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I’m bored. Launch the IPBM’s and end the game. (Not serious)
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VanSandman posted:I’m bored. Launch the IPBM’s and end the game.  So unfortunately I have some news, I have started a new job. IRL interferes as always. This may not seem immediately terrible but unfortunately about 60+% of the War of the Worlds was written and/or played out at "work." Sadly this is no longer possible so updates are going to slow down to 1-2 per week. I'm still around so anything addressed to me in discord or the thread will be answered as promptly as possible. Finally I want to say thank you to everyone who has participated in my little LP adventure thing. It's been an absolute delight having you all onboard and I remain committed to seeing it through to the end [which is an actual thing you may eventually reach, maybe].  Saros fucked around with this message at 14:22 on Jan 21, 2018 |
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Jan 21, 2018 05:39
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You've spoiled us with the rate of updates Saros. Mars endures, we'll survive at the slower pace. Best of luck with your new job, real life always goes first.
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Jan 21, 2018 12:10
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Tell me you got the MoD grognard job.
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Jan 21, 2018 12:30
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That would be a laugh but unfortunately I am apparently too compromised to work for the MoD due to holding dual citizenship 
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Jan 21, 2018 17:20
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Saros posted:This may not seem immediately terrible but unfortunately about 60+% of the War of the Worlds was written and/or played out at "work." I hear that Saros, most of my job consists of pages and pages of spreadsheets so most of my Aurora time happens to be at work when my work and 'work' are effectively indistinguishable from more than like a foot away.
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Jan 21, 2018 18:11
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Completely understand Saros, and I want to thank you as well for putting up such a great story. I hope we do indeed see it through to the end. As an aside, I think now we need a thunk clock emoji to better embody the MAD-paranoia.
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Jan 21, 2018 19:27
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Good luck with the new gig, man. This has been a great read.
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Jan 22, 2018 02:18
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Congratulations on and good luck with your now job.
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Jan 22, 2018 02:20
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I just got caught up. This thread is fantastic, keep up the good work.
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Jan 22, 2018 03:20
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Saros posted:That would be a laugh but unfortunately I am apparently too compromised to work for the MoD due to holding dual citizenship New Zealand is truly the most traitorous of the Commonwealth states.
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Jan 23, 2018 06:03
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And now for someone, completely different. --- Location: *CLASSIFIED* Approximate Location: Deep underground on the Eurasian landmass. Everyone wants to rule the world, at the end of the day. Oh, some deny their own impulses and make themselves cattle to be led. And some cloak it in moralism or pandering to collectivism or religion; but they’re still trying. But it took a certain hint of brutal pragmatism hidden behind a quasi-benevolent façade to be able to pull it off in the open, as it were. Make it clear you needed nothing but ambition to get the job done, for the good of everyone who didn't know better. Now, admittedly, Director-General Putin realised, she had not seen anyone in a long time be so blatantly open in their ambitions as Admiral Govyadina, as he flouted the temerity to talk down to her from orbit. … well, excepting her father, maybe. “Madam Director, we’re merely putting down mad dogs and political dissidents. All my fleet would be doing would be deploying marines with anti-terrorist training. What could you possibly be objecting to in an emergency police action--” “That it is against my standing orders not to, Syraya.” She allowed herself the insulting first-name use to cover her rising hackles. Not that she’d ever admit it openly, but she was beginning to regret that order to go soft on the proles to try and pull the sting from the Firsters’ criticisms. Damned ungrateful wretches – she was Director-General Yekaterina Putin of Terra, and so leader of Mankind! drat the Earth Firsters, drat Mars and their ridiculous rebellion, and most of all, drat these idiotic power-playing hardliners! Too many followed her father’s example, she knew now. “Now stop wasting fuel and time and get back to your posts. Mars will be watching to exploit this, and you have an orbit to protect.” Admiral Govyadina stared back for a moment. She could see him mulling over the consequences of this action, against the consequences of continuing this disruption. Good. She would naturally take measures against him once the crisis was over, but right now a little bit of her father’s cold control would settle the matter. A few seconds later, the Admiral nodded. The feed died; a harsh brush of laughter from the staff officers around her broke the tension of the moment. Good! With this fool back in his box, the rioters could be handled. And after that, the Firsters. She turned to speak to one of her agents about getting -- And then, a sound rang out against the laughter and silenced the generals. The sad, determined sound of an officer summoning up the courage to say something that may well end his career and life. No matter how true it is. “Director…” Captain B. Slamkovich, ‘Biff’ to his friends, wobbled to his feet, clearing his throat again to try and bring some colour back to his cheeks. “Director-General! We have confirmation; marines inbound.” Precious moments passed in silence as everyone turned to look to her for guidance. For a few more, she found herself gripping the armrests of her chair and unable to respond. Then she forced herself to her feet, pushed the Captain back down into his chair and slammed his hand onto one of the missile authorisation keys. The words out of her mouth were familiar, but sounded so far away as she reached for the other, and the two recited the commands now so familiar after the actions of the rogue that killed her father and gave Mars, the Firsters and now even her own people such foolish aspirations of ruling— No, she corrected herself. No, not foolish, she thought as the bunker quaked as the first of many missiles streaked skyward to shatter the marines’ shuttles before they could land. They were just brutally pragmatic. Yes, everyone wants to rule the world. Except, perhaps, right now the woman who’s now realising that she’s lost grip on her hand on the tiller.
