Originally by: bsspewer

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Originally by: Black Kestrel

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Galaxion, a few updates to your commentary of our fight with THE ROCK are needed:

1) Portabello's shield transfer drones were flown and were orbiting the mancitore, but did not actually repair shield. The same is true for the shield transfer module in that it did not perform its function despite repeated activation attempts. The reason for this glitch is unknown considering his missile launchers were operational, but the fact remains that the modules did not activate properly, and it was not the fault of the pilot.

2) Thaard Bof't, in his vagabond, found himself unable to change his ship's path of travel and inadvertently drifted into webifier range, which can be said to have been the primary cause of his being popped so early. Again the reason is unknown, and again this does not change the reality that an unforseen, unpredictable and non-equitable error occurred resulting in THE ROCK having a hefty advantage over NBSI by default.

3) It is also worth mentioning that the Rattlesnake was doing very well for itself even after the Manticore and the Vagabond were gone. Given a few more cap charges who knows what would have happened, and that is the reason for the complaint; the uncertainty of the outcome if the errors had not occurred.

The extreme closeness of the fight, even considering the error, instills reasonable, even cosiderable, doubt as to what the outcome would have been if everything had worked as it was supposed to. This fact alone should prompt a rematch. LeMonde was willing to grant us one, but refused to give both sides back their lost equipment and craft, and we in turn refused to pay for a problem that was in no way our fault or our doing, and THE ROCK should not be expected to do so either.

All due credit to the pilots from THE ROCK is to be given; their tactics were executed as well as they could have hoped (as far as I can tell anyway), and they get to progress to the next round. My only wish is that in such a decisive match, more effort is given and more influence is brought to bear to ensure as perfectly equitable conditions and outcomes as is humanly possible. I believe more could have and should have been done to rectify this situation, and I would hope that THE ROCK alliance would rather see our match conducted properly and with equitable conditions for both sides, as there is little pride to be had in gliding through to victory on the wings of an uncontrollable game error.

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Please ppl, don't start another "hanging chads" issue here!! You lost, and it might not have been what YOU wanted, but it's what happened. Don't ruin this thread by trying to cause galaxion to become bias'ed. He's doing an excellant job being independant and neutral, even when BOB fights. That makes it so much more entertaining because I don't have to wade through crap of "we are uber, we lagged" remarks.

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