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2012-09-06, 09:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Well, it looks like Tagii was the only thing preventing Third Orleans on Oisrii (sp.) after all. So does that mean that Tagon is going to be up to his ears in zombies in a few minutes?
I thought they needed to be beheaded -- but maybe that isn't the case. Maybe the beheading just triggered the problem early.
Edit: by the way, does anyone else get the impression that Howard Tayler really, really, really enjoys zombie movies?Last edited by Bulldog Psion; 2012-09-06 at 09:14 AM.
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So the song runs on, with shift and change,
Through the years that have no name,
And the late notes soar to a higher range,
But the theme is still the same.
Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
Blend in with the old, old rhyme
That was traced in the score of the strata marks
While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark
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2012-09-06, 09:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Assuming Para is telling the truth, this somewhat confirms the idea of there being multiple UNS factions at play. Para is working for UNS Internal Affairs Intelligence Corps. Which dosn't make sense as the group to go after GAVcorps.
Mind you, it also dosn't make sense as the group to put a deep cover agent inside a mercenary company unless that company is expected to be routinely used by the UNS.
So we have Emm's Group, which is trying to take over Osiri, which para is trying to counter, presumably at the behest of the IAIC.
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2012-09-06, 12:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-06, 12:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-06, 03:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Yeah, gee, it's not like at the time they were in the exclusive employ of them as Independent Contractors. Or that their first assignment as such was intended as a covert attempt to install a "Pro Annexation" faction as the controlling group on Credomar.
Oh wait...Last edited by ChowGuy; 2012-09-06 at 03:24 PM.
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2012-09-06, 03:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Here's the problem.
First of all, Para is a brilliant Roboticist who ALSO has espionage training.
Let's give them the benefit of the doubt and say that she is older than she looks, moving a brain into a younger body is within the realm of Schlockverse tech. Why they would choose so young a body is a little strange, seeing as it might attract attention, but it's an explanation.
Either way, the UNSIA can't have that many brilliant roboticist spies in their employ, yet they felt it was important to assign one to the Toughs. This indicates they are something of a high priority. If that's her natural body, it's even stranger, since it means they have a prodigy roboticist spy who should be in a lab somewhere building milspec AI's, rather than accidentally creating benevolent monarchs.
Secondly, the issue with Credomar was the Toughs not receiving clear instructions. It would have been easy for the UNS to tell the Toughs to deliver the food to somebody of their choice. Even if the person in question was not a legitimate authority, The Toughs are mercenaries, and part of the problem was that there WAS no legitimate authority on Credomar.
So UNSIA was willing to send their roboticist spy on a mission considered unimportant enough that they couldn't be bothered to give them clear orders.
After that mission, there was no guarantee that the Toughs would be doing anything UNS related for quite some time. They could have run off to hunt space pirates, or picked up a security contract from Petey. They have since run into two operations that fall under UNSIA's purvew: Barsoom Command and the mess on Haven Hive. Para wasn't there for the first one, and it was by pure chance that they got involved with the second. Same with Osiri.
They COULD have assigned Para to a battleplate, where she could keep a close eye on a troublesome Admiral. Instead they pick a mercenary company that just so happens to keep running into shady UNS operations.
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2012-09-06, 03:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
The Tough's seem to end up to their necks in UNS dirty laundry far more often then chance would make plausible. We the readers know that its because the Malevolent God of the Shlockiverse considers them to be his favorite pawns. But to an in-universe intelligence analyst that would sound absurd and they'd assume that the Tough's must have some deep connection to the otherwise super paranoid shady parts of the UNS to interact with it as often as they do and get out alive repeatedly. Para's job was to find that connection and use it to get intel on a faction that was otherwise nigh impenetrable.
Last edited by Spamotron; 2012-09-06 at 03:52 PM.
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2012-09-06, 05:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
No, the problem is you've been watching too many James Bond movies. In the real world, you don't send highly trained agents in the field, you recruit "assets" who are either already in place, or can be placed where you need them but can't easily be traced back to you, then give them only as much information as they "need to know." It's entirely reasonable for a talented but rebellious young unknown to think she would have more "fun" working as a spy then chaffing under the UNS command structure.
So UNSIA was willing to send their roboticist spy on a mission considered unimportant enough that they couldn't be bothered to give them clear orders.