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Jan 25, 2018 00:08
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^^^ It's canon guys. Update coming shortly.
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Jan 25, 2018 00:10
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Wait so you're saying it's cannon that it takes earth at least 20-30 seconds with double authorisation just to unlock fire control for purely defensive surface to orbit missiles? And that's assuming the director happens to be present in the room at the time of attack. I don't know how we got this choice tibit of intel, but there can be only one rational conclusion from it. Nuke Earth Now
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Jan 25, 2018 00:18
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But guys we can trust her she talked vaguely about refooooorrrrrmmmmmsssssss  At least I'm honest when I say I want Mars to rule the world. Also, surrender to Earth.
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Jan 25, 2018 00:25
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That's right! We may be assholes, but at least we're honest about our assholery!
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Jan 25, 2018 00:27
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Crazycryodude posted:But guys we can trust her she talked vaguely about refooooorrrrrmmmmmsssssss E: Also it turns out the daughter of Putin was a complete piece of poo poo who only had the veneer of reforming. Who would've thunk it. ChaseSP fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Jan 25, 2018 |
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Jan 25, 2018 00:37
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Turn Mars into a Death Planet and ram Earth.
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Jan 25, 2018 00:41
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HAH The Admiralty is bad, Putina is bad, anyone in any power from Earth is bad. I am very glad we broke them rather than let one get a leg over the other. Edit: Surrender to Earth now
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Jan 25, 2018 00:50
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ChaseSP posted:No we have to capitulate. Well, about half the thread. What's the other half's excuse though?
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Jan 25, 2018 01:07
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 Dominion just saved Mars from facist Terra. You're never getting off Jack's wild ride. Jack2142 fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Jan 25, 2018 |
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 Last time we checked in our intrepid captain-goons had (easily) blown away a pair of Terran cruisers and were overwhelmed with the urge to slap their own backs until duty interfered 10th Feb, 0445hrs  Remember this place? How the Terrans put the screws on until you gave up a colony and rights to explore the ruins?  Turns out the planners for Dominion of Sol didn't and two brigades of Mars's finest are in place on Ranginui V.  The Terran warships insystem have all withdrawn to Nova Sol after the Alien attack so you have the whole system to yourselves.  Back in Sol after a bout of barely restrained glee a fireplan is agreed on by the discord cabal. Four salvoes onto a Terran Battlecruiser and one onto each of their short range Destroyers.   Two Colliers packed with missiles are lifting off from Mars and heading to rendezvous with the newfleet units.  Salvo one!  Four go out against the lead Battlecruiser.  It turns out your fire controls are tuned too high to lock the small destroyers at this range so you will have to close further. 10 Feb, 0503hrs  Fifteen minutes later the fighters returning to the Ceres force move out of range of the fighter-seeking sensors on your ships. Shortly after they turn off their active sensors and are lost to your EM passive sensors as well.  Sensor ranges, the North-Palmer is your primary anti missile/fighter sensor. 10 Feb, 0509hrs   Five minutes later you can lock on the enemy Destroyers and four more salvos go out. 10 Feb, 0520hrs  Ten uneventful minutes later your first salvo makes its attack runs.  No Anti-missile fire is present or they all miss and the missiles stoop in hard on the lead Battlecruiser.   Desperate last minute laser fire reaches out but to no avail. It gets absolutely hammered by forty 500kt detonations, spewing atmosphere from multiple breaches. An engine goes into shutdown...  1984kps... Things are not looking up.   The second wave is attritioned by AMM fire losing 13/50 missiles.  It doesn't matter in the slightest as thirty-two missiles strike the lagging Battlecruiser and it disappears behind a wall of fire emerging as a spinning wreck. One of its engines explodes violently but it hardly matters in the raging inferno.  