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EVE-Online RP Discussion and Resources => CCP Public Library => Topic started by: kalaratiri on 24 Jan 2012, 11:07
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http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Enemies_Closer_(Chronicle) (http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Enemies_Closer_(Chronicle))
Haven't read it yet, and it doesn't seem to be in the main chronicles section yet, but here it is, Enemies Closer.
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For those who have read it.
[spoiler]Isn't Blaque a capsuleer? I'm pretty sure Louella has one of his clone corpses in her possession. Makes an assassination pretty pointless no?[/spoiler]
Otherwise, great read. Gal/Cal stuff is always fun to read.
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Unreadable. Removed?
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Unreadable. Removed?
No, the Link is missing the ")" at the end.
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Unreadable. Removed?
The closed bracket is missing from the link for some odd reason. Try http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Enemies_Closer_(Chronicle) (http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Enemies_Closer_(Chronicle))
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huh.. No idea how that happened. Fixed.
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And there was much grimdark.
I am hoping they go somewhere with some of the revelations in this chronicle, though, and not just leave them hanging as one of those "well, who can we finger as having mysterious connections to advance our plot today" things.
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I liked this one. 8)
However, I'm not clear on why the hit was called off.
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I liked this one. 8)
However, I'm not clear on why the hit was called off.
Well, I've been thinking about this one a bit actually.
Assuming that Blaque is a capsuleer (or has otherwise taken advantage of softscan technology), then yes, the shooting would not permanently end him, merely put him a few weeks out of the loop at best and annoy him at worst. Whichever it is, it's a sure bet it would send a serious and worrying message to the Federation - the State would be saying "We can deposit agents carrying significant weaponry into your capital cities and assassinate your to people." That's a scary concept, even if it might not actually even be that hard on Blaque himsel.
However, when the possibility that Blaque wields significant influence in CONCORD - enough to more or less singlehandedly lead the charge to push a major bill through - one must also consider that even if merely inconvenienced, Blaque is likely to be seriously pissed by any assassinations, and might use his not-insignificant influence at CONCORD to squeeze the State further. Hence, figuring out how to deal with that takes precedence over immediately killing Blaque.
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Cael: Unless Blaque being a capsuleer is something that came up in Templar One, I think you're confusing him for Jacus Roden.
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Cael: Unless Blaque being a capsuleer is something that came up in Templar One, I think you're confusing him for Jacus Roden.
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1302967
[spoiler](http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/1004/blaquewot.png)[/spoiler]
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:roll:
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Cael: Unless Blaque being a capsuleer is something that came up in Templar One, I think you're confusing him for Jacus Roden.
The news never lies (http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1302967). ;)
That said, I've seen it mentioned many times that he was in fact a capsuleer (https://gate.eveonline.com/Profile/Mentas%20Blaque._). However, I do not have first hand confirmation of this. It does bring up some questions and answers many more if he is not.
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Cael: Unless Blaque being a capsuleer is something that came up in Templar One, I think you're confusing him for Jacus Roden.
They both are, see Lou's link.
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Some nub who named his char 'Mentas Blaque' to prove how lax CCP are about blocking PF namespace, does not make Mentas Blaque a capsuleer.
Jeez people.
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In this wide, wide universe with untold billions of people on thousands of worlds, names will get used more than once. You will have multiple Mentas Blaques throughout the Federation.
A corpse tagged with a name doesn't prove much of anything, not without further evidence.
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Some nub who named his char 'Mentas Blaque' to prove how lax CCP are about blocking PF namespace, does not make Mentas Blaque a capsuleer.
Jeez people.
it does make it funny though.
can make comments about secret societies subverting democratically elected Federation persons and so on.
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Some nub who named his char 'Mentas Blaque' to prove how lax CCP are about blocking PF namespace, does not make Mentas Blaque a capsuleer.
Jeez people.
Both Mentas Blaque and Mentas Blaque. lead to the same character in Senate. First time Lou linked that I doublechecked the name to see if it was a random alt character of someone.
It's not the same as the guy walking around with Shakor's name.
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I liked this one. 8)
However, I'm not clear on why the hit was called off.
As tenuous a reason as it is, it's bluntly stated in the chronicle. :bash:
"Sir, we have to abort. We can't go through with this if we don't know who his contacts are, let alone what his intentions are with the capsule contingent."
I happen to think it's a BS reason, but meh. Mentas Blaque now apparently has his hand in more pies than the Broker's collective clones, so :psyccp:
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Didn't like the chronicle much, tbh.
[spoiler]So let me get this right; The PF points out how idiotically thorough the SDII is in recruiting people they expect to be able to trust, and yet while some do ditch their organization and go 'public' (as seen in the Black Eagles chronicle) the initial selection process is pretty tight - and despite this they managed to recruit a man who left a Caldari wife and kid in the State. Did they just... HOPE that this would not eventually create some conflicting loyalty issues for him? None bothered with over-sight so he could just go off and disappear to talk to a Caldari man in the middle of their space about betraying them and defecting?
Then there is that whole justification speech for their betrayal of the man "you pig you left a good CALDARI woman alone in the State with a HALF-GALLENTE child to be treated like shit and vilified by her perfectly-fine xenophobic Caldari neighbors, how dare you" /smack. Let's not bother to talk about the reasons WHY she was treated that badly to begin with, questioning the policies of our Great Leader is not allowed.
It's to be expected from an OOC stand-point, but even if I saw the whole 'betraying the defector' thing coming from the start it's still so damn annoying to read because it reinforces the self-justifying blame-the-fed-for-all-ills p.o.w Heth enforces and I'm sick and tired of that.[/spoiler]