From: Col. Mal Fnord, USSRAF (23@globalfrequency.fen)
To: Noah Scott (big-cheese@stellvia.lib)
Subj: Re: I'd like to say you're wrong, but...
Date Posted: May 19, 2013
* I don't feel guilt about it; what I feel is a sense of awe and wonder
* that people take my ramblings seriously. I wonder what would happen if
* I tried going into politics full-time... no, I've got a station to run.
Might be hard to accept, but as long as you're running the system's equivalent of Nagasaki you're one of the big wheels. Suck it up and move along.
* We'll need some way to refine the ores we pull out of that asteroid,
* and Wiregeek's posts make him look like he's firmly in Suzumiya's camp.
* Maybe we can work a deal with one of the Mercury smelting companies...?
Maybe, or there are some refining outfits in Port Luna we could talk to - lots of alumninum mining going on in the general area. There are also... other options, but I don't want to tip my hand too quickly.
* Somebody's going to have to pay for it all... and I doubt that
* "taxation without representation" will go over any better in Fenspace
* than it did in the Thirteen Colonies.
I think you're using the wrong model here. Remember, we've got several perfectly good governments already up and running. The Trekkies, Warsies, Senshi, Wizards & Browncoats all at least have functional representatve governments *plus* taxation schemes of their own. The amount of coin they're bringing in isn't that much, but with enough persuasion their combined contributions might be enough to keep things afloat.
Think UN Peacekeepers, only with the teeth the SOS-Con charter gave OGJ. And if we can produce concrete results, we can keep the funding rolling in.
* I can't argue with that... But that doesn't eliminate the possibility
* that somebody else in the SOS-dan is playing her and us for fools. Who
* else? Damned if I know.
That's a good point. What *do* we know about the rest of the SOS-dan?
* Which means we need Ninja who know what they're doing, or some other "sneaky
* agents" who can get into and out of secure facilities.
Not ninja. The local flavor is too heavily media-influenced, and media ninja are the exact opposite of subtle. No, what we need is a covert ops squad. Thankfully, Suzumiya has delivered unto us the perfect *vehicle* for such an endeavour.
(Speaking of spooks, do you or anybody on your crew have a line on who's behind AAA? I'm leery of foreign intel people being "helpful" on open channels, that sort of thing can't possibly end well for our fair land.)
* I knew Kohran got back from that scavenging trip too quickly... (She was
* supposed to clean up after herself. I hope she paid you well.)
*snort* She should've checked to make sure the damn thing's transmitter had failed before cracking open the powerplant. Told the client it was a micrometeor impact & did the replacement, no big thing.
--Mal
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"
To: Noah Scott (big-cheese@stellvia.lib)
Subj: Re: I'd like to say you're wrong, but...
Date Posted: May 19, 2013
* I don't feel guilt about it; what I feel is a sense of awe and wonder
* that people take my ramblings seriously. I wonder what would happen if
* I tried going into politics full-time... no, I've got a station to run.
Might be hard to accept, but as long as you're running the system's equivalent of Nagasaki you're one of the big wheels. Suck it up and move along.
* We'll need some way to refine the ores we pull out of that asteroid,
* and Wiregeek's posts make him look like he's firmly in Suzumiya's camp.
* Maybe we can work a deal with one of the Mercury smelting companies...?
Maybe, or there are some refining outfits in Port Luna we could talk to - lots of alumninum mining going on in the general area. There are also... other options, but I don't want to tip my hand too quickly.
* Somebody's going to have to pay for it all... and I doubt that
* "taxation without representation" will go over any better in Fenspace
* than it did in the Thirteen Colonies.
I think you're using the wrong model here. Remember, we've got several perfectly good governments already up and running. The Trekkies, Warsies, Senshi, Wizards & Browncoats all at least have functional representatve governments *plus* taxation schemes of their own. The amount of coin they're bringing in isn't that much, but with enough persuasion their combined contributions might be enough to keep things afloat.
Think UN Peacekeepers, only with the teeth the SOS-Con charter gave OGJ. And if we can produce concrete results, we can keep the funding rolling in.
* I can't argue with that... But that doesn't eliminate the possibility
* that somebody else in the SOS-dan is playing her and us for fools. Who
* else? Damned if I know.
That's a good point. What *do* we know about the rest of the SOS-dan?
* Which means we need Ninja who know what they're doing, or some other "sneaky
* agents" who can get into and out of secure facilities.
Not ninja. The local flavor is too heavily media-influenced, and media ninja are the exact opposite of subtle. No, what we need is a covert ops squad. Thankfully, Suzumiya has delivered unto us the perfect *vehicle* for such an endeavour.
(Speaking of spooks, do you or anybody on your crew have a line on who's behind AAA? I'm leery of foreign intel people being "helpful" on open channels, that sort of thing can't possibly end well for our fair land.)
* I knew Kohran got back from that scavenging trip too quickly... (She was
* supposed to clean up after herself. I hope she paid you well.)
*snort* She should've checked to make sure the damn thing's transmitter had failed before cracking open the powerplant. Told the client it was a micrometeor impact & did the replacement, no big thing.
--Mal
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"