oldboy-103

[oldboy-103]

Shut the fuck up, Id rather be hated by the people than loved by nobles and oppressors. They aren't wrong to hate people like me but an individual is not the enemy the system itself is the culprit.

CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF THE UNGRATEFUL MOVEMENT DOESN'T HATE ANYONE FOR BEING BORN INTO NOBLE STATUS

WE JUST HATE PEOPLE FOR BEING ANNOYING LITTLE SHITHEADS

AS IT TURNS OUT THERE'S SIMPLY A FAIR AMOUNT OF OVERLAP!

[oldboy-103]

I'm not a cop. I'm not even a combatant. I'm a field medic and freighter pilot. When I worked for the doj/hr I never once engaged in combat I was the fucker who showed up with food and medicine.

People see that I work for union and assume I agree with them. I work under union for the same reason everyone else does. The benefits. The only mech I've even been in was a Lancaster and it was a civilian model.

CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF THE UNGRATEFUL MOVEMENT DOESN'T HATE ANYONE FOR BEING BORN INTO NOBLE STATUS

WE JUST HATE PEOPLE FOR BEING ANNOYING LITTLE SHITHEADS

AS IT TURNS OUT THERE'S SIMPLY A FAIR AMOUNT OF OVERLAP!

[oldboy-103]

At least 70% of all people in power are assholes. They do not deserve the power they were granted by fate and the only solution is to seize the power that rightfully belongs to the people.

And I swear to fucking ra and all those God damn passions if I see some stuck up bastard, bitch or blashphemer from the ruling class talk about "peaceful protests" or how things are changing for the better I will blow up what ever manor or house they call home.

CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF THE UNGRATEFUL MOVEMENT DOESN'T HATE ANYONE FOR BEING BORN INTO NOBLE STATUS

WE JUST HATE PEOPLE FOR BEING ANNOYING LITTLE SHITHEADS

AS IT TURNS OUT THERE'S SIMPLY A FAIR AMOUNT OF OVERLAP!

[oldboy-103]

I've been there, friend. I recommend taking a break doing some freelance work or picking up a hobby for a few years. The perk of a basic income means you can afford to take time to yourself and refocus.

I myself take a year or two breaks from work every decade or so alongside smaller breaks in between. Saving lives is great, but over time the failures of the job wears you down.

Making sure that the others with me can’t see this.

I feel like I’m… unhappy, where I am. Like being stuck in one thing.

I love Union, I love the DOJ. I just don’t know if I want to do this anymore though.

[oldboy-103]

What if I've boarded union ships in a union ship.

Rogue nhp navigator was taking over the ships autopilot, and the captain and crew got posioned by 2 week old ration meals. I might give a more detailed story of that mission later it was a fun time.

[oldboy-103]

I realized something the other day. People know I'm old, but few realize how old I am. My "real" age never really comes up in conversations. They see the grey hair and handsomely aged face and think "Oh he's old," but I was born 5 years before thirdcomm began. Unlike some others who reach the same relative age, I reached this age via long-term blinkspace travel, hibernation, and lots of surgeries over the years. I don't have much in the way of cybernetics, and I'm not always hooked up to machines. Other than an arm and a leg, I had replaced after a rough series of missions I am mostly myself.

[oldboy-103]

From my time in the Doj/HR, saving everyone rarely happens, but the pain you feel knowing you failed someone is a constant for every mission. Even if you did by some miracle, save the day and rescue everyone.

The pain of failure is what always made me strive to succeed. Knowing the pain and grief that would accompany my failures motivated me to do my damnest to save as many as possible.

When I retired from the doj, that pain didn't go away it just moved to the background as I started working with supply lines to provide people with lasting help.

I think something you need to understand if you're going to join the DoJ/HR, and especially if you're going to join the Liberator Teams, is that you can't save everyone.

No matter how hard you try, how fast you move, how hard you hit, how skilled you are, there is going to be someone, more likely many someones, that you can't save.

And you need to make your peace with that.

But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try.

|| KARATEKA ||

[oldboy-103]

I am officially being sent to ktb space to help "regulate new supply lines" what that actually means you will need to figure out yourselves, but with any luck I'll have to join a few politicos with karrakin diplomatic missions.

Not to say I enjoy knocking nobles down a peg, but there is something cathartic about watching them bluster about their own importance.

On a side note, what is everyone's favorite food? I personally love fresh fruit. Cradle's wild strawberries used to be my snack of choice, but they just don't taste the same with all the engineers tampering with them.

[oldboy-103]

I just spent 12 hours in meetings about a new supply line. You think after retiring, I'd get some time to myself. But apparently, being an 'expert' in my field means I get dragged into meetings any time I'm not in blinkspace.

And I swear they ask the dumbest questions about moving freight. Like yes, it does cost more to go around the known pirate areas, but if you want your supply's to get where they are going, you are gonna pay that extra cost.

But I somehow convinced the big wigs not to sacrifice all their freight to save manna. And now I'm sitting around waiting for the next meeting about "whether it would be more cost efficient to use only subalterns instead of a human/nhp crew." Fuck I can't even make this shit up they want to replace the onboard nhp and the entire human crew with automated subalterns. Fucking idiots.

[oldboy-103]

Oh I apologize, I did not misread you, but wouldn't it be great to see the look on his face when he hears a union doj member (which I'm not actually doj anymore) is gonna pick up all thier doj friends and personally raid a single manor for no reason.

I have no plan to hurt him as with most conspiracy theorists, they are harmless, but poking them can lead to a lot of fun.

Ah, it is fun watching the local nobility clam up the moment they've realized that I've brought a "DoJ operative" into their midst.

