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EVE-Online RP Discussion and Resources => CCP Public Library => Topic started by: Morwen Lagann on 02 May 2013, 10:44
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The latest chronicle, written by CCP Falcon, details a number of behind-the-scenes events surrounding the battle for Caldari Prime. You can read it here (http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Falling_Skies_%28Chronicle%29).
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Yanala nnnoooooo=
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“The Navy can move as soon as they have approval, but the FEDCAFT story we pushed to the media will only hold for so long."
Confirmation that the "naval exercises" were definitely not exercises.
“Ranchel? Blaque. Phase two of Operation Highlander is go. Deploy at your discretion.”
Aaand confirmation that setting the stage for an attack was orchestrated by the Black Eagles from the start. The actual naval attack was not a reaction, it was phase two of the operation.
Black Eagles are awesome.
Henette's eyes were torn away from the weapon as one of the bald men disrobed beside the exposed control interface for the array, revealing an almost organic looking black dropsuit that shimmered slickly as if wet. The soldier began to watch with intrigue when the other hairless figure slipped a wiring harness from within his coat. It almost seemed to come alive, shimmering with fiber optic activity as experienced hands connected it to one of the access ports beneath the control interface.
Another huge flash lit up the sky and then a second as two more capital-class vessels succumbed to the ocean of destruction overhead, tens of thousands of crew vaporized with them. Henette recoiled slightly when he saw the bald-headed man peel back a layer of synthetic skin covering a neural jack at the base of his neck. It was then that he noticed the lettering stenciled between the capsuleer's shoulder blades.
The loose cable hung down over the identifying mark of the Equipment Certification and Anomaly Investigations Division – a sub division of the Interstellar Services Department, which in turn belonged to CONCORD. The second of the two capsuleers showed no emotion, his voice flat and direct. Their features were almost completely neutral, as if stripped away purposely with only the slightest hint of Gallente ethnicity. Even their accents were neutral.
“Don’t be concerned about that. We’re not with ECAID on this one. You can consider us freelance.”
The capsuleer connected to the platform closed his eyes, his voice quiet as the rest of the troops set up a defensive perimeter. As he spoke, the locked control interface above his head lit up and a set of three enormous turrets across the open ground burst into life, their armored shields retracting, twin barrels extending and lifting skyward.
“I can unlock the console, but if you read me the positioning co-ords this will be much faster.”
His eyes remained closed as Henette called over his commander. Vrie took up vigil beside the capsuleer and rested a hand on his back beneath the tangle of wiring.
“What do you need?”
“Positioning data.”
“One seven. Zero Three. Seven Six. Inclination is seven niner point three two degrees. I hope these numbers are still good.” was the reply from Vrie.
The capsuleer repeated the numbers in a soft mumble, a frown of concentration creasing his features. The turrets across the facility immediately repositioned themselves, aiming up toward the blanket of destruction above the cloud line.
“Dual 1000mm coils active. Siege hardware enabled. Systems ready to fire on your mark.”
The response from Vrie was a simple “Do it.”
He nodded, the flickering tangle of fiber cables swaying like a bio-luminescent ponytail. The two capsuleers raised their hands to their ears, and in the first display of emotion they smiled at each other as the turrets fired.
Anslo will like this one. Capsuleers engaged in groundside support during a combat operation. Specifically, seeming to use their neural implants to interface directly with computer programs for the purpose of hacking and controlling them.
Also, canon showing of the black podsuit.
“There were seven instances when the order was given to fire. Fleet telemetry examined by the Caldari Providence Directorate also shows that while charged, Oblivion was armed on none of these occasions. This is despite contradictory statements made over fleet comms by you, Admiral. How do you explain this?” The growing irritation in his voice began to seep through with the question.
“Micromanagement of a fleet engaged against over a thousand hostiles leaves room for mistakes to be made, Sir. In eight decades of piloting for the Caldari Navy, I have learned to minimize the risk of human error. Arming the weapon increases the risk of accidental deployment.”
