an upcoming (official, Massif Press) book being worked on by Katherine Stark of Legionnaire fame. You can find the playtest materials on the pilot.net Discord.

It contains three new alt frames:

The IPSN Taraxacum: a Lancaster alt based around scan/lock on. Also it can fly and can airlift friendlies, ignoring the usual carry restrictions for flying. You're the eye in the sky. If you ever wanted to be the command and control node and/or the ominous looming mothership, this is your frame.

The HORUS Hecatoncheires: a size 1/2 Balor alt that uses mobile greywash swarms that provide cover for allies and burn enemies. Like the Balor, the Hecatoncheires is kind of a formless greywash guy but instead of regeneration etc it's more about turning into the smoke monster from Lost. Really likes being in cover, which its core system drones can provide. Less of a tank than the Balor, more of an assassin.

The HA Tagetes: a Sherman alt frame that turns any ranged weapon into a rifle. You wanna crack shot with Gandiva Missiles? A Siege Cannon? Now you can, bud. Also gets a fancier version of Stabilize. An artillery mech, it's almost more like an HA take on the Death's Head rather than the more balanced frontline Sherman – this is your dedicated infantry marksman mech. And yes, I know what you're thinking, you can Crack Shot with the Tachyon Lance. Did I mention all its ranged weapons gain Overkill? That between Crack Shot and Nuke Cav – on a mech with decent heat management tools – you can pretty reliably throw out 4D6 energy + 8 heat with Overkill per shot?

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You're just mad I look better than you doing it ;)

[An image of Nera in what appears to be a gym of some kind. She is wearing a heavy hardsuit, unlike the silver-plated mobility hardsuit she normally wears in press photos, and wielding a practice blade. Some may recognize the pose she's in as an intermediate Jäger Kunst form.]

Working on something that may be of interest to those of you still following my Pankrati exploits. Nothing official yet, but watch this space.

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@sheolsparkofficial For all your exposure to the House of Smoke, I am fascinated by the implication that martial arts training in a plain hardsuit constitutes anything resembling "sparri cosplay."

You've seen the House Flyte delegations before.

[An image of Nera in what appears to be a gym of some kind. She is wearing a heavy hardsuit, unlike the silver-plated mobility hardsuit she normally wears in press photos, and wielding a practice blade. Some may recognize the pose she's in as an intermediate Jäger Kunst form.]

Working on something that may be of interest to those of you still following my Pankrati exploits. Nothing official yet, but watch this space.

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You would think you'd have this one figured out by now.

Starting to suspect that students aren't actually taking all of that high-explosive ordinance out of the mech stables for actual field testing...

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[An image of Nera in what appears to be a gym of some kind. She is wearing a heavy hardsuit, unlike the silver-plated mobility hardsuit she normally wears in press photos, and wielding a practice blade. Some may recognize the pose she's in as an intermediate Jäger Kunst form.]

Working on something that may be of interest to those of you still following my Pankrati exploits. Nothing official yet, but watch this space.

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Fascinated by the implication that the House of Stone approach I described as "blunt force trauma" is what I think should have happened. No, let the Ungratefuls have the moon, and let them see what compromises they must make to run it when they no longer have the blockade to use to beg for aid. They've closed the mines? Fine, I'm sure they can somehow turn their resort world into a living when their old clientele were made hostages. See what traders in Khayradi orbit would even consider them worth visiting, actually. They're no longer part of Karrakin space, of course, which means they must negotiate member status with Union, and we've seen their leaders' historical skill with negotiation. No, I take issue with the idea that Union approached the conflict with the intention for compromise, already intervening, and then decided the solution was to put the conflict in stasis.

It's a poor attempt at impartiality hampered by the fact that they did it alongside negotiating the end of the First Interest War. I'd venture to guess they only gave so much to Stone because their other priority at the time was finding a way to weasel out of the fact that they gave Karrakis the Dawnline Shore so they could acknowledge Harrison Armory's claims on that territory. (Especially bad form in my opinion given the war was started when the Baronic Navy intercepted a fleet that we later learned was en route to depose the new government on Terra. We save ThirdComm the civil war and that was the thanks we got.)

