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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
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Posted - 2013.01.29 15:10:00 -
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All the alarm and hair-tearing over the words "orbital bombardment".
Most orbital strikes (not all, but the majority) are precision firepower launched from small weaponry. Frigate and destroyer grade. a 150mm railgun loaded with tactical orbit-to-ground ammunition produces a smaller bang than some of the artillery used in warfare on the homeworld by our pre-warp ancestors. Tactical EMP rounds won't even damage any structures they hit.
Now, if there were dual 1000mm railguns being aimed down the gravity well, THEN the alarm and concern about civilian casualties would be justified. Those things can trigger tectonic events. But until I hear that the firepower being used is bigger than, say, 250mm, I see no reason to believe that these orbital strikes are any more harmful than the ones that our cousins the new soldiers are asking us to provide.
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
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Posted - 2013.01.29 15:56:00 -
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Yes, yes, we're all very impressed by your ability to sneer at people, Soter...
An in-character blog and a video:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
659
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Posted - 2013.01.29 16:01:00 -
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Uka hikiin, suuolo?*
Yes, they're doing their job. I'm not sure what need there is for all this venom.
* (AUTOTRANS: "You as well, my friend?")
An in-character blog and a video:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
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Posted - 2013.01.29 16:20:00 -
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merely being on a populated world does not mean that the fighting is in populated areas. You forget that the State actually has quite a low population density dirtside - the largest part of our citizens live in space, and the largest part of our planetary colonists live in cities. It's a known fact that Guristas assets, for instance, prefer to operate from wilderness footholds in areas not claimed by any of the megas.
Besides, as was mentioned before, civilian casualties tend to lead to failures of the press blackout. The fact that we're still in the dark suggests to me that if there have been civilian casualties, they've been too few to note.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
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Posted - 2013.01.29 16:28:00 -
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You're exhibiting negativity bias. CONCORD and the DED do their jobs perfectly most days. No organisation is infallible, however, and the few failures we've seen don't outweigh the smooth running that we don't ever see because smooth running is not newsworthy.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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