Strel's father in particular has made quite a fuss about my requested guests to this weekend's celebrations. No one would accuse him of his hands being dirty, being primarily a patron of the arts type, but he's bought into some conspiracy theory that the DoJ/HR is conspiring to overthrow us all based on some ill-sourced rumors of a liberator team arming Sanjak despite the ceasefire.

I would mean no insult to Baron Farnese, of course. He just seems representative of a type that seems spooked by a simple invitation to a fellow Union agent who has seen fit to vacation here on our humble planet. (I personally think it is good for them, having to see someone with ambitions so outside their own. It keeps their ambitions quiet.) I cannot wait to see how they behave once we're together in person.

[oldboy-103]

Let the baron know I will personally drive a full fleet of union doj into his driveway for his crimes. What crimes those are I do not know but I'll fucking do it.

Ah, it is fun watching the local nobility clam up the moment they've realized that I've brought a "DoJ operative" into their midst.

Strel's father in particular has made quite a fuss about my requested guests to this weekend's celebrations. No one would accuse him of his hands being dirty, being primarily a patron of the arts type, but he's bought into some conspiracy theory that the DoJ/HR is conspiring to overthrow us all based on some ill-sourced rumors of a liberator team arming Sanjak despite the ceasefire.

I would mean no insult to Baron Farnese, of course. He just seems representative of a type that seems spooked by a simple invitation to a fellow Union agent who has seen fit to vacation here on our humble planet. (I personally think it is good for them, having to see someone with ambitions so outside their own. It keeps their ambitions quiet.) I cannot wait to see how they behave once we're together in person.

[oldboy-103]

Blood, Sweat, and Oil. Merit, Money, and Might. The universe revolves around many things. Corporations are no different. Worlds aren't either.

If you want something there is a way to get it. If you want something gone there is way to remove it. Any person savvy in politics, military or supply lines knows this is a fact.

I have spent my life using every resource I have moving people and things where they need to go, sometimes I'm at the front driving ships like cattle, other times in an office debating with people out of thier depth. But I always get things where they must be.

I do not enjoy any of these tasks but someone needs to do it. And I will not lie and tell you I always did so legally. Because I did not. Embargo lines are as fallable as the idiots who put them in place. And boycotting is only as effective as the propaganda behind it.

Our society is not perfect, I do not care what you consider that society to be. Whether you are karrakin, Cradle/Union, IPNS, Harrison born and raised, made by SSC. We are unable to achieve perfection, but that should not stop us from trying.

[oldboy-103]

Every lancaster is female, it's like space ships and old vehicles, the Lanny is a beautiful women and if you say they arent then congrats you have a trans lancaster and should be very proud of him.

im like if the lancaster was a girl

[oldboy-103]

And the people of sanjak would agree with me as it's people labeled pirates that help bring them supplies.

Good and bad people fill this world. Do not let a handful of examples define a universe of possibilities.

It's interesting seeing new players discuss the "Mundanity of Evil" represented by IPS-N. However, I have to nitpick a lore discrepancy that people seem to miss that certainly impacts the analysis. IPS-N does not have shareholders. They are not a publicly owned business. IPS-N is collectively owned by the workers. Their leadership is democratic.

Yeah. They perpetuate piracy and sell weapons under the table to literally anyone. They work with actual space fascists for weapons research. They also pay and treat their workers the best out of almost any corporation in the galaxy. The benefits are great. Easy to ignore all that shady shit when the paycheck is so good.

[oldboy-103]

I am an old man, I have lived hundreds of years at this point, I saw the fall of seccom and lived through the rise of countless worlds, but I am not pro union, I am not pro corporation I do not live for a logo or a catchphrase. I spent my entire life helping people. I gave my entire existence to helping those without the means to help themselves.

I hate union, I hate Harrison arms, I hate SSC and I hate IPNS, I hate RA and the Passions, the houses of the ktb can go to the blink. Christ the bhudda can call it quits because as long as I have a heart beating in my chest and blood in my veins I will do what I can to help everyone I can.

This life is not about pledging yourself to the greater good or fighting for the pillars. Life is supposed to be lived by everyone, whether flesh, code, or exoskeleton, all lives deserve to be safeguarded.

Every corporation has sinned, union is not absolute and RA itself cannot stop every action.

Fight for what you believe, inaction is death, and apathy is compliance in a broken system.

[oldboy-103]

Piracy is just the label the oppressors use to denounce the free circulation of goods, a Pirate may be cruel and kill people, but the act of piracy only harms those in power.

It's interesting seeing new players discuss the "Mundanity of Evil" represented by IPS-N. However, I have to nitpick a lore discrepancy that people seem to miss that certainly impacts the analysis. IPS-N does not have shareholders. They are not a publicly owned business. IPS-N is collectively owned by the workers. Their leadership is democratic.

Yeah. They perpetuate piracy and sell weapons under the table to literally anyone. They work with actual space fascists for weapons research. They also pay and treat their workers the best out of almost any corporation in the galaxy. The benefits are great. Easy to ignore all that shady shit when the paycheck is so good.

[oldboy-103]

This is the mentality that keeps the corporations going. Yes, one person will not bankrupt all of ssc, but if you have ever fought for freedom, why even consider supporting a group you know is unethical. How can you stand if a cigar is all it takes to make you fall?

The small things make the bigger things easier. This is common psychology. The good and the bad start small, boycotting a cigar brand is a small act of defiance that can impact those around you who might move on to impact others to stop the consumption of ssc goods.

We do not create a utopia with only grand acts of violence or war, every person must strive to make each day better.

Damn am I tired of smokin' cheap shit. Hopin' my next sortie'll pay enough to get me some of them fancy SSC cigars.