OOC Thread

[Fatebringer]

I think I got all my posts up some are pretty small and you'll have to look out for em

[Jeyar]

Ouch - I got a smackdown from the FWL. Why didn't the Dracs get one?  

I wonder if we have to be more careful with dates in the future. Grover hasn't even left yet to go to the CoPS meeting and isn't even going to the vote - he sent another famous person of the Taurian Concordat's who's who list (which means probably unknown to anyone else) to vote per his instructions - the reasoning of a leader should be left to that leader to speak I'd think. On the other hand, a call for clarity should be everyone's duty.  

Edit: but really, just how many factions (and who) are part of the SL? There are the big 6, a doggie, a bull and a bubble - anyone else?

[GraeGor]

And ya'll wonder why we Clanners dont like the Successor Houses

[Jeyar]

You know, the clans should have a "Class for Innocent Spheroids" to teach about their culture.

(Instead of waiting until they are bondmen you may say)

[chaosxtreme]

Ouch - I got a smackdown from the FWL. Why didn't the Dracs get one?  

I wonder if we have to be more careful with dates in the future. Grover hasn't even left yet to go to the CoPS meeting and isn't even going to the vote - he sent another famous person of the Taurian Concordat's who's who list (which means probably unknown to anyone else) to vote per his instructions - the reasoning of a leader should be left to that leader to speak I'd think. On the other hand, a call for clarity should be everyone's duty.  

Edit: but really, just how many factions (and who) are part of the SL? There are the big 6, a doggie, a bull and a bubble - anyone else?

Eh I just figured it was about time for one Great House to start treating the Periphery...like the periphery.

Great House's DON'T meet treat even the top 3 Periphery states like real states. Let alone NIOPS, Randis and well it doesn't exist but the Rim Collection since I like talking in three's.

And here we have someone from NIOPS as First Lord, The Davion's GIVING I mean GIVING worlds to the Taurians for their help. And the FWL isn't beyond reproach either. By sheer dint of military force maintaining the MoC as a state. For....no appreciable gain that I can see? They don't even have a vote in the SL to throw our way...and they were best buds with Victor Steiner-Davion who kidnapped and killed Thomas the fake's son....someone please explain to me why we didn't join the CPS beat down and then dictate who would get what? Or at least annex a couple of border systems in exchange for our 'help'? I mean Thomas Marik is the ghandi of successor lords but after 3057 he didn't go back to post war borders and say "well that taught you a lesson".


So from now on until our respect is earned (By respect aided us in a significant and lasting way like...saved us from invasion or helped us gain significant territory). Periphery states get treated as one of the following in FWL Role Play of any FWL charachter that has not lived in that state for a significant number of years.


- A curiosity.
- A junior partner that we humor.
- A jumped up pirate with delusions of nobility.
- A backwards peasant in needing of enlightenment (possibly at gun point while economically exploited).
- Some sort of animal that has managed to simulate civilization, walk up right and does a good approximation of statecraft. But still...just an animal.

Mind you none of these roll's are directed against any particular Periphery state...assure you we think of all of you that way. 

The Draconis Combine's treated differently because they have a Council Seat from the Origional Star League (Its very much a your Nouveau Riche and I'm Old Money type of bias). Among near equals (as the Captain-General is obviously the superior morally and otherwise to the other Council Lords) that sort of give and take is to be expected. There will of course be a measured response to gather the vote's to kill something near and dear to their hearts as well in the future.

[GraeGor]

You know, the clans should have a "Class for Innocent Spheroids" to teach about their culture.

(Instead of waiting until they are bondmen you may say)

we do, there are several Clan Academies in Adder Territory, so feel free to send any of your population that's interested in learning about the Clans and our culture our way...we'll even waive the enrollment and tuition costs

[chaosxtreme]

You know, the clans should have a "Class for Innocent Spheroids" to teach about their culture.

(Instead of waiting until they are bondmen you may say)

we do, there are several Clan Academies in Adder Territory, so feel free to send any of your population that's interested in learning about the Clans and our culture our way...we'll even waive the enrollment and tuition costs

Dispatch VINH and S.A.F.E. Dark Shadows personnel to Adder space. check!

It is now on my agenda. :-)

[DisGruntled]

How about we meet at Tharkhad and split the difference? 

[GraeGor]

You know, the clans should have a "Class for Innocent Spheroids" to teach about their culture.

(Instead of waiting until they are bondmen you may say)

we do, there are several Clan Academies in Adder Territory, so feel free to send any of your population that's interested in learning about the Clans and our culture our way...we'll even waive the enrollment and tuition costs

Dispatch VINH and S.A.F.E. Dark Shadows personnel to Adder space. check!

It is now on my agenda. :-)

I suppose I shoulda mentioned that those Academies are of the Military Variety and more like Clan Boot Camp...hehehe

[Jeyar]

You do realize that I had no idea what the thinking was back then either, I'm not saying anyone was OOC, I'm saying that I had no idea what anyone that voted for it was thinking. 

[chaosxtreme]

You do realize that I had no idea what the thinking was back then either, I'm not saying anyone was OOC, I'm saying that I had no idea what anyone that voted for it was thinking. 

I'm not saying people were OOC.

I'm just saying until I'm given a reason. Periphery states do not equal = awe, equal, or respected opponent.

Weird curiousity? Sure.

Junior Partner? No problem.


I'm quite sure you and the other Periphery players will make sure it jumps up and bite's me before overly long. And I am fine with that. :-)

But since I have several active periphery powers on my border I am quite fine with diplomatic sniping, oneupsmanship and out and out political back stabbing.

Nor is there any need to be polite about it. :-)

[Jeyar]

No skin on my nose - I actually thought of having Janice (not the old lady you think is there) make a bunch of jokes about your comments, but while it would have funny, Janice is lighthearted in spite of being so focused (recovering from her disease and all).

[chaosxtreme]

Go for it please! I want to take some of the Grim Darkness out of the Star League. Think of the current FWL Ambassador as a Scotch-Hispanic Alan Shore from Boston Legal....you think he is giving the Star League fits...wait until he becomes Speaker and Thomas has to deal with him  on a daily basis!

:-)


Janice she's the Calderon with the degenerative disease that is wheel chair bound right?

[Jeyar]

Not anymore - she's not only doing well, she's super buff - went slightly too far in the physical therapy if you know what I mean (looks a bit angular and rough). She also is having a kid via the Taurian's Bacta-tank knockoff of the Clan's Iron Womb, plus is now fully skilled at using BA and is surprisingly good at an oddball set of skills (sort of used the 2nd edition as a start, then converted to 3rd and advanced her a bit - no other character like her). But that goes to why I didn't post her being funny – she feels sorry for the guy and is a nice person.

Well, outside of the BA that is.

[chaosxtreme]

Well good for her I'm glad she overcame it. Though it does raise the question what Grover is doing in his position when there is a Calderon who is fit and able and capable of heir's is around.


"And the man's just having a bit of a go at the First Lord because it plays well with the folks back home. At least better then the overly polite Council Lord setting,  given the adversarial inflammatory nature of the Free Worlds League Parliament. (We've had people called cowards, traitors and various other unprintable things on the floor of parliament."

Pity about the Joke's I was hoping to convince you to do the old "If I were your wife I would put arsenic in your tea" line.

So I could respond with "Madam if I were your husband I would drink it."