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“Sir, do you honestly think that unleashing the full capability of the Shiigeru would have had any less effect than what you see behind you? She was capable of vaporizing a capital ship with a single shot. Her entire purpose was to destroy anything that posed a threat to her. Firing on the surface of our home world would have caused infinitely more damage. I suggest that you leave the theorycrafting of military tactics to those of us who have served in our armed forces for over half a century.”
Yanala deliberately did not fire on the planet. Her comments over Local were falsified.
“By drinking, I retain my honor. I also make the choice to punish myself for the shame I have allowed you to bring upon the name of my family. That is the difference between the two of us. I will retain my honor, and in time the truth will be known that I refused to fire on my home world after being ordered to do so at the whim of an incompetent commander who is out of his depth.
“For the first time in a half decade, I can see clearly now. For the time being, you may sit in the ivory tower that your Provist thugs have constructed. In the end, it will be torn from beneath you by the very people you seek to subjugate in order to cling to your weakening grip on power.
“You may think yourself intelligent enough to be able to read the people, but you are wrong. The State’s capsuleer loyalists are already beginning to move against Provist policies. How long do you think it will take for the people to do the same?”
Spoken like a true Caldari, and she killed herself. Awesome.
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/sniff
Good read, long read, best read.
I guess I was wrong on the whole firing thing. But I don't think Grid will ever know that (not unless Yanala somehow survives the Tea, something I highly doubt).
Not sure if there will be any implications due to the presence of ECAID guys (though that becoming public knowledge is not likely anyway.) I'm sure the Caldari wouldn't be happy to see agents under CONCORD's jurisdiction directly engaging their forces.
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In this chron: CCP confirms DED helped the Gallente. I expect we'll see someone claiming to know this at some point.
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In this chron: CCP confirms DED helped the Gallente. I expect we'll see someone claiming to know this at some point.
I don't see anything in the chron about the DED. ISD, yes - there are two ECAID pilots (aka, bughunters) doing it as freelancers, which is likely a reference to the number of CCP volunteers who helped prepare and put on the event.
But nobody from the DED got involved from what I could see.
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In this chron: CCP confirms DED helped the Gallente. I expect we'll see someone claiming to know this at some point.
I don't see anything in the chron about the DED. ISD, yes - there are two ECAID pilots (aka, bughunters) doing it as freelancers, which is likely a reference to the number of CCP volunteers who helped prepare and put on the event.
But nobody from the DED got involved from what I could see.
What Morwen said more or less. The only DED involvement was when Brig. Gen. Odo got DDed by Yanala and them suspect flagging everyone in system.
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Admittedly that was a mistype by me. Meant ISD. /o\
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I think ISD was at one point displayed as being half-rogue anyway.
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Sweet.
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Yanala deliberately did not fire on the planet. Her comments over Local were falsified.
We will never know this IC unless something changes to reflect this in an IC manner. Cronicles are not IC info, sometimes sadly.
Yanala was awesome, exactly the kind of Caldari that my main toon respects and exactly the kind of behavior that he misses. He would have offered her the best of respect, sadly her comments in local has destroyed her reputation. Much the same as Noir, unless something changes she will never get the reverence she deserves by my characters. :cry:
Also, fuck you Heth. There will be a cron one day where you die or are disposed of.
I will enjoy it.
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Yanala deliberately did not fire on the planet. Her comments over Local were falsified.
We will never know this IC unless something changes to reflect this in an IC manner. Cronicles are not IC info, sometimes sadly.
Yanala was awesome, exactly the kind of Caldari that my main toon respects and exactly the kind of behavior that he misses. He would have offered her the best of respect, sadly her comments in local has destroyed her reputation. Much the same as Noir, unless something changes she will never get the reverence she deserves by my characters. :cry:
Also, fuck you Heth. There will be a cron one day where you die or are disposed of.
I will enjoy it.
Not if I don't get to slam an antimatter charge into his face first.
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Yanala deliberately did not fire on the planet. Her comments over Local were falsified.
We will never know this IC unless something changes to reflect this in an IC manner. Cronicles are not IC info, sometimes sadly.
Yep. Although a couple of us have already theorized it IC.
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They have, many have also theorized Noir's actions as that of another, but again we simply don't know it IC, and now there are two NPC's whose legacy is a false, black reputation. EVE being grimdark and all, this is to be expected, but still somewhat sad.
