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What am I supposed to say about this?!

All Achurans are to be aware that there is no immediate threat to their safety and that they should continue to visit the Achuran Missionary Citadel and bring their most powerful magickal wards and incantations in lieu of monetary donations.

It's really hard for me to know what to say about this.

In absolute terms, I should maybe be happy. The death rate seems likely to be lower than Mr. Nauplius's usual projects, especially if he's only killing people when he actually has visitors.

On the other hand, the vast majority of living Achura, including my whole clan and almost my entire sect, can look into the sky and see a literal murder temple in orbit over our home.

I really never expected to do worse to that planet than I already had. I've been a murderer, there-- a kinslayer and pirate, a curse on my family. Those are all private shames, though. This one is so horribly public.

... and it's largely there because of me. I know Mr. Nauplius has been interested in other Achura, but the person he describes in his "tragedy" is too close a match. It's me. I brought this thing into Achur skies.

And what will happen when it's destroyed? I understand it's in low orbit.... Are there defenses enough to stop falling debris?

I shouldn't be sorry. I shouldn't regret mitigating harm. ... only, almost my entire faith is at the bottom of that gravity well. I exiled myself from Achura over a single death; how many more might I be about to cause?

You might consider taking some sniping lessons from Miz, Ms. Tsukiyo.

An endless cycle of construction and decommissioning may be preferable to an endless cycle of construction and destruction, though?

Either one just encourages him to do it again. You're giving him no reason not to continue his pattern of murder-for-attention. Congratulations, you're enablers. And really, given the lengths to which people go to justify being his enablers while simultaneously patting themselves on the back, it's clearly a co-dependent relationship.

"I have made you all react to me! I am so important!" meets "We stopped him again! Yay, something we did matters!"

And then what? Wait a month until he buys a new one? No no! Now we're convincing him to just take it down! He can go buy more slaves and set up shop in Dodixie next! And then everyone can run over there and spend a week getting all outraged. While the thing anchors, you can make your dire declarations of not tolerating his crap anymore. You can run up your utterly meaningless war declarations that won't take effect in time for the 15-minute vulnerability timer, so he's perfectly safe for a week. Longer, if he's smart and schedules the vulnerability timer for around 0700 or so. After all, which among you is going to alarm-clock that, since we can all see your activity patterns?

So he'll keep you chasing your own tails, and soaking up the attention, and you can keep on posturing until he's 'defeated' by agreeing to pull down his citadel. And then as soon as the war-decs expire, he sets it up again and goes to buy new slaves.

But keep on congratulating yourselves for doing nothing but encouraging him. After all, you wouldn't want to not be able to posture and preen right alongside him, right?

Tell you what: why don't you guys streamline the process, and just hang onto the slaves for him so you can trade them back once the citadel's down. You don't have to tell anyone. And at least then you're limiting the risk to one group of slaves, instead of cycling through fifty times that number.

But they don't really want to stop him, do they? For once, I think you've actually hit it right on the head.

This is just as much of a game to them as it is to him. Endangering peoples' lives, destroying space stations if they don't get their way... it's all just for 'fun'. So, you got me on this one, Morgana: they're not his enablers.

They're his partners.

Please show the historical reference that you method works. Instead lecturing.

Otherwise sowing the seeds divisiveness may have you viewed as his partner.

It is you who must surrender. Surrender your attempts to interfere with the salvation of the Achuran people.

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Your words here prove that I was right to deny you an initiation into the Faith. You apparently consider the Blood Liturgy to be some sort of sex magickal rite. It is not.

Disgusting perverse witch.

... that literally everyone who's ever dealt with Napkins already knew...

Nice try, but again, context matters. There is a difference between 'OH MY GOD EVERYONE LOOK I FOUND OUT THIS THING!!!!' and 'You all know this already, why are you repeating the same behavior and acting like it will change anything?'

It felt a whole lot less presenting questions and opinion and more you snickering on the sidelines crunching popcorn while you find ways to score GalNet points against various folk involved. It's obvious the only skin in this entire affiar you have is entertainment, and that's fine I guess, but trying to get pseudo intellectual on us just makes you look foolish.