It'd be hilarious if it was Li Yong-Rui behind them; commandeering Pranav Antal's peace summit, brought about by the tensions of the NMLA and Sirius' own meddling with the thargoids in the Coalsack Nebula, to gather all the power players into a nice trap surrounded by the largest private navy money can buy.
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It'd be hilarious if it was Li Yong-Rui behind them; commandeering Pranav Antal's peace summit, brought about by the tensions of the NMLA and Sirius' own meddling with the thargoids in the Coalsack Nebula, to gather all the power players into a nice trap surrounded by the largest private navy money can buy.
Having made it out there myself now, I am 98% sure this is a new base design, and let's say 80% sure it is an Odyssey asset. Lots of little details that make me think it was designed with on-foot action in mind, in a way that many of the existing base designs do not.
It would be great if we can go back to this site when Odyssey drops and be able to explore the interior.
Well, this had all of the hallmarks of a droll FDEV story: Torture. Black sites. And the hero Marlinists save the day!
As usual, the Empire continues to be portrayed as a two-dimensional, moustache-twirling, and irredeemably evil force in the galaxy by unimaginative FDEV writers.
Hint: The Empire is more nuanced than this, please read the whole Salome storyline.
As usual, the Empire continues to be portrayed as a two-dimensional, moustache-twirling, and irredeemably evil force in the galaxy by unimaginative FDEV writers.
Hint: The Empire is more nuanced than this, please read the whole Salome storyline.
The whole game is about walking the line on morality. Everything has good and bad sides, this time you saw the Empire at its worst, along with terrorists being held being just as nasty.
The 'heroes' in the story torture the guy out of spite, rather than escaping when they could. Those terrorists also blew up thousands of civillians - not exactly pristine is it for either side.
Very High! Did you manage to log on before it was solved?What'll be the chances this entire puzzle will be solved before I even manage to log on later today?
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I think certain people in the Federation and Alliance might have the opposite problem.
Their intelligence forces interrogated Marlinists (who have, from the point of view of the Alliance or Federation, a perfectly reasonable belief in democracy) and handed - without a trial - those they suspected of being NMLA over to the Empire. Where they've now been tortured and mostly killed, also without a trial. And sure, the Empire's records show that they all confessed to being NMLA (and the Theta group probably even were), but at least the more idealist members of the Congress and Assembly should still see a problem with that.
Kaine perhaps isn't ideally positioned to challenge Mahon on that, since she didn't want to take the refugees in the first place, but can probably do something with it ... and Winters might be able to make something of it against Hudson, at least for rousing her own side.
I guess it's still somewhat necessary in case someone goes out without a DSS fitted - paying attention to the FSS would give you the planet, but not the coordinates.
If they were designed that way (which the in-game components of the Adamastor puzzle were), it would have been released at 13:00, solved at 13:05, and everyone would be complaining that they hadn't even read the question before people were talking about the answer everywhere.
Now, sure, that wouldn't stop a solo CMDR not reading any forums, etc. until they'd solved it for themselves ... maybe some people did the Adamastor one that way, but we won't know since they don't read the forums.
Yep. If an Imperial-aligned commander is reading Galnet and seeing the Empire only portrayed as bad, and the other superpowers and powers only portrayed as good, that's probably a sign that they've actually picked the wrong alignment for themselves, because they aren't able to justify their own side's moustache and criticise the other sides'.
The Federation has been portrayed as just as prone to political assassinations as the Empire, the Alliance is out helping Sirius Corp antagonise the Thargoids with extinction-level technology, Utopia runs plenty of sites like Serene Harbour pretty openly, the Federation had a bunch of researchers arrested simply for suggesting that the Far God Cult might not be actually a Thargoid front, everyone's up to their eyeballs in Aegis/INRA, etc. etc.
I'm sure there's a positive story about someone in a major power somewhere, but it probably won't make the news.
