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If leader is a weak one who cannot handle such matters then he should not be speaking about neutrality unless he wants to have a wall of platitudes which no one believes as his shield. Being neutral is hard, and you need to invest into it and if you crack then it is all over. This is one of the reason we choose leaders. They are forced to see the big picture, and no matter what kind of stance you take you WILL lose some people since they cannot reconcile themselves with the way you are running things. Making a grand stand about neutrality and then immediately going back on it is even larger hit on the morale. If captain cannot be trusted to follow his own policy immediately after it has been issued then how reliable or capable is he really? Could such man be trusted to follow through with any other grand, or lesser proclamations in the future?
Profit? This has nothing to do with profit, it is about keeping a stand you have chosen and being greater than ones base instincts. Leader here has utterly failed to see the grand scheme of things which is that there are literal demons invading the earth from beyond the veil. He chose get up and on his moral high-horse and kill fellow survivors unprovoked when there was a small change that diplomacy could be used to resolve the issue or at the least make it bearable. If the captain is unable to to even TALK with slavers due to the crew morale and opinions he is incompetence who needs to be replaced.
If there are examples that the fleet WILL talk with the most abhorrent and scummy groups, provide them with limited services for humanitarian reasons then all other groups will know that the fleet is not there for the head-shot and that is a shield and would give them ability to move and act freely to provide remains of humanity what they need to survive. To me this is a something that is worth losing some crewmen, who you might even help to get a ship with lots of guns so they can play the world police when you concentrate to more important things. What would have been lost with attempt to talk the bandits down, maybe accompanied with suitable show of force to make them see that they are a small fish, and giving them free advice that the really big fish, who are also your clients, do not like this slavery business at all.
It would be more risky and less gratifying, but not spineless at all in my mind.
Well I knew Rodrigo was gonna have an interesting time.
In other news, Reports say that the WSU is engaged with demonic followers in the Americas. Crystal followers in Mexico and biological monster followers in Brazil.
At least the microwaveboat got off at least one destructive shot instead of the storm humidity turning it into a St Elmos plasma event, before ignoring, forgetting, or notknowing about the presence of torpedos? Or was that they thought it would all be the same side?
AP rounds would be moreeffective against Crystal Golems due to harder but far more brittle? More difficult to damage at all, but when they are, the power is enough to really cause problems?
Merlin giving his initial lable of the local Element.
Sigh, edit due to old lapptop doing strange things with touchpad.
How does the FImFic text display handle unicode compared to standard USA Windows 98 ASCII?
Ive tried reading it in TXT in Wordpad, and apostrophes and Quotes are unicode 6,9 especially, which Wordpad on XP cant display. In plain TXT.
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Well the logic behind that fuckup was that it's a little hard to pay attention to the radio when you're dodging shots left and right ; so Mia probably didn't even notice she was drifting towards the approach vector of the torpedo until it was too late and it entered the homing phase of its trajectory.
I mean, I've never been shot at, much less by a dozen 105mm guns, but I'd wager it at least weighs on your mind when it happens.
As for the effectiveness in bad weather... with a sufficiently powerful ray it seems to me like it could reach its target. With massive energy loss of course, 'cause it superheats any particle caught in the beam.
To be fair, I don't know many things they're fighting that a 40mm APFSDS round couldn't damage. Question would rather be whether it would be more efficient to use frag rounds to avoid overpenetration or whether crystal golems are tough enough to weather shrapnel.
And, of course, the question as to whether or not .50 would work. I think it should. If you've ever seen an IFV or APC from up close... the likes of an up-armored humvee, baseline M113 or the Piranha / LAV25 family are still vulnerable to .50 AP munitions and they're rather beefy.
So unless crystal can provide the equivalent protection of 30mm of steel in a compact enough form such that could be carried by a thrall... no.
Not factoring in magical shields of course.
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I see your point, the previous arcs could have been handled differently. Still, that discussion does open up one thing I could implement and play around in the future.
Neutrality and the Switzerland clause are subject to interpretation.
Let's consider that the WSU operates at two levels: ship scale, and admiralty scale, with the former still having a lot of leeway to operate when they interact with colonies and offer assistance to connect them to the trade network.
Within the setting, I could fairly easily create arcs where the reaction of a specific Captain to a conflict would depend on their personality. You could have 'world-police types' like Dilip immediately pulling out the guns to defend the weak and whatnot.
Or more jaded captains like Skinner (I *have* thrown a lot of shit at the guy) that would rather use the neutrality clause as an excuse not to put themselves in harm's way and let the locals sort themselves out all on their own.
And the strictly mercantile types which would probably fit Lorelei's personnality more which I guess would be the kind of neutrality you're talking about.
I figure that last mercantile type would be the most likely to seize the reins of power at the admiralty-level of operations in the WSU down the line. Savior-types like Dilip do make good publicity for the faction as a whole, but his methods are exactly what would bar him from ever being an acceptable option as admiral. Skirmishes with bandits are fine, but a type like that working at a larger scale would be far too likely to get a mercantile faction like the WSU bogged down in conflicts they don't need to.
To sum it up: neutrality as a trope can be played around with.
Cleric using damage spells. Not the first time I've seen this happen. Hell when I played a Cleric in DnD, good character too, I was the heaviest hitter