Added Space of the missile Cruiser Exciting New People gets to paint a BC silhouette on his ship.  Unfortunately this means the second two salvos aimed at the BC are bereft of a target.  HOWEVER! The nerds at HQ decided that it would be good to include a seeker warhead on your new anti-ship missiles. Lots of smugness is exuded by the certain parts of the discord cabal responsible for this design as the missiles continue on course instead of detonating and they will attack anything that passes inside the small blue ring denoting their sensor range.  Salvo 3 cruises in without a target, AMM fire takes out a few...  And a few more...  Target acquired!  Kaboom!  Added Space excitedly slaps a missile Destroyer silhouette on the side of his command chair to questioning glances from his bridge crew.  Two railgun Destroyers take a good lot of hits from the rest of the salvo but neither dies.  Salvo 4, the Terran's are firing everything at it in desperation, even anti-ship missiles which the Strength 4 explosion indicates.  I mean they are really trying especially for ships who left a bunch of drunk crew behind in the Ceres revolt.  Mars doesn't care however, two destroyers vanish in sheets of flame as the fourth salvo homes in and strikes.  Added Space is basically beside himself by this point.  And Drone II in his second incarnation for Mars gets his first kill. 10 Feb, 0524hrs  The Mustangs lead by Col. The JJ are still searching for the enemy fighters but have had no luck yet and they are getting awful close to the main Ceres force.  The Main fleet is 41m km and the Mustangs are only 9.5m km.  After a couple more minutes of fruitless searching for the enemy fighters the discord cabal orders the Mustangs to retreat. Just in time too! Terra-o-vision.  They nearly got you JJ!  In other news it's a poo poo day for the Terran's all around, they can't even range on your ships because of your ECM. 10 Feb, 0533hrs  About now there's drama forming over near Mars orbit.  Firstly in the belt your missile wave originally aimed at the Terran Destroyers of the Ceres force is still closing, with their seeker warheads they should re-target if they get into range.  The fighters you scrambled to intercept the strike launched by the Terran's Ceres invasion force are approaching range with their sensors off to avoid giving away their position until they can strike. There's also the colliers to worry about.    Awkwardly the Terran fighter-bombers are a minuscule 300 Tons so actually fall just under the size the main sensor and fire control of the Gallileo and Phobos are designed to pick up which significantly reduces their effective range.  Suddenly, at 22.5m km the Terran fighters alter course for an intercept with your fighter sortie.  Quick thinking Wing commander Col. Fray II realises they must have detected his fighters. However upon turning on his own sensors he realises that the enemy bombers are too small to be detected at this range! He salvos two size 2 and six size 1 missiles at each of the enemy Scout fighters hoping to blind them.  Only the Owl class have tonnages displayed which means they are being detected by active sensors. The rest are being picked up by the thermal sensors of the Martian DSTS. This also has the incredibly annoying effect of occluding half the screen as Aurora does not stack similar contacts picked up by only passive sensors into a single line   Fray II orders the fighters to turn away to open the range for any return strike. However the Terrans mimic his move and start to fall back as well! If the Terran fighters move outside of the 27.5m km range of the sensor on the Galileo scouts or the 32m km range of the Phobos fire control's their missiles will self destruct. Fighter against Fighter combat is tricky, you usually can't actually tell if an enemy has launched because missiles are so hard to detect. The Galileo class is rather special in having a specialised sensor capable of detecting missiles at 450k km but even that is only seconds given missiles travel at 20,000kps. That's all for now, Discuss!
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Jan 25, 2018 01:21
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If they're so drat desperate, they can offer their unconditional surrender.
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Jan 25, 2018 01:28
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POOL IS CLOSED posted:If they're so drat desperate, they can offer their unconditional surrender. They wouldnt be hardliners if they were willing to submit to others demands.
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Jan 25, 2018 01:31
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ChaseSP posted:They wouldnt be hardliners if they were willing to submit to others demands. They can volunteer it, they don't have to await an offer. 
