The Space Opera Working Thread, page 138

reply to post by badgerprints

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Badger you dog. I'm NOT Myron Francis.

lol

I don't know what we're going to do about the psycho-bot yet, but I'll think of something.

reply to post by mf_luder

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Oh yeah - and I like the Kashyyk reference in the hallway name too. Good one.

reply to post by SeekerOfAUTMN

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Dont worry the Chief was with you.
Blowing em up real good was a good thing!

reply to post by nenothtu

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Neno probably learned some of the hard lessons on Khala-whatever-that-planet's-called.
Sometimes you gotta do what's wrong to do what's right.


Oh and happy fourth of July to whoever is celebrating it. Not sure where everyone is from, but enjoy yourselves anyway.

Me... I have some explosives to go set off.

reply to post by SLAYER69

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Hey Slayer, that GIF in your signature is pretty awesome man. You mind if I save a copy?

I've been meaning to ask how you design those GIFs that you use in your posts but I keep forgetting.

Originally posted by SeekerOfAUTMN
reply to post by SLAYER69

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Hey Slayer, that GIF in your signature is pretty awesome man. You mind if I save a copy?

TODAY?
It's public property

Originally posted by SeekerOfAUTMN
reply to post by nenothtu

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Neno probably learned some of the hard lessons on Khala-whatever-that-planet's-called.
Sometimes you gotta do what's wrong to do what's right.


Oh and happy fourth of July to whoever is celebrating it. Not sure where everyone is from, but enjoy yourselves anyway.

Me... I have some explosives to go set off.

Yeah, he learned some hard lessons on Khalamzadar. But he also learned 'em on Black Rock, Wotan, Ninkidu, and several other battlefield worlds over time. I swear, one day I'll get to writing a character history, and leave it vague enough to add stuff that pops up in the future (like Black Rock - I'd have never built that in to his original specifications, since it was Badger's concept), and specific enough to peg his reasonings.

For neno, this isn't a matter of right or wrong, it's a matter of what's effective, and insures the ship and crews arrival alive on the other side of the battle, and helps insure against the necessity of future battles, because he really doesn't like fighting, but one does what one is good at.

The more thorough the victory, the less likely a repeat performance in the future.

He doesn't like fighting, because people get killed and things get torn up, and one day, one of those people getting killed is gonna be him. He'll do whatever he feels necessary to push that date with destiny as far into the future as he can, as long as it doesn't endanger the crew of "his" boat.

He feels it's "his" boat, because he's tasked with the safety and security of the Penelope.

I guess it might be a matter of "right" and "wrong", but his perceptions of those concepts don't necessarily agree with what is determined to be "normal".

It's "right" for "his" people aboard Penelope to survive and thrive. That include every man-jack aboard. He tends to feel more responsibility than is actually his.

It's "wrong" for "his" people to be killed or threatened.

He's often harsh and abrasive with those same people he serves because it gets their attention, and helps them to develop their own survival mindset, even if only out of fear of what HE might do to them.

Kind of like what drill sergeants used to do to recruits, he's cruel to be kind.

He's really a pretty simple man, and has pretty simple views, but to some, such as Studious, and perhaps Luder and Badger, those "simple" views may be well nigh incomprehensible.

He DOES have a heart, but he ain't gonna let you see it if he can help it. In his mind that might compromise his combat effectiveness.

His sense of duty, honor, and loyalty is WAY too overdeveloped, but may not always coincide with the common definitions of those concepts.

That's why he didn't mind completely and totally obliterating the NI ships. They were a threat, and had to be dealt with on a permanent basis, so THOSE NI agents would never become a threat again. That's also why he's going to back up Asher just as far as he is humanly able to push it.

Besides, he made a pact of sorts with Asher in the captain's ready room in the NI interview episode. His sense of honor and loyalty won't allow him to back out of it now that Asher's apparently in the grease.

Through thick and thin. That's what Brotherhood is about. If you abandon a brother when he needs you the most, you're a waste of otherwise perfectly good skin.



[edit on 2009/7/5 by nenothtu]

reply to post by badgerprints

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ROFL!

On top of all of that some old man and his imaginary wife are running around the ship sabotaging things screwing the entire mission up singlehandedly with a cane.

Neno,

You can go write that background profile on the UEF Data thread if you so choose.

I think that Luder is pretty much worried about how to protect Asher at this point. He doesn't really care per se that the enemy were wiped out, he's more concerned with the blow-back if someone from higher were to find out about it.

Hard to protect your ship mates when they are borderline psychotic.

reply to post by badgerprints

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ROFLMAO! MY GAWD, but you've got a way with words!

reply to post by nenothtu

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I still think that was unjust.

You can't have a collaborative group effort on anything and not have a bit of sidebar or bonding thrown in.

Just won't work.

Just me though.

Oh well.

LOL on the "mystery guy who writes stuff at the top of the page"....

reply to post by badgerprints

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Ok... Intergalactic Evil Spiderman is so awesome it's hurting my eyes to look at it. Why would anyone make a movie about regular Spiderman when they could be telling the story of Intergalactic Evil Spiderman?



Honestly though, I think everyone is playing their characters really well. I'm hoping the thread gets moving again so I can see what happens next.

This opera is worse than crack, I swear....

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