As soon as I gave myself permission to bypass Sesmar Station
The next story in the line up is rolling right out.
Added about 5000 or 6000 words today
Happy Jay
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Great Location + no plot + no story.
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jayphailey
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Mickey Spillane "Whenever I get stuck, I have two guys come through the door with guns"
There was a conflict there. A Shard battlegroup rolled up and said "This is ours now"
But they were too far away from the shard to make it really stick. Captain Gian knew it, but wanted to make the Federation negotiate hard to avoid a shooting match.
The point was to illustrate how the Shard approached it
Ah, that's why. I could have Gian tell Li'ira and the rest of the folks at Semar station that they weren't considered "real people" by the Shard - so the Shard didn't feel obligated to respect their claims
But that's it The story is a dead end because its dumb, the shard swouldn't send a battlegroup. They'd send a long range explorer filled with expendable xenophiles.
They'd meet people, make friends and gather info and take that back to the Shard and the Shad would plan a long term campaign - it wouldn't play out for a long time.
Oops, work calls
There was a conflict there. A Shard battlegroup rolled up and said "This is ours now"
But they were too far away from the shard to make it really stick. Captain Gian knew it, but wanted to make the Federation negotiate hard to avoid a shooting match.
The point was to illustrate how the Shard approached it
Ah, that's why. I could have Gian tell Li'ira and the rest of the folks at Semar station that they weren't considered "real people" by the Shard - so the Shard didn't feel obligated to respect their claims
But that's it The story is a dead end because its dumb, the shard swouldn't send a battlegroup. They'd send a long range explorer filled with expendable xenophiles.
They'd meet people, make friends and gather info and take that back to the Shard and the Shad would plan a long term campaign - it wouldn't play out for a long time.
Oops, work calls
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You're playing the Shard here. They got a decent look at how a Federation battle cruiser fights vs the Dragons. A battle cruiser appointed like a first class hotel.
No doubt their assumed superiority is getting kicked up the ranks. And their crowns slow advancement to a crawl. The case any time orthodoxy becomes a virtue.
Today is a loss. I got yabed in the yeye. I got up early so we got some work done in the morning.
No doubt their assumed superiority is getting kicked up the ranks. And their crowns slow advancement to a crawl. The case any time orthodoxy becomes a virtue.
Today is a loss. I got yabed in the yeye. I got up early so we got some work done in the morning.
-- The Innkeeper
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jayphailey
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Yeah, they're working on gathering more information. You can't make good decisions without information.
Also, they have the Oron collapse zone right in their lap - so they needed to try to get in there, while the Klingons, Orions and Everyone else is in a land grab in there.
So in a Maps and Strategy sense, they going to move deliberately until they know more.
But they will be digging up Xenophiles and giving them old ships to poke with.
Also, they have the Oron collapse zone right in their lap - so they needed to try to get in there, while the Klingons, Orions and Everyone else is in a land grab in there.
So in a Maps and Strategy sense, they going to move deliberately until they know more.
But they will be digging up Xenophiles and giving them old ships to poke with.
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From what you've said it is fighting over clinkers. Dead and recovering worlds where archeology is the only stock in trade. Klingons are going to give a a once over and leave. No glory, or profit. Orions have religious reasons, which will interfere with interpretation. The Federation is doing science without presumption.jayphailey wrote: ↑Wed Jun 04, 2025 7:05 amYeah, they're working on gathering more information. You can't make good decisions without information.
Also, they have the Oron collapse zone right in their lap - so they needed to try to get in there, while the Klingons, Orions and Everyone else is in a land grab in there.
So in a Maps and Strategy sense, they going to move deliberately until they know more.
But they will be digging up Xenophiles and giving them old ships to poke with.
Someone smart in the Shard might conclude, let them spend the resources. We can spin the findings. I assume that "news" does not exist there.
Owning Oron is owning a money pit. As long as you have access let the non-believer have the keys. That way a rival Orion group cannot deny your access.
Possession of the Home world might be enough to get the Orion colonies to pull together for a push, but when they get news of the kind of money pit the place is, that alliance is likely to fall in behind the Federation. Oron is not the shining planet with towers of diamond and rivers of latinum. It's a ruin where you have to wear respirators to breathe.
Big Rock Candy Mountain, but the ants got there first.
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jayphailey
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The Oron implosion zone has living planets with people on them, see the late Omoikane stories.
So it's worth expanding into
The Desert is has no class M planets in it
But Oron Itself has strong cultural and emotional relevance to the Shard - they claim to be survivors of the place. This claim is true. They think of themselves as the inheritors of the Great Oron Empire. No one from the Great Oron Empire would recognize them.
The Lords of the Orion Colonies really really DO NOT LIKE Oron and the Great Oron Empire, because it destroys their assumption that the Gold Orions are the Master Race, destined to rule all. If they are not Evolution's Chosen People, then a lot of their Culture falls apart.
So they'd like to shovel this whole thing under the rug.
Ratty Pirate bands, Opportunists and Optimists are heading into the Oron Implosion Zone to make their fortunes, uncaring of the supposed damage this does to the Orion Supremacist world view. They don't care about that shit (Except for being racist against greens) there's money and opportunity, for the right guy in the right place.
So, Eventually, The Shard is going to have a strong opinion about who owns Oron because it's technically their homeworld. Otherwise, their view of themselves as the pinnacle of civilization is harmed.
But that's all in the future, for right now
So it's worth expanding into
The Desert is has no class M planets in it
But Oron Itself has strong cultural and emotional relevance to the Shard - they claim to be survivors of the place. This claim is true. They think of themselves as the inheritors of the Great Oron Empire. No one from the Great Oron Empire would recognize them.
The Lords of the Orion Colonies really really DO NOT LIKE Oron and the Great Oron Empire, because it destroys their assumption that the Gold Orions are the Master Race, destined to rule all. If they are not Evolution's Chosen People, then a lot of their Culture falls apart.
So they'd like to shovel this whole thing under the rug.
Ratty Pirate bands, Opportunists and Optimists are heading into the Oron Implosion Zone to make their fortunes, uncaring of the supposed damage this does to the Orion Supremacist world view. They don't care about that shit (Except for being racist against greens) there's money and opportunity, for the right guy in the right place.
So, Eventually, The Shard is going to have a strong opinion about who owns Oron because it's technically their homeworld. Otherwise, their view of themselves as the pinnacle of civilization is harmed.
But that's all in the future, for right now
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Shocking, they may have to sit down and talk about it. Their "advanced technology" claim is burning, leaking, and radiating.
-- The Innkeeper