After that mission, there was no guarantee that the Toughs would be doing anything UNS related for quite some time.
or picked up a security contract from Petey.ChowGuy - The LaChoy Dragon - Servant of the Tiger and disciple of the Wanderer
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2012-09-06, 09:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-06, 10:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Kevyn, this is the point where you get on the PA system and inform all the Gavs of the security risk, including the fact that it's being propagated through the entertainment feed. Don't waste time on snappy one-liners and get your clients to help with the security.
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2012-09-06, 11:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-06, 11:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Wait a second... if the killswitch for Para is in her tooth, why not, y'know, REMOVE THE TOOTH? She's already missing one, a second wouldn't be missed that much.
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2012-09-07, 12:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-07, 06:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
If you tell them that their identities are being overwritten by the TV, with Binnie as incontrovertible proof, I would be very surprised if they decided that doesn't apply to them. Only the Gavs who have already died since Project Redhack came online are now gav/corporal whats-his-face hybrids, which right now is Binnie and the Gavzombies in the Medical Wing. No one else has died, which means everyone else is an unadulterated Gav. (well, internally adulterated Gav. The point is no one else has meddled with their personality yet). Unless they intentionally coded stupidity into themselves as an integral part of their personality, I'm not seeing much of a reason for resistance in this matter.
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2012-09-07, 10:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-07, 11:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Well, the first thing is to prevent it from going off while you're studying it and determining whether it can be removed, and if so, how best to remove it.
Sort of like you put the emergency brake on a car and wedges under the wheels when you go to remove a blown tire, rather than just hammering at the bolts immediately while the car is sitting on a slope in neutral.Spoiler
So the song runs on, with shift and change,
Through the years that have no name,
And the late notes soar to a higher range,
But the theme is still the same.
Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
Blend in with the old, old rhyme
That was traced in the score of the strata marks
While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark
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2012-09-07, 11:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Binnie isn't proof, though. Binnie is proof, at best, that if you die that happens. The TV stuff is unknown to anyone except those two medical people. Who died. Opps.
Also, if nothing else, the Gav's have shown quite a contrary streak.He fears his fate too much, and his reward is small, who will not put it to the touch, to win or lose it all.
-James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose
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2012-09-07, 12:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
"Attention all GavCorps employees! We have discovered a major breach in station security. Should you die, the RED nannies that revive you will replace you with a UNS soldier with lethal nanite-borne weaponry and durable armor-plating. [Clip of Binnie breaking out of quarantine and going on a rampage plays] We believe that it is an external signal that is inducing these changes into the stored RED templates. Please, switch off all items and appliances that receive a signal from off-planet. This includes TVs, Hypernet-based cell phones, etc. A team of Tagon's Toughs will be by momentarily to confirm the successful shutdown of any such devices. Thank you for your cooperation."
Above should be the briefing that Kevyn (or the Security chief whose name escapes me) tells everyone. And Kevyn realizes that the entertainment feed is the only possible vector, otherwise he wouldn't tell Ebby to "fry [the TVs] like bad hashbrowns." And if the Gavs refuse to listen, That is the point where you cut and run.
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2012-09-07, 12:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
"This only happens if we die? So as long as we avoid doing that there should be no problem with us watching T.V."
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2012-09-07, 02:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-07, 02:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Just don't point those at any vital equipment, like life support infrastructure.
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2012-09-07, 03:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Mad Science" means never stopping to ask "What's the worst thing that could happen?"
- Maxim 14 of the Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries. From Schlock Mercenary by Howard Tayler.
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2012-09-07, 03:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-07, 04:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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In a war it doesn't matter who's right, only who's left.
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2012-09-07, 06:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
It does if it's a normally-on E-stop switch. A lot of systems are designed to cut out if the controls are destroyed.
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2012-09-07, 06:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-07, 07:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by ChowGuy; 2012-09-07 at 07:13 PM.
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2012-09-08, 02:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
What are the odds she doesn't have a poison tooth at all? Doesn't look like something the UNS would do...
Last edited by teratorn; 2012-09-08 at 02:33 AM.
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2012-09-08, 10:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
They're based in part on real world popcultural views of real world and fictional contemporary or recent past governments.
That would easily give enough source material for poison teeth to be a potential thing. Granted, it seems rather uncomplicated compared to their usual stuff.
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2012-09-08, 01:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
they'd probably use nannies for other agents, but we're talking about a savant-level roboticist here, they might be forced to use a lower-tech method she can't subvert by herself.
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