The Recreation Commons - Fit the Fourth: Lounging with Lal - Page 15

Drogue · April 1, 2003, 08:00

Do you? I thought the consitution stated that

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From the UN Constitution
The Director of Peacekeeping Operations has the control of all military and covert ops units.
My Bold

Since the Shard Chopper is a military unit, I, as DPO, have control over all of them.

GeneralTacticus · April 1, 2003, 08:06

You have control over the military, but not civilian police forces and the CDF (which were rendered independant as part of the switch to FM). As the choppers are officially the property of the Centralis CDF and are being used by the civilian police force, they do not fall under your jurisdiction.

Cedayon · April 1, 2003, 12:47

*neglects to mention the control overrides built into all JV-built choppers, and a certain button on his Board-of-Evil-Buttons*

Drogue · April 1, 2003, 15:42

GT: You count a Shard Copter as policing?

What use could you have for that much weaponry? A scout chopper, with normal guns could be accepted, but as the police units show, you don't need weapons to improve policing, you need non-lethal weaponry.

DeathByTheSword · April 1, 2003, 16:46

oh my god...a serious conversation in the rec. commons

guards take them away!

Cedayon · April 1, 2003, 18:59

The Centralian Police Force motto:

Shard Choppers, for those particularly well armed drone riots

GeneralTacticus · April 2, 2003, 02:43

Precisely

Hive saboteurs often bring Impact weapons with them, which make a mockery of the light crowd control weapons our standard police employ.

Mr. President · April 2, 2003, 03:35

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Since the Shard Chopper is a military unit, I, as DPO, have control over all of them.

I didn't realize green-boy was DPO!

GeneralTacticus · April 2, 2003, 03:46

You should have been around for the election

Drogue · April 2, 2003, 10:05

Damn right Pres

Although one vote wouldn't have made a difference

MrWhereItsAt · April 2, 2003, 10:34

Those crowds get rowdier all the time. Shard weapons just won't do any more. Time for the Quantum Laser.

Maniac · April 2, 2003, 12:54

Wanna have a Xenobrew, Mr. President?

Drogue · April 2, 2003, 14:23

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Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt
Those crowds get rowdier all the time. Shard weapons just won't do any more. Time for the Quantum Laser.

Quantum!

For crowd control? I know you like to be safe, but isn't this a little far, even for you MWIA?

Quantum Lasers will not be available outside the military, for 2 reasons. The technology could be easily captured by our enemies if it is not kept under military safeguards, and to prevent unscrupulous persons possibly gaining access to it.

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Originally posted by Maniac
Wanna have a Xenobrew, Mr. President?

In order to help my boycott of Xenobrew, to protest against TKG's Evil Twin Sea Swiss Cheese Terragforming policy, all non-Xenocorp. drinks are on me. Thanks to a new ~~blackmailing target~~ generous benefactor. We must save Planet

Cedayon · April 2, 2003, 15:02

Well, to avoid having them fall into Yang's hands I've had our R&D teams configure our new weaponry to self-destruct if in the hands of a Communist.

...

oops, I better let the CCCP know before that shipment shows up at their firing range!

lucky22 · April 2, 2003, 16:33

We've gotten 'friendly fire' like that since the '50s back on Earth.

Mr. President · April 3, 2003, 03:17

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Wanna have a Xenobrew, Mr. President?

I think I need one!

Hercules · April 3, 2003, 07:15

Me Too. Such changes.

Maniac · April 3, 2003, 08:20

My order for 1000 litres of Xenobrew just arrived. Have fun tonight!

Drogue · April 3, 2003, 11:51

No Xenobrew

"Boreholes are an imperfection and must be removed"

(to continue my habit of changing quotes to include boreholes - spot where it's from?)

Until the Evil Swiss Cheese Program has ended, we must not buy Xenobrew. Black stuff, Freshwater Sea Wine, even Talisker and many other drinks, are all free! Why not choose these instead of stooping to the depths of supporting TKG's evil plans?

rant over

Cedayon · April 3, 2003, 12:19

What's that Drogue? Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of the borehole drilling

Drogue · April 3, 2003, 13:23

It's hard being a pacifist-greenie in this day and age

Cedayon · April 3, 2003, 14:25

Indeed, you can be pacifist (and just agree so you don't get mad) or you can be green, and just start shooting the FM'ers... but green-pacifism is just setting yourself up for unventable frustration when you've got people like TKG running things

*gets back to drilling*

Drogue · April 3, 2003, 14:56

Well. I can use Lemmy's defense. I can be a pacifist, but have my troops take *action* for me.

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I don't kill people.

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No, your undead army does.

Cedayon · April 3, 2003, 15:20

I'll tell the former teams to look out for tree-branch wielding potheads

...

Hey, why'd the drilling stop?

... *mutter* ...

Lemmy, why didn't you tell us about that large underground crypt near New Suez? We just hit it, and the undead look even more grumpy than usual

MrWhereItsAt · April 3, 2003, 17:46

Sorry, perhaps the Quantum laser is a bit too brutal for crowd control.

Surely NO-ONE will dispute the usefulness and humaneness of the Graviton Gun?

Drogue · April 3, 2003, 17:56

Next you'll want to create a large singularity in the middle of the crowd, to 'disperse' it

Do we really have violent demostrations? And we wouldn't want to curtail our peoples right to peaceful protest, by having excessive brutality towards those protesting, thus scarign everyone. We have courts for punishment, not shard weapons

GeneralTacticus · April 4, 2003, 03:43

As the chief shareholder of Centralis Aerospace Inc., makers of Shard Weapons and most of our faction's satellites, I would like to anounce that the prices of Xenobrew Inc. will now be recieving a 10% subsidy, in order to compensate for the negative of effects of the Green boycott.

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Do we really have violent demostrations?

No, but we do have periodic attacks by Hive guerillas.

Drogue · April 4, 2003, 05:20

Really? In Centralis? I was under the impression that the hive weapons had only reached our outer sea bases. Do we have reports for this? If so I shall send in some units to help.

GeneralTacticus · April 4, 2003, 05:27

Direct attacks by the Hive military only reach the northern areas; however, there are periodic probing attacks near NA by irregulars from the Hive, all of which have been repulsed quite easily (with, you may note, the use of the Shard wepaons you seem so keen on confiscating...)

Drogue · April 4, 2003, 05:36

Yes, because shard is far to powerful, especially since you have already stated that you wisah to use it for unscrupulous reasons, against the SETSP and against Green supporters. It is military technology, and should not be in the hands of non-military personel. As you should no, it does not matter which weaponry you use to repel "probing attacks". I did not even know our police were allowed to use guns?