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SpartyMcFly Military Grade Shitposter from Not where he should be Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Get out of here, STALKER
Military Grade Shitposter
#63926: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:15:00 PM

Oliver: Very.

This is way cleaner than nearly anything I've seen the Militia use.

"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."
NeonMoon Since: Oct, 2012
#63927: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:19:46 PM

Leandros: You were part of a militia?

SpartyMcFly Military Grade Shitposter from Not where he should be Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Get out of here, STALKER
Military Grade Shitposter
#63928: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:23:07 PM

Oliver: -to Leandros- Was, yeah.

It's... a very long story.

"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."
NeonMoon Since: Oct, 2012
#63929: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:25:02 PM

Leandros: If it is too long to tell, I won't press.

SpartyMcFly Military Grade Shitposter from Not where he should be Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Get out of here, STALKER
Military Grade Shitposter
#63930: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:29:17 PM

Oliver: And... well, a source of personal shame.

Like I said, long story.

"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."
SpartyMcFly Military Grade Shitposter from Not where he should be Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Get out of here, STALKER
Military Grade Shitposter
#63932: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:32:56 PM

Oliver: Anti-corporate extremists, I'll have you know.

"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."
Raidouthe21st Cool Dude from Whacking trick-or-treating punks Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
Cool Dude
#63933: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:34:53 PM

-Asagi is now checking over the mechs in the hangar, just to get a look and see the mechs she helped select-

We Are Our Avatars Forever (Now on Discord by invitation, PM)
NeonMoon Since: Oct, 2012
#63934: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:35:48 PM

Leandros: Corporate?

-Thinks for a second, not being innately familiar with the word- like the Imperial Trading Company?

SpartyMcFly Military Grade Shitposter from Not where he should be Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Get out of here, STALKER
Military Grade Shitposter
#63935: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:36:08 PM

Oliver: Yeah.

But much, much scummier.

"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."
NeonMoon Since: Oct, 2012
Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist
#63937: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:38:20 PM

Phillip:-has found a place to read all these books-

PM box is Closed, Indefinitely Friend Code: 3368-4181-6850
Imca (Veteran)
#63938: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:39:58 PM

-Shindan listens to Oliver and Leo from above them-

SpartyMcFly Military Grade Shitposter from Not where he should be Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Get out of here, STALKER
Military Grade Shitposter
#63939: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:42:05 PM

Oliver: Effectively, they allotted an act that allowed their paid fighters to settle along frontier lands on the edge of our territory as recompense for participating in their frequent military actions.

They then proceeded to pull all support when it became too expensive to maintain resettlement, left the Frontier alone for several generations, and when they came back and saw that the people they had left behind were thriving, claimed eminent domain over the land and resources.

"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."
NeonMoon Since: Oct, 2012
#63940: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:43:17 PM

Leandros: Such a thing happened in my world, more or less. The ensuing war still has poems written of it today.

Imca (Veteran)
#63941: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:46:52 PM

Shindan: That sounds inefficient

SpartyMcFly Military Grade Shitposter from Not where he should be Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Get out of here, STALKER
Military Grade Shitposter
#63942: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:48:27 PM

Oliver: -to Leandros- We're still fighting that war.

I think the thing that really started pissing people off was when the IMC found massive resource deposits under the Martyr Colonies. I mean, there was still a lot of anger over local governments being subsumed by the IMC - sometimes because even though the transfer was peaceful that a lot of the governors seemed more concerned with profits than their citizenry, sometimes because the transfer wasn't peaceful, but the Martyr Colonies were really what stuck the firecracker up our asses.

-to Shindan- Inefficient?

edited 28th Feb '18 8:48:41 PM by SpartyMcFly

"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."
NeonMoon Since: Oct, 2012
#63943: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:48:33 PM

Leandros: Natural beings are rarely efficient, friend.

-To Oliver- and to open warfare?

edited 28th Feb '18 8:49:07 PM by NeonMoon

Imca (Veteran)
#63944: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:50:39 PM

Shindan: Abandoning colonies and then trying to reclaim them

SpartyMcFly Military Grade Shitposter from Not where he should be Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Get out of here, STALKER
Military Grade Shitposter
#63945: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:51:39 PM

Oliver: -to Leandros- Yep.

Since you didn't ask, they're called the Martyr Colonies because they had massive resource deposits located directly under the established colonial area. Nothing major was being done with them, mind - minor harvesting, but for the most part they wanted to get to a level where they could build the colony out and then convert parts of the old colony into resource extraction. But not all of it - keep the old remains as a cultural milestone.

Imagine their surprise when they woke up one day to IMC carriers and marines at the front door telling them they had 48 hours to vacate the premises so that the IMC could build over the colonies. Bulldoze everything, make it into a mine.

-to Shindan- Oh.

The IMC view the world through a lens of whatever makes them the most money. They were starting to lose money they couldn't compensate through humanitarian actions, so regardless of the humanitarian nature, they dropped them.

And then when they saw resources and got hungry, for whatever reason, they decided to go ahead and reclaim them, because it would make them money.

edited 28th Feb '18 8:52:42 PM by SpartyMcFly

"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."
NeonMoon Since: Oct, 2012
#63946: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:52:45 PM

Leandros: In truth, I had worked that out myself. >.>

SpartyMcFly Military Grade Shitposter from Not where he should be Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Get out of here, STALKER
Military Grade Shitposter
#63947: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:53:52 PM

Oliver: -to Leandros- Then you know how that story ends.

One or two capitulated.

The rest said no. So the IMC "forcibly relocated" them.

Guess what that, for the most part, entailed.

edited 28th Feb '18 8:55:11 PM by SpartyMcFly

"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."
NeonMoon Since: Oct, 2012
#63948: Feb 28th 2018 at 8:58:21 PM

Leandros: How do these always go? A massacre.

SpartyMcFly Military Grade Shitposter from Not where he should be Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Get out of here, STALKER
Military Grade Shitposter
#63949: Feb 28th 2018 at 9:01:55 PM

Oliver: Pretty much. Not complete, but IMC contract enforcement tends to be a bit trigger-happy. So for the colonies that resisted? They used force to get people out. And when people started resisting that force, they started shooting people until everyone fell in line.

Sayeret IV and Gita are the most infamous. They were... pretty individualistic, and when the IMC started moving in they opened fire first.

Gita was razed. No prisoners. Sayeret IV did a little better, but by that I mean "instead of being killed by people the IMC just pulled back and shelled the place until they'd geoengineered a new plains."

As a tip, we ever end up back home, try not to bring up those two names. Unlike all the rest of the Martyr Colonies they shot first, so they're a touch infamous. You ever want to start a barfight, just say one of them did nothing wrong or did everything wrong, then hope you don't catch a table to the solar plexus. >.>

edited 28th Feb '18 9:04:11 PM by SpartyMcFly

"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."
MrKirb Lights, Camera, Action! from bluh bluh land Since: Apr, 2011 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
Lights, Camera, Action!
#63950: Feb 28th 2018 at 9:03:46 PM

Roy: *Finds Philip reading the book.*

"Hey um...mind if I take a read of one of those books?"

edited 28th Feb '18 9:04:22 PM by MrKirb


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