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Jan 25, 2018 01:33
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Saros posted:HOWEVER! The nerds at HQ decided that it would be good to include a seeker warhead on your new anti-ship missiles. Lots of smugness is exuded by the certain parts of the discord cabal responsible for this design as the missiles continue on course instead of detonating and they will attack anything that passes inside the small blue ring denoting their sensor range. For everyone not in the Discord, Saros has previously referred to our new missiles as overengineered wastes of MSP. I expect a full apology and also a few Terran BB's getting blown up by GM fiat as reparations for this slander.
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Jan 25, 2018 01:34
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Serpentis posted:as Admiral Govyadina Serpentis posted:Admiral Govyadina Serpentis posted:Govyadina 
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All those clusters of 5 damage, are we playing Battletech or Aurora here?
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RAW BEEF GIVE ME BACK MY NAVY -Putina
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Jan 25, 2018 04:13
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I credit the good luck charm of doggomancy. I got a doggo today, she is a good girl and kept me safe.
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Jan 25, 2018 05:43
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ChaseSP posted:RAW BEEF GIVE ME BACK MY NAVY -Putina Ahhhhhh, don't worry, Terra. Admiral Govyadina is totally writing up his "I totally planned this" speech; he must have deliberately thrown in this series of screw-ups to sucker in the Martians. Give him more ships so he can win in the next battle! You'll see, doubters!  the JJ posted:I credit the good luck charm of doggomancy. I got a doggo today, she is a good girl and kept me safe. Also very correct.
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scavy131 posted:All those clusters of 5 damage, are we playing Battletech or Aurora here? Don't be silly, we're playing an Honor Harrington simulator.
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Jan 25, 2018 08:56
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Excellent results so far. Let's keep hammering at them with everything we've got while they're split off from their newfleet and helpless. Time to seize Ranganui? The Terran assets there should be a valuable negotiating chip however the main battle goes.
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Jan 25, 2018 12:55
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RA Rx posted:Excellent results so far. Let's keep hammering at them with everything we've got while they're split off from their newfleet and helpless. This is entirely opposite of our stated goal of helping rebelling colonies self-determine. Not that that should necessarily stop us 
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Jackson Taus posted:This is entirely opposite of our stated goal of helping rebelling colonies self-determine. Not that that should necessarily stop us It's important to understand that a) stated goals are always, always bullshit and b) once we've conquered the Terran colony in Ranginui it'll take about five minutes to find someone who'll say "we were horribly oppressed by our colonial overlords and you saved us, thank you Martian liberators who are DEFINITELY NOT our new colonial overlords" Also c) literally everyone knows this is all about the imperialism, so the ones who are on board will pretend to believe any idiot figleaf and the ones who aren't will protest no matter how good our spin is.
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Jan 25, 2018 15:46
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Look, it's not imperialism, everything we
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Jan 25, 2018 15:52
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Oh yes, my mistake, we are certainly big on the freedom and democracy. Look how free and democratic the Martian Marines are. Don't you want to be like them
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Jan 25, 2018 16:02
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Now gentlemen, let's be Reasonable. L'esprit de Révolution takes all kinds. Besides at this point since the UT seems to have withdrawn entirely from Ranganui, we have to ensure that there's some sort of fleet presence above every colony in the system to keep defense against Fartcrab attacks, since that's why everyone insists on keeping like half of our fleet in Ranganui. I for one still recommend recalling at least one squadron of our Newfleet from Ranganui back to Sol while the rest consolidate our hold on Ranganui. I know they won't get there in time for the current shooting match, that's fine. We won't come out of this unscathed regardless of how +/- fanatics we are and we need to consider replacing any potential losses before they happen, not afterwards.
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Jan 25, 2018 16:28
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Look, when the Terrans withdrew from Raganui they clearly violated the treaty requiring them to keep tonnage in Raguni thus forfeiting any and all colonial and xeno-archeological holdings therein. Thus we are deploying marines to prevent the conquest of the planet by Fartcrab infiltrators.
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Veloxyll posted:Look, when the Terrans withdrew from Raganui they clearly violated the treaty requiring them to keep tonnage in Raguni thus forfeiting any and all colonial and xeno-archeological holdings therein. Thus we are deploying marines to prevent the conquest of the planet by Fartcrab infiltrators. Not that I care about the treaty at this point, but it doesn't require them to keep ships in Rangi.
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