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True.
Interesting! RobCo uses laser assisted electric rifles, and the Technate uses Arc weapons.
Also RMB Search is back.
They also changed how the RMB search works:
cats dogs
cats | dogs
cats -dogs
"i like cats"
"cats dogs"~5
cats << dogs
^cats "^I like cats"
cats$ "I like cats$"
^cats$ "^i like cats$"
(cats | dogs) squirrels (cats | dogs) -squirrels (cats | dogs) (squirrels | llamas)
Now when you search words it will consider the spaces "AND" statements so it will look for posts that contain all of the words. Previously it considered spaces as OR statements where it would look for posts with any of the words.
Overall an improvement -- now it should be significantly easier to find old RMB posts so you can link to them in cases where they are still relevant.
Ryan Armaments L-84 Ashmaker Gatling Laser:
The Ryan Armaments L-84 Ashmaker Gatling Laser is a heavy weapon developed from the L-71 Ember Laser Rifle. It is bulky, thanks to a far larger and more powerful mini-reactor and cooling system. The power is routed through a series of four Ember barrels, which spin and emit a continuous hail of accurate and deadly laser fire, with minimal recoil issues. The Ashmaker is so named due to the fact that some targets, if struck with a sufficient number of energized lasers simultaneously, undergo spontaneous combustion. Even more rarely, a target may outright disintegrate, but that has only happened twice in the history of the deployment of the Ashmaker.
The Ashmaker is a fairly popular weapon in the Empire, and is often used by planetary defense forces if they do not have access to Hardlight tech. The L-84 is the primary heavy weapon of Ryan Security, mounted on dropships and vehicles, carried by operatives wearing the Rapture-developed T-1 Tanker power armor.
Year: 2017
Timmy City
Novo Wagondia
Cybus1
The Orson Empire
Felucian Planetary Republic
Socialist Republic of Andrew
Valiant has proposed a plan to create a recycling plant that would be able to recycle anything. He proposes that it be in Timmian Territory for neutrality reasons, that Cybusian Airships be used for transporting the more volatile wastes for safety reasons, that the Ocearan Government construct their new adaptive renewable energy generators on site, that timmian companies manage the maintenance of the facility, that wagain companies handle the nanobots needed for the facility, and companies around the world transport the low-risk waste and the resulting recycled materials.
This would create jobs in every country on earth even if some of the jobs are only in shipping items. It would be a loss for Valiant Enterprises as they'd be paying all of these contracts and making the recycled materials super cheap to incentivize their use by other companies, but they can afford to subsidize the effort in exchange for goodwill.
We believe this would be a good idea, as in addition to bringing profit to our companies, it may foster an easing of tensions between our two Empires.
Oceara and Novo Wagondia
Drakul tend to greatly anticipate solar eclipses, as they allow them to go out, however briefly, during a time they would normally be unable to. Ekon especially look forward to this, because they, unlike Ancients, are still vulnerable to sunlight. Even Ancients have to limit their exposure or risk horrific burns and incredible pain from too much UVC exposure. More malevolent Ancients may build up an army of Skals and Chimeron and then send them out to feed during an eclipse, taking advantage of the distracting solar event and the brief period of totality to operate as though it was nighttime. This will invariably result in casualties when totality ends, as the period of totality is often short, but it will typically infect many people in a short time, being worth the loss of feral to the sun. The Born are immune to UVC light’s harmful effects, but are still fascinated by eclipses, presumably due to their half-Drakul nature.
The Panopticon:
Forge looked at the reports. It appeared the Orsonians and Ocearans were gearing up for war. He could exploit this. He contacted an Agent in Berlin.
“Send twenty-five new Mr. Gusties and a few Ashmaker Gatling Lasers to Port Dagon via automated transport. Arrange an ‘accident’, wherein it crosses into Orsonian airspace and is forced down. The Orsonians will no doubt seize the cargo for analysis. That should give their energy weapons and military robotics programs a windfall, give them them plenty of material to work with. From there, arrange for a shipment of Stimpaks, a vial of Regenex, a few vials of Drakul blood, and several dozen regenerative Gene Tonics to be sent to agents within Oceara, and make sure it gets intercepted by the Ocearans. If we play our cards right, both sides will adopt these ‘gifts’. Orsonians have better weapons, Ocearans have better medicine and healing capabilities, should even things out but still increase losses on both sides, or at least investment. From there, have agents in both countries stir up public sentiment as best they can, try to stir up emotion and anger, depict the other side as monsters who will never surrender. That way the public is inclined to reject attempts at surrender either from the enemy or by their government. We can slowly leak intelligence on the other sides preparations to the enemy, try to set up breakthroughs early on, which both sides will scramble to repair, ultimately resulting in stalemate and massive casualties or resource drain as they try to break the deadlock or force the enemy out of the land they claimed during the initial breakthrough."
"Yes sir. Have you given any thought to Operation Nosferatu sir?"
