Command Center (GW2)

[Kengplant]

It's a decent sized room with a few round windows looking out into space and to earth. One wall is dedicated to large screens displaying images of space, the NTWF, the moon, and one with a game of zero gravity polo on. (Which is of course there for security reasons, not because it's the finals and there are bets on who will win >.>)
Another wall is dedicated entirely to stimulant beverages including a wide variety of coffees. You can never have too much coffee. Nopeneverreally!Coffeecoffeecoffeecoffee!Morecoffeeplease,pleasecoffeeplease? (>.>)
There's a horseshoe table occupying a large amount of space. At each seat in a screen and various communication devices. One of the screens has tetris on it. The game is pause. Another screen has the demo of the NTWF game up on it. We are very dedicated to our tasks here >.>

So yea, basically just plan and discuss Spacefleet in GW here. You can encrypt things if you desire.

[Kengplant]

Ok, so right now I think it's obvious that we're going to be joining Kit. rp!Strife certainly seems intent on doing so, and we obey the commander. Much like the pirates, I'd prefer it if we'd stay together, which means Strife is gonna have to spin some real fancy propaganda for us to keep following. Or Kit will and Strife relays that to us. Whatever it is, I want there to be some propaganda reason for the well meaning members of Spacefleet to go along with this.

[Strife]

That seems like a good idea, Keng. At this point, The Commander is nervous about revealing his allegiance to Kit, because he fears that his officers will rebel against him.

At some point, however, his officers should find out, and that's when they're persuaded to side with the demons.

[Kengplant]

Well, with the way Kit's talking it's possible Keng might be willing to side with him after all. So who knows?

[Strife]

keng said:

Well, with the way Kit's talking it's possible Keng might be willing to side with him after all. So who knows?

Indeed. I think, once The Commander meets with Kit and his demon/angel bodyguards, he'll be surprised at the sight of the angels, and use their presence as a tool to persuade the rest of Spacefleet that siding with Kit would not be against the primary mission.

[Kengplant]

OK. So how about this one then:

The demons will break loose to claim their rights no matter what happens. For now they are attempting to do so through winning others to their side rather than a full out attack. It has been determined that though they are demons their cause is just as they say, they only wish to not be discriminated against. There are two angels, creatures of light and justice who have drawn their sword in allegiance with the demons. Spacefleet has decided to put aside it's biased against the creatures as it has done before with many other species and offer them our aid to end the conflict before it envelopes all of the NTWF.

[Strife]

keng said:

OK. So how about this one then:

The demons will break loose to claim their rights no matter what happens. For now they are attempting to do so through winning others to their side rather than a full out attack. It has been determined that though they are demons their cause is just as they say, they only wish to not be discriminated against. There are two angels, creatures of light and justice who have drawn their sword in allegiance with the demons. Spacefleet has decided to put aside it's biased against the creatures as it has done before with many other species and offer them our aid to end the conflict before it envelopes all of the NTWF.

Sounds like a plan. ^_^ Perhaps The Commander could give some kind of global announcement to Spacefleet after/during the meeting with Kit.

[Bacon]

I like that idea, except for the angels part. Theologically speaking, demons are fallen angels, so the two angels that side with the demons would therefore become demons themselves.

[Strife]

Indeed... that makes sense.

Once all of the officers in Headquarters have arrived at the briefing room, i'll be splitting everyone into two groups that will fly down to the surface. I'll give people a chance to decide which group they want to join, but I thought i'd tell you guys about this beforehand in case it becomes an issue for you. ^^;

Depending on how the groups are divided, and depending on how many people (if any) decide to stay in Headquarters, I may or may not choose to introduce Cyclops soon.

[Kengplant]

Would inviting Urchin to go with team 2 be a violation of security seeing as how she had not been invited to the meeting and is only a Merc? I hope not because otheriwise that means she'll be stuck at SF HQ doing nothing, and yes, I still plan on getting her to post.

[Strife]

keng said:

Would inviting Urchin to go with team 2 be a violation of security seeing as how she had not been invited to the meeting and is only a Merc? I hope not because otheriwise that means she'll be stuck at SF HQ doing nothing, and yes, I still plan on getting her to post.

She can still go with team 2, yes. ^^ She could replace one of the 20 NPC marines that are going with the second team.

[Kengplant]

Strife, could we maybe ease up on the military consequences thing? I'm guilty of it too. As a military group we are all stuck following orders, and then cowering at the consequences of doing anything without permission. For us to be able to continue actively being an influence in this RP we're going to need a bit more freedom. This isin't anybody's fault really, we just collectively structured the system too well for the chaos of GW. We have officers to make decisions on behalf of the commander, relaying all orders for approval is a waste of time, we should be expected to be able to make good decisions on our own. If we make bad decisions we loose our job or our rank. All these orders are making for a very restrictive RP.
On top of this I think we should lift the secrecy policy of Spacefleet. When trying to maintain our cover it's difficult to get involved. And so that none of us have to worry about being dropped off into a black hole, I believe this decision should come from Strife. The RP is becoming too linear. It's time to release the hounds.

Once again, this isn't any one person's fault, and this is just as much a reminder to me to get more involved as it it for everyone else.

[Strife]

Now that you mention it, those are some valid points Keng. In that sense, the second team should leave the space station without using long-range scanners to detect a safe landing spot.

My only trouble at this point is finding a motive for The Commander to lift Spacefleet's secrecy without him going out-of-character. I think this situation would do nicely:

Keng, Cyclops, and the rest of team 2 worry about The Commander and, instead of following his orders to land somewhere else, they mount a rescue mission and land their team right next to the crater. At this point, they're obviously spotted, and they'd be forced to lift their policy of secrecy because too many people spotted them.

In my next post, i'll have Cyclops bring up the suggestion of a rescue mission.

[Kengplant]

I was thinking something more along the lines of, "Well, if we are about to ally with Kit we can't do much by pretending we're not here. Time to lift the curtain!"

But your's could create a more interesting scenario, accept for the fact that to stay in character you'd have to fry us all for disobeying a direct order. But then again if the order came from cyclops... yea, that should work

[Strife]

keng said:

I was thinking something more along the lines of, "Well, if we are about to ally with Kit we can't do much by pretending we're not here. Time to lift the curtain!"

But your's could create a more interesting scenario, accept for the fact that to stay in character you'd have to fry us all for disobeying a direct order. But then again if the order came from cyclops... yea, that should work

Indeed. Cyclops is closer to The Commander than anyone else, so he'd probably be able to use the "since we're allying with Kit, there's no point trying to hide" argument to save everyone from getting the hangman's noose. xD;