Salome's Requiem..........................really?

[TomP]

Did someone mention Salami? Ooh, I like Salami. Yum yum.

 

[kofeyh]

In a shock twist, a lass who flashed her eyelashes (after being responsible for a lot of death) is suddenly a damsel in distress, and is essentially taken out by the elite version of Brutas in a glorious example of art imitating life imitating art imitating life.

After that little example of a scenario completely devoid of critical thinking, people are off to 'punish' some random faction. Because of some (apparently attractive) malcontent who had delusions of grandeur and couldn't send a message ahead, yet somehow was able to broadcast over Galnet. To which follows a large amount of waffle about some sort of corruption that is essentially irrelevant to pretty much anything.

Meanwhile, pitchforks and demands for justice and a good old fashioned butt-kicking in the name of a dead chick, whilst an old adversary, at an entirely unknown strength has returned for entirely unknown reasons to do presumably entirely unknown things (apart from the massive wake of destruction left behind as a consequence of the Feds being, as usual, very very stupid).

Is like most of the player base just that catastrophically devoid of critical thinking and risk assessment?

Actually, don't answer that. I think I've just realised it's rhetorical.

 

[Kuroshio]

[...] Meanwhile, pitchforks and demands for justice and a good old fashioned butt-kicking in the name of a dead chick, whilst an old adversary, at an entirely unknown strength has returned for entirely unknown reasons to do presumably entirely unknown things (apart from the massive wake of destruction left behind as a consequence of the Feds being, as usual, very very stupid).

Is like most of the player base just that catastrophically devoid of critical thinking and risk assessment?

While that might be true from a character perspective, and their strength remains unknown, Premonition tells us players both what the Thargoids are doing and why they are doing it. Combined with the fact that we know that we can shape the coming encounters, risk assessments based on that knowledge are not as simple as they may seem.

Salomé's Requiem is, let's be honest, nothing more than a summary of parts of the book, a book that is officially sanctioned lore. It might be worth considering that characters listen to what Salomé had to say because some their players now know that what she says is true, not because she was female or attractive or young or Imperial or human. And that she - as a narrative device - provides ideas on how to turn player into character knowledge.

 

[SpacialSnowflake]

So Salome want's us to essentially become Terrorists to ruin the economy and plans of the people who have been preparing for a war with Thargoids for who knows how long just as they begin to return. She kind of looks like a traitor to humanity to me.

 

[CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost]

So Salome want's us to essentially become Terrorists to ruin the economy and plans of the people who have been preparing for a war with Thargoids for who knows how long just as they begin to return. She kind of looks like a traitor to humanity to me.

I think she was just really obsessed about "truth" and never considered the consequences of her actions.
Even in her last speech she want us to find out the "truth" without a single thought about what would be the result of that.

But, yes for an outside observer she looks like a traitor to humanity.

 

[Diostar50]

For a character that a lot of people never cared about, she sure gets a lot of posts. There's a few in here who hate her, but are obsessed with her and always post about Salome. Maybe they dont like to admit that the salome character has done more for lore than all their PP characters combined? What the author set out to do was to get people talking about her, her story, his book, elite lore etc. Everyone in here has fallen for it. Well done drew

Hmm. I don't understand why she couldn't just broadcast the message from a safe place...
We can travel across the galaxy, but she can't send a message?

So in your version -
Chapter 31, Salome transmits a message from col70 waning humanity of conspiracy/thargoids/exodus.
The end

Great chapter.

Read the book, it explains why she never transmitted from there, but just from storytelling viewpoint does it really need explaining to you why end game played out way it did? It was a story that the author wanted exciting ending to, with chase to core world, and many battles. Exactly what happened.

While that might be true from a character perspective, and their strength remains unknown, Premonition tells us players both what the Thargoids are doing and why they are doing it. Combined with the fact that we know that we can shape the coming encounters, risk assessments based on that knowledge are not as simple as they may seem.

Salomé's Requiem is, let's be honest, nothing more than a summary of parts of the book, a book that is officially sanctioned lore. It might be worth considering that characters listen to what Salomé had to say because some their players now know that what she says is true, not because she was female or attractive or young or Imperial or human. And that she - as a narrative device - provides ideas on how to turn player into character knowledge.

+1
Finally someone who understood it. Faith restored