The chronicle itself was completely awesome though, and an enjoyable read with great flow, remaining truthful to characters as portrayed earlier. THIS is what proper EVE stories should look like, being awesome, enjoyable, enriching or possible and respecting setting and characters. I'm sure it has a few flaws and maybe a typo or two, but I've not seen anything obvious so far and I'm not going to dissect it to find out.
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Also, since judging by mail I wasn't being clear enough earlier apparently, I was being facetious about the knowing-about-ISD stuff.
Anyhow, the real interesting thing here for me was how clear it was made that DUSTies enjoy certain advantages beyond their immortality - a level of suit/soldier integration apparently not commonly available to the footsoldiers of the Big 4, and perhaps only widely seen thus far in Cyberknights or True Slaves.
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There's a lot here that seems aspirational, rather than a reflection of current game realities. Having played DUST kind of a lot, the gameplay doesn't lend itself all that deeply to notions of superhuman awesome, especially where reflexes and such are concerned (though DUST troops can turn and reverse momentum on an inertia-dampened dime, so there is that).
Even sniper scopes don't get the kind of zoomed precision the story talks about (unless you're using the legendarily horrific officer Thale's "sniper rifle" [read: ultra-zoomed, extreme range howitzer]).
Also: there are several things (atmospheric fighters, to name one) mentioned in the story that are, as of yet, wholly unavailable in game. I'm also hoping we're not going to need to bring capsuleers into combat zones in order to get planetary defense cannons working.
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I guess I was wrong on the whole firing thing. But I don't think Grid will ever know that (not unless Yanala somehow survives the Tea, something I highly doubt).
I would not be to sure about it. I get the impression that Admiral Mininela Erinen would very much like to get the truth out.
I will retain my honor, and in time the truth will be known
-Admiral Visera Yanala
Edit: Anyway, it's nice to know OOC too that Ché was right about her being the right person for the job.
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Doesn't change the fact that she was a raging Provist before. A deathbed conversion does not redeem ones misdeeds.
That being said, it was nice to see. And considering Erinen is the CINC of the Navy and reports to the CEP...everyone important knows, it seems easy to say.
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Doesn't change the fact that she was a raging Provist before. A deathbed conversion does not redeem ones misdeeds.
That being said, it was nice to see. And considering Erinen is the CINC of the Navy and reports to the CEP...everyone important knows, it seems easy to say.
Strangely enough, I can't recall that. Are you sure?
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Can't recall what? That she was a Provist? I was having an argument with her on the IGS for a few days, so...yes. :)
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Public faces. Can't have the admiral in charge of the flagship disobeying the ideas of the great Tibus Heth in public, can we? After all we know OOC she lied about spooling up the doomsday and never intended to fire it.
Or maybe she was both a provist and a would-be genocide doer. Regardless as far as all our toons know IC she was a provist and DID try to obliterate the planet.
I'm guessing plenty of our toons will be mighty surprised if we ever learn the truth. I know mine will.
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Even if she was a Provist, that doesn't mean she didn't have the State's interests at heart. RPers sadly haven't jumped on the opportunity (and the devs haven't really pushed that angle, either, outside of Yanala), but there are good reasons for why someone might support the Provist ideals. Heth has just run it into the ground, which Yanala finally realized.
In fact, looking over the previous posts Yanala made on IGS, she didn't say anything wrong at all, really. Her comments were focused on solidarity of the State's people to face down threats to the State, in opposition to all the revolutionary chest beating. At least from what I see, she served more as a convenient target for people's hatred of the Provists than anything else.
Blegh. I still need to get my "disenfranchised Provist" character off the ground. It'd be fun to play out IC. Meh, alts.
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If Sakura could read this article, I guarantee you she'd be smug as hell right about now. Mostly glaring at the old bird with an "I told you so" expression... but noooo, no one in the State ever listens to the rogue Civire. Until it's too late, that is. :lol:
OOC, not a bad article. Long, but has a lot of information in it, so good on Falcon & friends for more info~.
Who's the waste of biomass now, Admiral?
