TBH, I thought the article was believable and made sense, it's something that likely would have happened. I don't think the State would just have let the system sit in ruin. It's bad for profits. Federation may have gone "Eh, local authorities problem, need to save moneys" or whatever.
Instead, because of the one mention of "Caldari Navy carrying out offensive operations in the Federation", the 2nd reply decides to focus on an ad hominem attack on the OP. It's pretty well clear that the factional navies are involved in FW, and it was the Caldari Navy that occupied Placid et al back in 2009 etc. The rest of the article is ignored.
And considering that Aicar's articles before were all quite anti-Caldari, thought it would have been redeeming somewhat. Meanwhile, the other faux-Scope articles by Aicar are completely ignored by the "This never happened" brigade.
In fact, with the other ones, people have decided to play along. I guess it's because Abraxas has stated that there will be no more roleplayed news items, so we'll have to rely on these faux-Scope posts and ANN.
First off, it's pretty well clear that Factional Navies are
not involved in faction warfare and it was
not the Caldari Navy that occupied Placid. The whole premise behind FW is that CONCORD will unleash their wrath against the first empire that sends it's real Navy into the warzone. This will leave them, and CONCORD, too weak to protect themselves against the retaliation of the Empire they attacked.
This isn’t, as Saxon suggests, that this is a case me being upset because he’s RPing stuff that isn’t directly supported by PF. I think you are missing the subtle battle going on between our characters. He isn’t playing a reporter trying to report unbiased news, and I’m just bullying him and nit-picking over PF. He’s playing a member of the Dove party using the media as weapon against the Caldari and I’m a member of the old school patriot faction who is keenly aware of how his sort fight.
The character Aicar’s sole agenda is to convince people that the Caldari Navy is leading the offensive in Placid and that it’s having a negative effect on the Intaki locals. In order to get this message out, his tactic is to encapsulate this message inside larger articles. He recently started using ‘positive’ reports on the Caldari as a Trojan horse for his message. The important part to Aicar, and to my character is the CN in placid message.
The more often he can sneak this into a more sensationalist topic, the more people accept that it’s the truth. The more people accept it as fact, the more people view the Caldari as a monolithic entity possessing all the worst traits of the Provist faction and oppressive corporate culture. This leaves only the Federation there to protect the Intaki from these terrible people.
Hamish is part Intaki, and views the Federation as oppressing them and that the sort of thing Aicar is doing as one of the tools they do use to keep the Intaki under their thumb. He isn't going to let Aicar get away attacking the State and Intaki Independence movement just because he says something on that the surface appears to be positive for the Caldari.
If you don't like the way I RP, that's fine, but coming here and trying to convince every body my RP is wrong and I'm being a jerk isn't going to stop me for doing what I want.
