So you want to know about the Formidine Rift? (Part 3)

lorrad

lorrad
Jaiotu said:
Keep your friends close, your enemies closer and make your rivals part of your household?
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And why not just execute Kahina?
Maybe this truism is operating "Don't kill your enemies, you'll need their support tomorrow."
Keep her on ice just in case she can be used later.
 

Cpt.Bilsn

Cpt.Bilsn
DrewCarnegie said:
It's not going to happen until FDev figure out a way that the first idiot cmdr doesn't just blow all the ships to pieces.
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DrewCarnegie said:
It works well enough for PvE. If I ever decide to go PvP then I'll string cables across my apartment, since watching other cmdrs in SC can get very jerky.

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'grats :)

4 hours left here.
Might set my alarm for 5am and get some pre-work gaming in.
I'm 30kLY out, on my way back from the 'eastern' galactic rim - gonna look at some geysers on my way home.
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Jaiotu said:
Keep your friends close, your enemies closer and make your rivals part of your household?
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There could be several reasons for keeping Ms. Kahina alive, either involved parties think they can still get some information from her or that they might use her in future or they simply lack political power to get her to execution. There might be someone else in a background who might not be able to stop Ms. Kahina's trial directly, especially if there is at least some evidence supporting she is guilty of something (doesn't matter if they are real or out of context, It's the matter of politics, especially if your political rival is involved) but that someone might have been able to throw his weight around so the capital punishment was out of question.

I for myself wonder why is there no reaction or commentary from Emperor (Praise her!). You would think if there is high profile trial of well known noble with princes and admiral involved non the less, that you would see af least some general communiqué from the palace yet there is suspicious silence instead.
 

Siranui

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I read it as a conversation outside the courtroom first too as a literary reprise, but no I believe it is the 'evidence'.
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On re-reading it sober and awake, I believe that is the case.


Eisen said:
Exactly. It is from the founding days of the Children of Raxxla over one year ago. The two persons mentioned are two of our founders, pilots who we certainly know had nothing to do with the emperors dawn and were not part in any assasination attempt on Admiral Patreus. Nor were the Children of Raxxla. And it is absolutely certain that CoR did not leak the video - it was made at a time when CoR was still being founded. And in a place we would never have had access to set up surveillance. Somebody else has secretly recorded the meeting. This is definitely a set up - but by whom? Patreus? Or is Patreus himself only a pawn in the game of someone else? We need to find that out. Why did Raan Corsen go to Alioth? Who would profit most from a war between the Empire and the Federation? The Alliance?
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Well in that case you will be able to fill in all the blanks: What was the favour, what was given for the offer of the head, who were these pilots, why did they not serve head on platter, as agreed?
If you have the full details and audio of the meeting please share it.
 

Jaiotu

Jaiotu
Siranui said:
Well in that case you will be able to fill in all the blanks: What was the favour, what was given for the offer of the head, who were these pilots, why did they not serve head on platter, as agreed?
If you have the full details and audio of the meeting please share it.
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I think that the word favor was used in the sense of "royal favor". As in "I will favor you with my presence". In the CoR short story the "favor" that was offered by Kahina was her leadership of the Children of Raxxla.
 

Siranui

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Jaiotu said:
I think that the word favor was used in the sense of "royal favor". As in "I will favor you with my presence". In the CoR short story the "favor" that was offered by Kahina was her leadership of the Children of Raxxla.
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Keep going...

Why was she promised the head and what was done to bring this about?

What was the rest of the conversation?
 

lorrad

lorrad
Cpt.Bilsn said:
There could be several reasons for keeping Ms. Kahina alive, either involved parties think they can still get some information from her or that they might use her in future or they simply lack political power to get her to execution. There might be someone else in a background who might not be able to stop Ms. Kahina's trial directly, especially if there is at least some evidence supporting she is guilty of something (doesn't matter if they are real or out of context, It's the matter of politics, especially if your political rival is involved) but that someone might have been able to throw his weight around so the capital punishment was out of question.

I for myself wonder why is there no reaction or commentary from Emperor (Praise her!). You would think if there is high profile trial of well known noble with princes and admiral involved non the less, that you would see af least some general communiqué from the palace yet there is suspicious silence instead.
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The Emperor is above politics and to comment on the squabbles of those beneath her would literally be beneath her. It would lower her standing and prestige to engage the factional fighting, she can only lose by doing so because what ever she says one side would not like it and thus lessen her power. Anything other than "The Emperor has greater duties and concerns to occupy her time.", would be a grave error.

