The Rebel Faction

*menacing stare at interlopers*


Don't hyjack this thread with hypothetical questions.

Omega is trying to discuss with Dolash about the Kubindi thread.

The Union has made a concerted effort, by ICly and OOCly, to mainatin the veil or secrecy and mystery that surrounds the Union ICly.


IE Don't make random leaps of faith.

The Tammar and Kubindi threads are seperate. There is a war going on and I hardly see how a pair of rag-tag fleets could be the be the Coalition's biggest concern. Dont start connecting dots that are no way in line with each other.

For example, Telan used the attack on Tynna as the requisite 500 word RP for the Astrus Star Destroyer. Since there was only one Astrus present in that battle (the prototype Astrus itself) that was legitimate...

Common sense...

As dolash said it's common sense here.

True BDE probably possess the same ships but why would they attack with no markings? We're quite clearly at war with BDE they don't need to pretend.

Instead we're faced by two seperate attacks by an unknown group. There are two options.

a)One group somehow managed to get a fuckload of ships with nobody knowing, no population base and no access to speccialized military technology to the best of my knowledge. Possession of such ships would of course be illegal in GC, TNO and BDE space but they managed to do it.

b)Or two groups managed to do all of the above.

Ockham once said that of two options the simplest was nearly always true. This became known as ockham's razor. This makes sense when you think about it. It is far more likely for us to miss one group based on one planet or one hidden base than two groups.

What's the timeline between these two attacks by the 'unknown entity', in IC time?

I'm guessing it wouldn't be a matter of hours - a couple days, or so. Also a couple days after the missile attack. This is based on... nothing at all. I just thought it was a reasonable estimate.

Also, Tir, it has been described in the past that a single Star Destroyer could drain a planets' resources to maintain. A government, that collects taxes and has many worlds and has many citizens whom it can call upon to crew and build such ships, sure, could probably afford a fleet. Most do. The Coalition has a warfleet of vessels because it has government-run foundaries and government-owned sources of resources. It gets its' crew through enlistment on the grounds of patriotism, public service, ethical cause, or free education - the point is that governments are practically expected to have warships.

Thus, if someone has scrounged together enough ships not just to raid a convoy or kidnap a trade vessel, but to full-out-assault a planet, they must have serious resources, incentives for their men, the works. It's seriously unlikely that two entirely different organizations we've never heard of have launched fleets at the same time to attack us.

It probably isn't the Empire - they use brand-new Star Destroyers, and are generally very proud of declaring who they are and what they're about to do. It also can't be the Black Dragons directly, since they use a lot of their own special ships. We're at war with the Black Dragons, however, and in war people often hire mercenaries or some such thing.

So what happens? Kubindi is under attack, the commander looks out and sees some ships that don't have anything to denote alliegance. He remembers a little while back the same thing happened at Tammar. Thus, he reasons, it's probably the same guys.

Is it really that big a deal? It's not like it'll influence the outcome and it doesn't give us any new information.