Re: SDN Worlds 4 Commentary Thread IV
Posted: 2010-11-19 02:43pm
With the extended weekend coming up next week for us USicans, I'm going to try to get my head back in the game.
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Hurrah! Friendly dinosaurs! This evening I will PM you a series of all posts I've made mentioning your nation, just in case you want to skim.Akhlut wrote:With the extended weekend coming up next week for us USicans, I'm going to try to get my head back in the game.
Heh. Hence my Superiority references in my Suicide SPACE Police story, which (in very vague terms) tells the story of the war. Remember the Apexai's Spheroids of Annihilation, Battling Analyzers, Exponentiating Fields?Siege wrote:Well, that's pretty much ridiculously accurate insofar as I'm concerned.
OK. Let's see... events that are 'common knowledge' enough that you might plausibly react to them.Dark Hellion wrote:Since I am at least partially back in, can someone please give me the TLDR version of what has happened up until now so I can make some semi-informed decisions until I get a chance to read 30 something pages of the story thread?
That will be most appreciated; danke, Herr Simon.Simon_Jester wrote:Hurrah! Friendly dinosaurs! This evening I will PM you a series of all posts I've made mentioning your nation, just in case you want to skim.Akhlut wrote:With the extended weekend coming up next week for us USicans, I'm going to try to get my head back in the game.
Well, they are recent memory.Agent Sorchus wrote:I find it most interesting the priority that various people put to the events of the last several dozen pages.
There was no prior Centralist government, and anyone saying otherwise is a dirty liar.Agent Sorchus wrote:EDIT: I notice that neither of the above summaries note that the Centrality had an internal Coup after the Events of Pendleton and that is actually one of the more major events to happen to an active government yet.
Major international incidents, new nations appearing, and planets getting bombed would seem to top the list... what did I leave out, aside from the Centrality coup?Agent Sorchus wrote:I find it most interesting the priority that various people put to the events of the last several dozen pages.
I had my reasons for not listing it:EDIT: I notice that neither of the above summaries note that the Centrality had an internal Coup after the Events of Pendleton and that is actually one of the more major events to happen to an active government yet.
To be fair, haven't there been major events that should have kept me in the loop?Simon_Jester wrote:Ah, Akhlut, about your most recent note...
I honestly think that a breakdown of communications would have drawn more attention than just "nothing happening." "Holy shit we've lost contact with our allies!" is bigger news than "tum te tum te tum..."
For all the time since you left, I'd just assumed that no major news-attracting issues had taken place and that our favorite dinosaurs had just kept carrying on business as usual during your absence.
Well, much more interesting than "the major political parties are completely deadlocked, so nothing has happened at all because no one can agree to do squat."But a coup attempt/minor civil war is interesting. Will draft reply shortly.
It isn't that you leave anything out, it is just that you think of things in groups while steve has a memory that is more in a timeline. Just a little interesting observation.Simon_Jester wrote:Major international incidents, new nations appearing, and planets getting bombed would seem to top the list... what did I leave out, aside from the Centrality coup?Agent Sorchus wrote:I find it most interesting the priority that various people put to the events of the last several dozen pages.
But of the events you listed one of them (Imperium bombarding a planet out of pique) is really almost not news, since it wasn't a priority in story posts. So... if you are thinking of Worlds less as a game of politics and more of a interactive story the coup is far more important than the idle amusements of the Imperium Navy. Even then with the recent Esper Olympics and international pirate hunt both involving post coup Centrality the politics of the Centrality are far more important than you might think.I had my reasons for not listing it:EDIT: I notice that neither of the above summaries note that the Centrality had an internal Coup after the Events of Pendleton and that is actually one of the more major events to happen to an active government yet.
1) Anyone not already familiar with the irrational behavior of Enduvos (which Dark Hellion is probably not) won't see his replacement by a saner, more competent triumvirate as major news unless they are closely concerned with the Centrality.
2) You and I are closely concerned with the Centrality since it's a relatively near neighbor; the Emissaries of XylyX have no reason to be similarly concerned.
3) Given their limited understanding of human/near-human behavior as portrayed by DH, the Emissaries might well not react at all to finding out the coup had occurred.
...Sort of. But nothing that's happened that demanded a NenAltKik response; it would not surprise anyone to learn that your nation had chosen of its own free will not to become involved in any major storyline that's happened since Bannerman. The issues most likely to draw your attention (which I will flag for you) are affairs in the Feelipeens star system (between you, me, and Shep) and what Baerne's been up to in the Voyageur star system (which I will also flag for you).Akhlut wrote:To be fair, haven't there been major events that should have kept me in the loop?
Naaaaaaah.Edit: I can retcon if need be and can go with "Legislature squabbling, military forced into sitting around" if my alternate idea violates SOD.
I only listed it because it involved a planet getting the crap blasted out of it, and because I was already listing other planets that had been bombarded. That one was just thrown in for completeness, and because it amused me to do so.Agent Sorchus wrote:But of the events you listed one of them (Imperium bombarding a planet out of pique) is really almost not news, since it wasn't a priority in story posts.
From the perspective of my own storytelling, the Centrality's new triumvirate is simply "ah, good, someone we can talk to is in charge now!" The Umerians tip their hats to the new constitution, take a bow for the new revolution, and just keep playing.So... if you are thinking of Worlds less as a game of politics and more of a interactive story the coup is far more important than the idle amusements of the Imperium Navy. Even then with the recent Esper Olympics and international pirate hunt both involving post coup Centrality the politics of the Centrality are far more important than you might think.
Eh, how did I miss that? I'll get on to it right away.MKSheppard wrote:I'd like to make a point, force lord:
Sheppard was about to ring up Colonel Winter when the Double-Red tabbed folder landed on his desk with a thud. Looking up, he saw the stern face of the Grand Dominion's Secure Courier.
Note the terms:
Folder.....secure courier.
As in actually physically delivering hard copy across the light years. No tight beam transmissions, no nothing.
The post has been in the work for... a month?Force Lord wrote:Well Fin, you wanted Shady to post something. There you have it.
The eternal battle of immersion versus ease of following. Le sigh.Simon_Jester wrote:I like it, Akhlut, though I have to say that the extensive use of the NenAltKik language tends to detract from the story in some ways by populating it with nouns the audience can't follow. We wind up with "Admiral X, a member of the [noun], was lauded for his heroic victory over the [noun] in which he captured two [noun]" or some such...