As a pro-Imperial, I wouldn't say they've been portrayed as bad in the sense of "On the negative (personal, game-focused) moral compass", but rather bad in the sense of clumsy, naive and oafish. This story arc, showing the IISS maintained "black" interrogation prisons and such, and several other pieces of lore are much closer to the savvy manouvering I'd expect from them... thus my previous comment of feeling like the Empire was actually portrayed as the victim, rather than the villain. Does it put their dirty laundry in the spotlight more? Absolutely, but the Federation and Alliance have just as much which is yet to see the light of day.
I am at the location, nothing here are these coordinates reversed? That used to happen on garnet logs
Whilst a bit pants as far as an activity goes (random search, no skill, no reward), it was still far better to do this sort of thing through Galnet, rather than just tell us the narrative on Galnet.
At least the players were involved in some capacity, even if it was solved within 3 hours, before some people could even try.
A step in right direction I think, albeit a very very small step...
At least the players were involved in some capacity, even if it was solved within 3 hours, before some people could even try.
A step in right direction I think, albeit a very very small step...
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I didn't
in fact, I was thinking of logging on with my alt account which is in the bubble (main one with FC is in Colonia) but couldn't even be bothered to do that. It's all laid out in the forum and apparently some codex entries are bugged so didn't see the point - while it's nice to see some sort of narrative being added it doesn't really tickle me all that much ... ultimately some copy/paste assets placed somewhere with a few paragraphs of flavour text that I could probably write up myself if I wanted to...This sounds awfully negative now I admit - it's certainly better than nothing but as someone else posted last night, it does feel like pre-3.3 content being reheated. I guess it's better than nothing at all and I'm glad at least some of the player base are having/had their brief fun with it.
I really wish this was an outcome of a scanning CG though-
CG asks for scans to piece together data fragments relating to X
Each tier reveals another piece
Independent of the CG people can go look for X
Or, you have this for two competitive CGs, with two messages that are embarrassing for rival powers maybe.
CG asks for scans to piece together data fragments relating to X
Each tier reveals another piece
Independent of the CG people can go look for X
Or, you have this for two competitive CGs, with two messages that are embarrassing for rival powers maybe.
Can’t find are the locations reversed?
I think this current event leads to a few possible conclusions for NMLA:
1) The Marlinist movement has spread wider than initially expected and the ideology has already penetrated and compromised Imperial agencies as far as the Intelligence community. That's why "their own IISS soldiers" attacked the facility.
2) The entire NMLA is just a cover/black op for a faction within the IISS with an unknown goal. Maybe they seek to overthrow the Duvals in a coup, maybe they have even more ambitious goals
3) As someone above already suggested, NMLA (and some of the other happenings in Elite at the moment) could be the doing of an (as of yet) unkown force at work within human politics. The "NWO style"/X-Files conspiracy stuff. Maybe Thargoid followers/Thargod/Fargod stuff that seek to cause havoc in human space as a 5th column to prepare mankind for a proper Thargoid invasion
1) The Marlinist movement has spread wider than initially expected and the ideology has already penetrated and compromised Imperial agencies as far as the Intelligence community. That's why "their own IISS soldiers" attacked the facility.
2) The entire NMLA is just a cover/black op for a faction within the IISS with an unknown goal. Maybe they seek to overthrow the Duvals in a coup, maybe they have even more ambitious goals
3) As someone above already suggested, NMLA (and some of the other happenings in Elite at the moment) could be the doing of an (as of yet) unkown force at work within human politics. The "NWO style"/X-Files conspiracy stuff. Maybe Thargoid followers/Thargod/Fargod stuff that seek to cause havoc in human space as a 5th column to prepare mankind for a proper Thargoid invasion
I had some problems finding it myself. Didn't show up on my nav panel after using the DSS. I tried logging out to the menu and back, still nothing.
But when I started flying around above the moon in supercruise, I spotted an "Unknown" signal source on the surface, that was it.