Besides, we all know they've never been impartial anyway, don't we? I hear rumors of Union teams slipping the blockade they help enforce. Slander, I'm sure. You wouldn't break your own rules like that, would you?

Ignoring the fact each member in centcomm is allowed to choose their representative in the committee without any external pressures to it, and has a say on the existence of departments, means they are atleast held accountable, as opposed to your prime baron. The ignoble house is constantly under the pressure of the noble class, whether thorough funding for campaigning, or the threat of physically harm by less morally upstanding members of the noble class. This influences how any given member is going to vote in a multitude of ways, though generally in favor of whatever the noble class of where they represent wants.

...you know the Prime Baron is a member of CentComm, right? If she's uniquely undemocratic then I have bad news about CentComm appointments, especially if we're also considering corpo-state appointments.

Also, do riches not exist outside of the Concern? I know that people seem to assume I have some unfathomable amount of money, but I would assume that campaign funds are a problem wherever democracy and manna coexist.

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Well, you see, Union is at war (with the Aun, not Karrakins, as some might assume) and our area of expertise involves Firmament tech. I'm not speaking for the other Banner Companies, but mine works there.

Second, I have been fairly outspoken about a lot of these things when relevant but: the House of Stone is a decrepit institution more interested in inflating the egos of its heirs than actually attempting governance, its tendency to spit in the face of Union unprovoked via behavior like how they handled Ludra is frankly tempting fate. The blockade is a waste of everyone's time but the logical outcome of Union attempting a compromise between a Major House that only knows blunt force trauma as a response to its problems and the Ungratefuls. The House of Water doesn't need my support, they're doing fine, but I've already shown it as a representative in the House Games. As for the Ignoble House, I'm no political theorist, I don't know how to resolve that issue, and I'd be interested to find someone who actually can.

I can do this and also say that calling in Union to fix our government because we clearly don't know how to run it also smacks of SecComm, and that Union can sometimes be a bit of a bully.

Ignoring the fact each member in centcomm is allowed to choose their representative in the committee without any external pressures to it, and has a say on the existence of departments, means they are atleast held accountable, as opposed to your prime baron. The ignoble house is constantly under the pressure of the noble class, whether thorough funding for campaigning, or the threat of physically harm by less morally upstanding members of the noble class. This influences how any given member is going to vote in a multitude of ways, though generally in favor of whatever the noble class of where they represent wants.

...you know the Prime Baron is a member of CentComm, right? If she's uniquely undemocratic then I have bad news about CentComm appointments, especially if we're also considering corpo-state appointments.

Also, do riches not exist outside of the Concern? I know that people seem to assume I have some unfathomable amount of money, but I would assume that campaign funds are a problem wherever democracy and manna coexist.

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I'm sure they're glad someone is carrying that interventionist torch. I had thought it waning based on my interactions on Ganymede, but clearly not all of you have forgotten the old ways.

Also, hard to be a boot when most of the time I've spent since I was given my status is work for a Banner Company that contracts out most of its time for Union Navy. Makes it hard to step on any throats not designated by our mutual boss, actually.

Ignoring the fact each member in centcomm is allowed to choose their representative in the committee without any external pressures to it, and has a say on the existence of departments, means they are atleast held accountable, as opposed to your prime baron. The ignoble house is constantly under the pressure of the noble class, whether thorough funding for campaigning, or the threat of physically harm by less morally upstanding members of the noble class. This influences how any given member is going to vote in a multitude of ways, though generally in favor of whatever the noble class of where they represent wants.

...you know the Prime Baron is a member of CentComm, right? If she's uniquely undemocratic then I have bad news about CentComm appointments, especially if we're also considering corpo-state appointments.

Also, do riches not exist outside of the Concern? I know that people seem to assume I have some unfathomable amount of money, but I would assume that campaign funds are a problem wherever democracy and manna coexist.