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I liked it quite a lot. Maybe it weighs too heavily on the DUST side of the balance, but it's easy to understand that they have much less fiction and it has to be made up. Maybe it was me, btu it kinda gave the sensation that the Gallente won the ground battle as well, when they did not.
And it was the logical/forseeable story, but in this case I'm saying that as a virtue, I'm way too tired of "unexpected plot twists" and "Deus Ex Machina's" putting everything upside down. It's very nice that, for once, things happened as humans would make them happen, and explanations given on IGS were actually acurate because nothing "impossible" happened. I hope we get more of this.
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Heth has just run it into the ground, which Yanala finally realized.
Quite correct.
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In an odd sort of way, I'm quite grateful to Diana Kim for going gung-ho for fascist cheerleader-dom. Somebody needed to, and sadly that line of RP goes so counter to almost everybody's every (post-WWII) instinct that it can be quite difficult to find somebody to take the job.
That said, I'm also grateful that Tibus Heth doesn't look like he's going to succeed in reforging the Caldari in the image of the Helghast, even if Caldari Prime did look an awful lot like some of the more rural bits of Helghan when we visited it in DUST. I'd always envisioned Caldari Prime as a snowball of a world where you rushed to get your crops planted as soon as the frost in the fields thawed enough for you to plow. I suppose that doesn't prevent having a Gobi Desert analog, though.
So, yes. No space Nazis as primary antagonists, please. We can have our characters living in interesting times without introducing something so unsubtle as a stable fascist dictatorship.
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Yanala nnnoooooo=
Wouldn't it be something if she survived the tea maker...
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Well. I understand she's not in Doomheim, so. :)
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Yanala nnnoooooo=
Wouldn't it be something if she survived the tea maker...
Something silly, yes.
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She will rise from her gurney with a Terran Superweapon.
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She will rise from her gurney with a Terran Superweapon.
I would pay for that novel...
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There's one they fear...
In their State, she is Yanala... DRAGONBORN!
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She will rise from her gurney with a Terran Superweapon.
There's one they fear...
In their State, she is Yanala... DRAGONBORN!
And the cluster will tremble as it learns the Terran translation of "For The State" -- FUS RO DAH!
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She will rise from her gurney with a Terran Superweapon.
There's one they fear...
In their State, she is Yanala... DRAGONBORN!
And the cluster will tremble as it learns the Terran translation of "For The State" -- FUS RO DAH!
You two, please take your knee injuries and arrows and vacate the premises.
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You sound bitter, man. Did someone steal your sweetroll?
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Nah, but I'd feel a whole lot better with a belly full of mead.
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Nah, but I'd feel a whole lot better with a belly full of mead.
A Vincent, I wish I'd caught up with you at FanFest....
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Yanala deliberately did not fire on the planet. Her comments over Local were falsified.
We will never know this IC unless something changes to reflect this in an IC manner. Cronicles are not IC info, sometimes sadly.
Yanala was awesome, exactly the kind of Caldari that my main toon respects and exactly the kind of behavior that he misses. He would have offered her the best of respect, sadly her comments in local has destroyed her reputation. Much the same as Noir, unless something changes she will never get the reverence she deserves by my characters. :cry:
Also, fuck you Heth. There will be a cron one day where you die or are disposed of.
I will enjoy it.
Pieter has said publicly and privately that there was sufficient proof that Yanala TALKED about firing the Oblivion but never did - despite having sufficient time to do so.
Also, three living people witnessed Yanala's death speech. Word WILL get out.
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Also, three living people witnessed Yanala's death speech. Word WILL get out.
Not through us, though. Hopefully people will have the sense to wait for news articles or event actors to reveal that information.
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Nah, but I'd feel a whole lot better with a belly full of mead.
A Vincent, I wish I'd caught up with you at FanFest....
How the hell can you miss him? He's a Finnish giant!
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Nah, but I'd feel a whole lot better with a belly full of mead.
A Vincent, I wish I'd caught up with you at FanFest....
How the hell can you miss him? He's a Finnish giant!
(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130402143559/gameofthrones/images/b/bf/Giant_working_S3_Ep1.jpg)