interfere... giggles.
THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)
- Thread starter Cmdr Zach
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interfere... giggles.
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Q = A letter of the Alphabet
Que = An abbreviation of "Quebec"
Cue = When an actor is supposed to say his or her lines
Queue = A waiting line or sequence
Sorry ... I should be used to seeing all of these used in place of "queue" by now
Que = Spanish for what does that mean?
(as in Fawlty Towers)
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But what is the Spanish for "Que = Spanish for what does that mean?"?
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What is the meat shield made of and how do I get one to make my ship impervious to projectile weapons?
I plan to KOS any CoR that interdicts me. Choosing to want her to live long enough to get her messaage out does not mean I cboosse to side with CoR.
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But you can kill CoR any day. Man it is going to suck if we end up having to wait months for galnet etc. to eventually tell us what we could have learned on the 29th.
"Que = Espanol por Que?"?
At bit of a loose end here waiting for the servers to come back. Was in the middle of some system scanning when I got the warning. Walked the dog, had a cuppa. Need to do the FRift bases & get back to Base Camp. I'll never get back for Saturday at this rate.
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Rebuy does not concern me in the slightest, but siding with Salome is siding with CoR and wanting her to live long enough to make the reveal is not the same as making enemies in trying to defend her.
For that I need a reason I believe in, and for all I know currently her reveal will have about as much importance to me as what she had for breakfast on the 29th.
Blind faith is something I don't do and if the reveal was "oh look, the imps have a secret base" or "oh look, Sirius have been keeping secrets to make profit" I would likely say thanks for the info, but I'm not shocked and that's why I'm independent.
Inra fighting a secret war to protect humanity? I'd probably sign up to help.
A shadow government running the bubble to keep us controlled for our true alien overlords, I'd deploy hardpoints to defend her, fight them and be on a rebuy.
For the hundreds of other theories I would react as appropriate.
But as I don't know, I can't judge, and I won't be fighting for or against whether she should have had toast, fruit or a full English until I do.
Well actually I'd always support the full English if I'm totally honest, but don't know if that was an option.
That was quite quick 180° turn.
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"Hey you EDF drop that thing with Corsen, or you wouldn't be allowed into the right instance of the event."
"....Mhmhm...okay"
I have no wish to side with CoR or Salome, but equally I have no wish for Salome to die.
However, getting into a firefight for the sake of allowing Salome to make public whatever information she holds is not something I have any motivation to do - especially given Salome's previous failure to handover any data regarding the Rift mystery.
Actually, given that the ONLY time she's told people anything concrete was when she thought she was about to die, maybe having someone hold a gun to her head IS the best way to discover what she knows.
That made me chuckle and wouldn't blame you for it. Interdiction is a violent action to force you to do what they want.
I will point out their error to them politely first though as I can understand the tactic of trying to deny their enemies the area, but that's no excuse to hit neutrals.
Kind of get the feeling my choice may end up being "none of the above" if CoR and their allies act as I expect, but will give them a chance to prove me wrong.
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And again I can't rep you.
Probably the thought behind this is that she would have been assassinated by -unknown faction to be revealed- if she just told everyone about the rift mystery. She had to trust people find out themselves.
One of the big difficulties with this event is going to be establishing who is on who's side. There will be chaos, confusion and carnage. I'm expecting it to be total bananas, like an ED Bugsy Malone with FSD Interdictors and Plasma Accelerators (and I hope it is just as much fun!!). How would you know whether the person interdicting you is a member of CoR, SDC, The Code, PalCon or just another interested lone wolf pilot? How will they know that you are neutral? I would suggest that best way of being neutral and avoiding trouble, whilst still being there to witness events, would be to set up a 800+m/s iEagle and to not carry either an FSD interdictor or any weapons. Even then, keeping up with the protagonists' progress would be a challenge, assuming they make it out of 46 Eridani alive in the first place!
Not carrying an interdictor and not being in wing would be a good indication of 'observer' status I would think.
I see this as possibly being like the Pamplona bull run. There will be those throwing themselves into it, goading the bulls, but that doesn't mean the bulls won't run down people standing on the sidelines.
Edit - fast ship advised, as is experience/practice at setting a high wake target in very short order, so you can jump elsewhere with no mass lock. Boost, flight assist off, charge, FA on, jump.
I see this as possibly being like the Pamplona bull run. There will be those throwing themselves into it, goading the bulls, but that doesn't mean the bulls won't run down people standing on the sidelines.
Edit - fast ship advised, as is experience/practice at setting a high wake target in very short order, so you can jump elsewhere with no mass lock. Boost, flight assist off, charge, FA on, jump.
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And this is where the problem is, from my perspective:
In order to just observe, let alone be involved, I need to be planning ahead, building a ship, engineering it and whatever else might be necessary.
That, to me, makes the event much less of a community-wide event and more something for a particular sub-group of players.
Caveat:
There is no implied criticism of FDev or Drew here (that'll come on the Saltieth of April) since I have absolutely no idea how they could do things differently and still have it form the climax (steady there @Matzov) of Premonition.
"Que = Espanol por Que?"?
At bit of a loose end here waiting for the servers to come back. Was in the middle of some system scanning when I got the warning. Walked the dog, had a cuppa. Need to do the FRift bases & get back to Base Camp. I'll never get back for Saturday at this rate.
Well, I got it. It put me in mind of an episode of Shooting Stars. It doesn't work as well when written, but the question was:
"What is the SI unit of measurement of electrical power?"
Watt.
"What is the SI unit of measurement of electrical power?"
Watt.
"I said what is the SI unit of measurement of electrical power?"
Watt is the unit of electrical power.
"Yeah, that's what I asked ".
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That's what I think is really good about it, as a contrasting view. It will take thought. However, if you 'die' what do you really lose? That's why I am trying to encourage people to just give it a go, even if you are not in that 'subset'.
Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!
You're going for that 'Instance saturation' thing.