05-14-2011, 10:26 PM
ENTRY TWENTY-NINE
Let us examine closer the propaganda that pours forth in ever-increasing volumes from the Consortium.
Consider, galactic friends, the following Consortium assertion:
Multiple combats? Indeed, but out of the three starships engaged by Darkseid's forces, two of them were transports. Unarmed transports. There haven't been multiple combats between multiple Consortium and Apokoliptian warships. Only one, the battle where the AntiVirus, acting on direct orders from the highest echelons of the Consortium government, fired on an Apokoliptian vessel. The Apokoliptian ship returned fire, in self defense.
Having initiated hostile military action, the Consortium now seeks to cry foul. If they did not want their star vessels to be fired upon, then why did they take it upon themselves to initiate combat with AntiVirus?
Attempting to deceive the galaxy at large, by portraying Apokoliptian military prowess as vastly advanced above Consortium military technology, without emphasizing that two of the three vessels cited in support of their assessment of technology differences were not warships (which is relevant, to obtain an honest assessment of comparative military technology), only serves to demonstrate the extremes to which the Consortium will go, in its vain bid to portray itself in a positive light.
With regard to hijacking a ship, I did take note of it, during one of my numerous prior attempts to gain a better understanding of the rules and mechanics of this game. This portion of the rules isn't as confusing as some of the other parts that I have encountered since I first started playing this game.
Does anyone really and truly believe that the Consortium would not have objected, had I dispatched a colonizer-type freighter to the sector in question, and commenced colonization efforts? How quickly and efficiently the Consortium processes its lies for propaganda purposes!
Let us examine closer the propaganda that pours forth in ever-increasing volumes from the Consortium.
Consider, galactic friends, the following Consortium assertion:
(05-10-2011, 02:53 PM)ixnay Wrote: 2. Darkseid is undefeated in multiple combats, suggesting superior military tech.
Multiple combats? Indeed, but out of the three starships engaged by Darkseid's forces, two of them were transports. Unarmed transports. There haven't been multiple combats between multiple Consortium and Apokoliptian warships. Only one, the battle where the AntiVirus, acting on direct orders from the highest echelons of the Consortium government, fired on an Apokoliptian vessel. The Apokoliptian ship returned fire, in self defense.
Having initiated hostile military action, the Consortium now seeks to cry foul. If they did not want their star vessels to be fired upon, then why did they take it upon themselves to initiate combat with AntiVirus?
Attempting to deceive the galaxy at large, by portraying Apokoliptian military prowess as vastly advanced above Consortium military technology, without emphasizing that two of the three vessels cited in support of their assessment of technology differences were not warships (which is relevant, to obtain an honest assessment of comparative military technology), only serves to demonstrate the extremes to which the Consortium will go, in its vain bid to portray itself in a positive light.
With regard to hijacking a ship, I did take note of it, during one of my numerous prior attempts to gain a better understanding of the rules and mechanics of this game. This portion of the rules isn't as confusing as some of the other parts that I have encountered since I first started playing this game.
(05-14-2011, 01:02 PM)ixnay Wrote: We take a moment now to drop out of character...
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Hahahahahahaha! Darkseid's logic is as tortured as the now-deceased crew of the Tilkatian colonizer were, no doubt, just prior to their demise!
This little colony we had was an insignificant little presence in a nothing-burger star system. Had Darkseid come in with his own colonizer and demanded a planet, I would have made no strenuous objection. I will even go so far as to say that if he had returned with a warship with at least a small colonizer-type freighter to lend at least a stamp of legitimacy to establishing a military presence there, I would have been unable to justify a deep-space attack.
Does anyone really and truly believe that the Consortium would not have objected, had I dispatched a colonizer-type freighter to the sector in question, and commenced colonization efforts? How quickly and efficiently the Consortium processes its lies for propaganda purposes!