"I don't think the situation calls for it. But maybe later in the war, when they've worn each other down some more." The Orson Empire
Oceara
(We will declare war upon the Cybusian Empire and start launching nuclear weapons if we discover Cybusian tech in Orsonian Hands)
(It wouldnt be necessarily be our tech, the intention is for them to reverse-engineer them and use them to advance their own projects. Besides, we have plausible deniability. They could have used a shell company and bought them from Ryan Industries and RobCo. Proof of said purchase may be lost in the chaos of the Orsonian civil war. I want to get involved a bit more on Earth, and espionage. and subterfuge are the best to do that because I can't get involved militarily).
The plot as you described would be easy for our Intelligence Agencies to uncover. The intel leaks, Ryan tech showing up in Oceara.. All of it is too implausible to be a coincidence.
Particularly the Intel Leaks would set us off, as if Torchwood is directly feeding intel to our enemies -- our only recourse is WMDs to try and hit our enemies with so much force that no intel or torchwood trickery could save them.
Ah. Hmm. I’ll have to think of something else. Although, technically, Ryan isn’t Cybusian. He could legally sell to anyone without us being able to interfere unless we were to embargo you or Orson.
Operation Nosferatu involves shipping feral Drakul into the Orsonian and Ocearan nations through dummy companies. Since Drakul are pretty much everywhere, not just a Cybusian phenomenon, it could be blamed on the enemy.
There was a number of earth outbreaks in 2020 already, so we'd probably think it would be a flare up of that earlier outbreak if the outbreak occurred in roughly the same area in Western Africa.
While the Orsonians would know that we have samples of the actual infectious agent from that outbreak in our territory, they have enough spies in our territory to know we aren't responsible for things on their end as a very large number of their spies would've raised the alarm at least a full two weeks before we could launch a bio-attack as we currently have no delivery platforms and would need to build them.
Coincidentally, if we did think the Orsonians did it -- we'd actually hit them with drakul virus laden missiles back (after building the missiles of course)
Either way, that would work out well for us. But we’d have to find a cover for the Orsonian outbreak as well. Or do something else. Either way, my goal is to try to make you both use more resources, inflict more casualties, and gradually be worn down. After all, we regard you both as possible threats to the Empire to be squashed or manipulated in whatever way we can.
Some SIC: The CIA,SCIS, and DGSE have delivered a joint report to President Moon that went over the threats to the security of the region and the nation. It also recommended some new policies and priorities. It also had a new part about foreign entities. Here is one part of the foreign entities issue," The potential rise of the Ocearan-Wagian Alliance poses the greatest geopolitical threat to the status of TC. While they are like-minded nations, their eventual joint rise will force TC to re-assess certain policy priorities. Currently, TC uses its economic clout and its neutral foreign policy to push its international agenda. We believe with the eventual fall of Turner, Orson will cease to an international superpower by 2027. They have gone too long without a civil war. Their void will be filled by the Wagians-Ocearan Aillance and may reveal the more combative side of those nations. We have already detected an increase in Ocearan digital spying and their spy presence has increased.
We recommend the following policy actions: There will never be war with any of the associated parties and we can't stop their rise. But, that doesn't mean we shouldn't take steps to combat it.
Increasing the Space R&D Budget
Modernizing Nuclear Weapons that are present in Tierra Del Fuego
Working with Mossad on increasing human intelligence gathering in Oceara. Mossad has already seen success with Santa Catalina, Central Plaza, and Berlin ops.
Work with MI5,NSA, and OSCT on releasing Stuxnet 2.0 and increasing cyber defense.
Increase TIA contacts with Imperial Brotherhood and Orsonian Opposition Leaders.
Oceara, The Orson Empire, and Cybus1
Now that would be a complete disaster if that were discovered. Considering our commanders tend to favor preemptive strikes and whatnot.
Interesting. What are y’all doin in Berlin and Santa Catalina?
It's a leftover from the Cold War like the missile silos in the Midwest. Modernizing them is a safer choice than leaving them in their cold war state. But, they aren't connected to the internet or any intranet. They can't be hacked. It also would serve as an effective deterrent. Plus they would be harder to take out since they are in mountains.
Just doing what any intelligence agency does. It shouldn't be shocking that a foreign intel agency is active is in cities with international or regional importance. The presence in Santa Catalina is mainly for human and digital intel.Berlin is similar but has been used for assassinations,poltical operations, or Drakul related incidents,
Drakul related incidents? The Eichhorsts live in Berlin, but they don’t feed on people unless Torchwood gives them permission.
Were these assassinations of Cybusian nationals? Or foreigners in business in Berlin.
Post self-deleted by Timmy City.
Hmm. Assassinating our people on our own soil...
If this gets discovered (if it hasn’t already and Torchwood is just keeping it hidden) it comes to public attention, there will an immediate souring of relations, and maybe even war. At the very minimum, anti-Timmy sentiment would rise, and some Mercerists in Timmy may commit acts of terror.
Again, we are discussing this from an OOC point of view. So anything that is said can't be used for IC gain.
With that being said, most of those that have been assassinated (like a rogue nuclear scientist who wanted to work for a terrorist organization) would have been targets Torchwood would have turned a blind eye to. But, even though Torchwood is advanced even they have weaknesses.
I always operate on the assumption that nations have a certain amount of secrecy that even our most advanced personnel or tech couldn't find.
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