Posted by: Bryan Swartz
« on: August 31, 2023, 01:23:07 PM »FYI that's me also. I find that I often just don't enjoy playing games anymore if I'm not writing about them. Strange, but it is what it is.
Frankly, if the authors of fighting-related posts gave as much consideration for such trivia as "interest" and "depth", many AARs would be vastly improved for it.It is odd that so few exploit the incredible role play and depth potential of the game.
Thinking and writing is hard, I don't keep notes for school much less a game! If I do RP as I play I tend to just keep it between the ears.
Frankly, if the authors of fighting-related posts gave as much consideration for such trivia as "interest" and "depth", many AARs would be vastly improved for it.It is odd that so few exploit the incredible role play and depth potential of the game.
Interesting read. I admit I usually pick names either from a list or based on some characteristics of the system and then never bother renaming anything even if there was a solid reason to do so.I normally do similar, but this was an unusual game in many ways. Glad you found it interesting.
You're early. And brief.Those two observations are connected.
Given what we know of politicians, this is a bold claim.It was only a little something, so the bar was set reassuringly low.
A rather choice assessment of needs, here.A necessary sacrifice in order to achieve brief and thus early.
It is perhaps a telling sign of the British scientific establishment of the period, that so much attention was devoted to the abdominal sections of the Automotons and, apparently, so little attention devoted to the other components of their anatomy. Do we yet know, for instance, whether the nervous or the locomotive systems are also necro-mechanical, or is this merely an assumption borne from the coupling of scientific laziness and, per the topic, nominative determinism? Either way, the possibility that these Automotons are not actually that, but rather are composed of disembodied heads welded to necro-mechanical abdomens which are mounted on giant spider legs merits further study at great government expense, and I am submitting a proposal this week to that effect.These are the sort of questions the B/G scientists should be researching, alas they are too busy doing normative determinism.
And here, of course, our glamorous author is to be commended for his excellent grasp on matters of historical fact, particularly where said fact stands in opposition to popular perception.There is quite a gap between the perception and reality of the Spartans, well as much as the reality as we're ever likely to know given the time gap.
Please tell me this was a gift from the RNG.It was indeed, though I think it gets even better.
Aww.I might have to do one of the Dreadnought tomes as the next Book in the Library.
Clearly we have missed out on some important events, surely an oversight and not intentional due to the poor light these events might shed on Imperial British history.The 5th Battle of Epsilon Indi was a bit of a damp squib. Both the Renowns and some supporting cruisers once again couldn't overcome the massed AAM spam from the orbital missile bases.
Because clearly, not enough attention has already been given to this critical and badly understudied phenomenon.We all look forward to the future version where there actually is something useful for the B/G scientist to do, apart from the one that does the terraforming research.
Frankly, if the authors of fighting-related posts gave as much consideration for such trivia as "interest" and "depth", many AARs would be vastly improved for it.It is odd that so few exploit the incredible role play and depth potential of the game.
At any rate, another thrilling and exciting update, at least for the academics in the audience of which I note two present; in fact, as these form the entire commenting audience to date we may safely dispense with the qualifier.What the academic audience lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality.
Given the current frightening pace, far exceeding even the most liberal expectations, I look forward to the next in the series at this time next week.Though sadly that quality does not extend to realistic time estimations.
I look forward to the arrival of this much-anticipated second post in mid-2024. Part 1, of course.
As the first Governor of Sparta I flatter myself that I know a little something of the history of the early years of the colony and it's people and may have something to contribute on the subject.
until the Epsilon Indi Incident and the disastrous and shocking first contact with the Automotons. The full story of that incident need not detain us,
with our current knowledge of the abdominal necro-mechanical nature of the Automotons
The culmination of the incident was the near-catastrophic attempted attack by the 1st Cruiser Squadron, the ships suffering heavy damage and barely escaping the system intact having done no damage to the enemy beyond depleting their missile stocks.
The choice was in fact a degree of gallows humour from the officers involved, while it was expected that the defenders of the colony both in orbit and on the ground would fight hard, it was also expected they would inevitably lose such was the technological advantage of the enemy. Thus the colony was named for a group who were 'all bark and no bite' a name which proved sadly prescient;
It would fall to the new governor, the dramatically named Max Power,
Governor Power made the unfortunate decision [...] perhaps inspired by his own "colonial" background as a graduate of the Luna Academy.
like many an ambitious colony it was decided to build a capital ship, in this case a variant of the Renown-class battlecruiser. The technical specs need not detain us
Governor Power was reassigned to Gomorrah (a new colony in the Nocturne system)
It would be Nimrod and Nocturne who became the frontline systems
The second Battle of Epsilon Indi
This was followed up by the 4th Battle of Epsilon Indi
The final blow was the first triumphant deployment of HMS Dreadnought in the 6th Battle of Epsilon Indi
If a theory for predicting when and how this phenomenon will manifest could be developed I feel sure it would be of great value to the Empire and may finally attract the official attention the subject deserves.
OOC Notes - I ended up with a fair amount of depth behind things in this game and I do hope this barely tangentially fighting related post is of interest, though it is of course far too late to do anything about that.
The Journal of Analytical Anthropology
[^4]: A worthy member of any pantheon of Heroes of Empire, Queen Elizabeth IV "The Ever Victorious" is especially respected and venerated by those with a connection to Australia; It was under her rule that the country was liberated from the Eastern Syndicalist Pact and brought back home to the Empire in the mid 22nd Century.
[^6]: As an example the the governmental definition used in elections and civil service matters is based on sectors, Britannia sector being the core and everything else the frontier. The Imperial Communication, Hyper-Post and Transit Commission instead defines things in terms of number of jumps from the Sol sector, which gives similar but different results. In contrast most commercial shipping firms will base prices and insurance on distance in billion km from Britannia, being less concerned with the number of jumps than the time (and fuel) required. Finally the Admiralty eschews all of those options and instead has a definition based on security status and distance to the nearest unexplored jump point.
A crude definition would be that coreworld status is not granted, it is claimed and then others are dared to object.
Cultural Nominative Determinism is a valuable ontological lens
In addition there is potential for predictive powers and even beneficial policy making, given the power of colony names to influence development it is arguable that sociological deterministic considerations should be given great weight when names are decided and assigned.
will there be a psychological 'kick-back' against attempts to force a destiny onto a group?
Finally greater research into historical examples is required to deepen our understanding and increase the evidence base, the sociocultural history of the Laconia system and it's Spartans is recommended as likely being a rich source in this regard.
---OOC Notes:Same universe as the Unbuilt Warships thread. Indeed this grew out of an idle thought about a ship class name and became this, which doesn't even address that though as it's just background and setup for the second post which will.