The Emperor is not a celebrity, you don't get to stick a mic in front of her and ask who she wants to win X-factor, or what her favorite sexual position is. It's not just common courtesy, if you remember the definition of courtesy is the behavior one adopts to survive in the presence [court] of a ruthless and bloodthirsty tyrant.
 

Macklin_Fox

Macklin_Fox
Astirian said:
Dude, that's awesome! What's the last Cas star before your little EAFOTS cluster, Phi?

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Achamán will spring her out of the clink! ;)
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Astirian - You are correct; that system is Phi Cassiopeaie. It just looks like it is on the R-R from that angle. It's actually coming out of the screen about 570 light years off the R-R line and about 1,620 light years from the EAFOTS cluster.

I tried to link a shot from a different angle, but I get the need moderator approval since I'm new to the forum
 

CookieJarviz

CookieJarviz
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This place is a thing. who would of thought.
 

Cpt.Bilsn

Cpt.Bilsn
lorrad said:
The Emperor is above politics and to comment on the squabbles of those beneath her would literally be beneath her. It would lower her standing and prestige to engage the factional fighting, she can only lose by doing so because what ever she says one side would not like it and thus lessen her power. Anything other than "The Emperor has greater duties and concerns to occupy her time.", would be a grave error.

The Emperor is not a celebrity, you don't get to stick a mic in front of her and ask who she wants to win X-factor, or what her favorite sexual position is. It's not just common courtesy, if you remember the definition of courtesy is the behavior one adopts to survive in the presence [court] of a ruthless and bloodthirsty tyrant.
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Yes I understand that very well. If you would compare Her to anyone, the closest thing we have is The Queen, except Emperor (Praise Her!) is even higher standing, but I still feel it's fair comparison. The Queen also doesn't do press conferences or news interviews, but with bigger issue there is usually some official commentary.

I would expect some communiqué akin to: The palace/Emperor hopes current situation resolves quickly/involved sides will not give to personal emotions/trial will be unbiased and Imperial law upheld...ie something neutral only maybe with a very slight hint of Emperor's standing.... Yet there is nothing.
 

Astirian

Astirian
Macklin_Fox said:
Astirian - That is Phi Cassiopeiae, but it's actually below the R-R line in that picture. Here is a view looking at the x-y axis with the z axis coming out of the screen heading to Sag A*. In this view the magenta system by the EAFOTS cluster is 6 Cass and Phi is below the it. I put a version of the 3-d model on-line. It works like the Galaxy map. You can pan, rotate, and zoom around the systems. Clicking a system and clicking the properties tab will tell you the name of the system. The link is:

http://a360.co/2eDScmx



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Oh my...

It appears 6 Cassiopeiae is an Alpha Cygni variable. Which I have just learned means 'that some portions of the stellar surface are contracting at the same time others parts expand'. If a star had a heartbeat, this would be it.

They are named after Alpha Cygni (Deneb), the 'head' of the Northern Cross. Reminds me of John the Baptist and Medusa...

Let's cut off the head then.

If you draw a line from Sadr (the HEART of Cygni, as opposed to Schedar, Cassiopeiae's HEART), through Deneb; it cuts right through the middle of Cassiopeia, Camelopardalis and Perseus! (I'll upload a pick when I get home)

Mildly related perhaps (via Monsieur Perseus); 'Names similar to Deneb were given to at least seven different stars, most notably Deneb Kaitos, the brightest star in the constellation of Cetus'.

Bonus, 'All these stars are referring to the tail of the animals that their respective constellations represent.' which is just simply terrific given the amount of tail chasing we're doing. It's like they know.

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Bit of a stretch maybe, there are 18 Alpha Cygni variable stars listed on the Wikipedia page. Out of those 18 we have:

CS Cam
CE Cam
κ Cas
ν Cep (Cepheus)
6 Cas
9 Per (Perseus)

I think I'm actually turning into tinfoil.


CMDR. Astirian
Naval Intelligence, Imperial Grey Wolves
 

dynamicbob

Banned
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maping of routes between the rift and jaques is probably something that should be considered along the wya to see if theres anything in between that matches up
 
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