Curiouser and curiouser. However it will now really benefit both sides. As long as Marcus can ensure the jaws of the vise don't close on him and the Damnatio folks.
Which vise would that be? Caligula Decimus is visibly unhinged and has abandoned his chain of command, dragging along the person most able to re-establish it on his flight of fancy. The Cassians are all under orders to stand down (except perhaps the one left on stakeout on Doc Silver?), except the one crippled by inane, insane leadership and the one openly collaborating with Maxus. Maxus is in the very interesting position of having survived an assassination attempt and having an urgent need to establish new hierarchy and legitimacy that cuts out the Caligula's influence. The Caligula left behind, in nominal command, a person whose ability to command and adapt to changing circumstances seems suspect if he truly believes spray-painting his armour red was truly a good use of his time. Aeneas is even less active and aware right now than normal, and is currently in the process of maintenance triage to restore him to some semblance of normal functionality. Damnatio is operating in hostile territory with the aid of a scarce handful of foreign operatives, and their ability to get as far as they have in this situation is probably at the limit of their capability since they are operating in a burning, enemy, military bunker. The New Troy operators have very cynically exploited existing civil-war tendencies to give themselves a free hand to complete their extraction mission, but they didn't bring anywhere near enough forces to control any of the other sides in anything less than the final way.
Overall summary: No one group here is in a good position to put anybody else in a vise unless they collaborate with other, unreliable, actors with conflicting goals to a greater extent than they already have. More briefly: Clusterfuck, nigh-complete chaos.
Noctis needs to start wearing earplugs if Decimus' voice might be coming through. Maybe even physically disable her ears. It would really suck to have the present order countermanded.
Boo~Hiss Daylight Savings Time Updates are an Hour Later!! Somebody please tell TeeDee that Douchie is a walking Doomsday Machine, however I doubt she would care if it meant getting rid of her Better Dead List.
Sorry about the time shift. And yes untill she knows Deck is a hands off target it would be very dangerous for any of the troy team to meet the prince.
The comment lies, there is no such thing as a 'grown up.' There are only people whose ignorance, insanity and immaturity is particularly crippling, or less debilitating, in any given situation.
I tend to concur with the 'grown up' part, especially after watching 70 year old men using tactics and strategies learned as bullies on the grammar school playground... and being frighteningly successful in accomplishing their aims.
I'd call this was more of a temporary congruity of interests between cooler-headed strategists willing to exploit an evolving situation to their mutual benefit as well as gain control of its direction.
If you do not want people to use the playground tactics of intimidation, deception, and deprivation you need to create a world in which those tactics are not rewarded.
As long as a stratagem produces success, rather than Pyrrhic victories and outright failures, the use of that stratagem will be reinforced and emulated by others.
Actually the frequency use isn't that bold. It is tactically astute when they have their own encryption key in place. A structure like the Black Palace is not radio transparent and all of the internal RF Infrastructure is designed to replicate that frequency already. Since they are generating the hash, probabally at each handset radio, its also easier for them to screen it out. It also means that the existing palace radio encryption key is installed on the handsets to allow the penetration teams to effectivly listen in on transmissions of the defenders. Lastly, attempting a more thorough jamming of your own active transmission frequency hurts you as much as the person you are jamming.
Something just occurred to me. If Maxus and Marcus come to an agreement, would Noctis be violating it if she does not disclose the hit she's ordered on anyone coming out of the Network Operations Center? It's not like she claim she forgot.
Great, I hope that will help these two sides - but this enables the cassians to communicate with each other now that they know one of their frequencies is not blocked.
I wonder if TeeDee and Ada can follow Lynn without being attacked by Aeneas - following on the surface like that.
I wonder when Dolly and Ceci will be able and ready to call in on secure comms and give a status update?
Teedee: #This is TDE-K132-3F. We have crash-landed our commandeered transport after being shot down. Confirm that some of the target location's automatic defences are active. Minor damage sustained. We will proceed on foot. Over.# ..$@!&*#% SAMs! Yeah, we should'a lifted a rig with countermeasures...
Dolly: #Hello. This is DOL-E224. I am pleased to be able to report that I have Lynn Taylor and the princess Acantha safe in a location outside New Rome. We are not a priority for recovery. DOL-E224 out.#
Teedee: *pause* *twitch* *rechecks physical damage* Ada... do you detect any life forms in the area? 'Cos I have an urgent need to kill something...
Hah, good one Greenwood Goat. :D
Heck, I would half expect TeeDee to want some of those SAM's for her own use.
Meanwhile, Dolly would probably tell TeeDee where the highspeed rail to the palace is, so TeeDee would be a happy camper once again. :)
As fast as she is, she might have stored it in order to have her hands free (like for moving debris, inputting a code or the like). As tapped in as Team Steamroller has been, TeeDee may know that there is no opposition nearby too. Ada might need her's out to help balance the portable hospital she has strapped to her back.
The use of white gold I know of (besides specifying a certain type of real gold) is that for porcelain ("china"). It was the white gold because it had to be imported from China by long and dangerous travels until someone in Europe found out how to copy that...
Got a suggestion, when this is all over, they sit down for a couple beers, all in the name of interstate relations of course. Lets see an arm wrestling contest between TeeDee and Maxus.
Seriously. That is just awesome. I don't even know the adjectives to describe that. I could fudge some and they wouldn't sound enough. "Ballerest black-ops black-and-red bling machine" is the closest I can think of. Which sounds cheesier than the premise for...half of the movies made today, and about half as cool as it looks, at most.
Overall summary: No one group here is in a good position to put anybody else in a vise unless they collaborate with other, unreliable, actors with conflicting goals to a greater extent than they already have. More briefly: Clusterfuck, nigh-complete chaos.
Love this page...espec. the body armor!
I'd call this was more of a temporary congruity of interests between cooler-headed strategists willing to exploit an evolving situation to their mutual benefit as well as gain control of its direction.
As long as a stratagem produces success, rather than Pyrrhic victories and outright failures, the use of that stratagem will be reinforced and emulated by others.
I wonder if TeeDee and Ada can follow Lynn without being attacked by Aeneas - following on the surface like that.
Teedee: #This is TDE-K132-3F. We have crash-landed our commandeered transport after being shot down. Confirm that some of the target location's automatic defences are active. Minor damage sustained. We will proceed on foot. Over.# ..$@!&*#% SAMs! Yeah, we should'a lifted a rig with countermeasures...
Dolly: #Hello. This is DOL-E224. I am pleased to be able to report that I have Lynn Taylor and the princess Acantha safe in a location outside New Rome. We are not a priority for recovery. DOL-E224 out.#
Teedee: *pause* *twitch* *rechecks physical damage* Ada... do you detect any life forms in the area? 'Cos I have an urgent need to kill something...
>:=)>
Heck, I would half expect TeeDee to want some of those SAM's for her own use.
Meanwhile, Dolly would probably tell TeeDee where the highspeed rail to the palace is, so TeeDee would be a happy camper once again. :)
Except that one over there that looks like Tuna!
*drools slightly*
I remember a commercial called "Black Gold", are they related ?
Californy is the place ya otta be!
And Happy Pi Day to you too, Timotheus.
Wasn't me!
o.O
Yesh it wash her!
Seriously. That is just awesome. I don't even know the adjectives to describe that. I could fudge some and they wouldn't sound enough. "Ballerest black-ops black-and-red bling machine" is the closest I can think of. Which sounds cheesier than the premise for...half of the movies made today, and about half as cool as it looks, at most.