#aegis solutions

[blograkeshlove]

Why Should You Not Opt for a Local and Unauthorised Shop for Canon Printers for Commercial Use?

Quick Fixes Lead to Long-Term Losses

For commercial printing, every decision affects output, efficiency, and your team's workflow. While it may seem convenient to buy from a local, unauthorised shop, it often creates more problems than solutions.

The Risks of Buying Unauthorised

Unauthorised sellers cannot guarantee original Canon copiers or xerox machines. These outlets often sell outdated models, refurbished units, or devices without proper warranty coverage. That small initial discount? It quickly turns into a series of costly repairs and missing features.

Professional Equipment Needs Professional Support

Canon large format printers and large format printers and scanners are complex machines designed for professional use. If installed incorrectly or maintained poorly, their performance drops significantly. These are not plug-and-play devices. They require technical knowledge and ongoing support—something most local sellers can’t provide.

Why Choose Aegis Solutions?

On the other hand, authorised providers like Aegis Solutions offer peace of mind. At our Canon printer showroom in Kolkata, you get hands-on guidance, demonstrations, and a full understanding of what you’re investing in. We also ensure post-sale service, updates, and genuine parts.

Final Thought

For commercial operations, downtime equals loss. Buying from an unauthorised source may save a little upfront but can cost you heavily in productivity.

Choose wisely. Choose Aegis Solutions—for products you can trust and support you can count on.

[koreessentials]

Range-Tested: My Honest Impressions of the Kore Essentials B1 Belt! 

KORE Essentials introduces the World’s First Micro Adjustable Battle Belt. Now for the first time ever, you can loosen or tighten your battle belt, in tiny increments, while walking, running or even crawling thru the mud, without ever undoing the buckle. The result = the Best-Fitting, Most Adjustable Molle Belt you'll ever wear! A track sewn into the back of the belt creates 20+ micro sizing positions to adjust in 1/4" increments. Plus it’s equipped with our indestructible, solid Power-Core™ center to support all the gear you can handle, while at the same time, providing ultra flexibility for total comfort. It’s a game changer for sure. Kore battle belts fit any waist from 24" up to 48”, feature a One Year Warranty & 30 Day MBG. Thanks to AEGIS DEFENSE SOLUTIONS for the great, informative review. See Kore Battle Belts & EDC belts - http://www.KoreEssentials.com

 #battlebelt, #gunbelt, #koreessentials, #dutybelt, #warbelt, #copbelt, #rangebelt, #tacticalbelt, #mollebelt, #operatorbelt,

[transmutationisms]

an issue people like to point to in a lot of public discourse is that many people have never been given the tools to evaluate the reliability of information---this goes for scientific studies, news reports, information disseminated by doctors or think tanks, &c.

liberal efforts to combat this problem tend to start and end at advice to "find and listen to a trusted authority"---by which they mean, someone with a professional and/or academic credential. the obvious problem with this strategy is that many credentialed people are also full of shit, and credential-granting institutions themselves have ideological purposes and ends. that is, an md or a phd or any other expert certification is not value-neutral or apolitical. teaching people to defer to authorities and experts is not the solution here.

the secondary liberal response, if you can walk them up to this point, tends to start and end with "teach people how to evaluate which experts are trustworthy"---but of course, in the liberal imagination this education must always and only take place under the aegis of a suitably credentialed and officially approved institution. it's like an endless redux: "ok, this particular authority might be bad and propagandistic actually---let's find the correct authority to fix that!"

as long as you're not giving people the tools to evaluate, engage with, and challenge expertise themselves, all you're doing is continuing to replicate the same power structures but with different faces swapped in as the source from which the ultimate epistemological authority emanates.

[artbyblastweave]

Hey, I just read this superhero series called Rising Stars. Have you heard of that before, and do you have any thoughts on it?

Personally I loved it. 113 children in utero get affected by the energy of a comet passing overhead, and start developing powers. They all get different levels of power, some never realise what their powers are, some just straight up suck.

Like there's a guy who's totally indestructible. But he's not and stronger or faster, he just can't be damaged. And he can't feel anything tactile either. So he over indulges in taste because it's one of the only sense he has, and ends up obese.

There's a girl with telekinesis, who can only manipulate small objects. The carotid artery is a small object, so she gets headhunted by the CIA for assassination work.

And then there's the reveal that their powers operate off a shared energy pool, and if one dies the remaining power gets shared among the remainder. And then people start turning up dead...

Rising Stars has been near and dear to my heart for a very long time. It's by no means perfect, but one of the things I find the most compelling about it is how it positions superhumanity as a fundamentally extremely finite phenomenon.

Works in which superpowers are introduced to a world that didn't previously have them will often break in one of two directions; either they'll treat it as a new, sustainable equilibrium that will somehow fail to change anything of import, or else it's a floodgate that opens and completely wipes away the status quo. But both scenarios generally take for granted that capes as a general phenomenon are here to stay- that there's some replacement-rate mechanism at play. Rising Stars depicts a world where this isn't true, and moreover it very quickly becomes clear to everyone that this isn't true- that these 113 people are the only superhumans the world is ever gonna get. That's enough to be extremely disruptive, but not necessarily paradigm shifting- and the worldbuilding reflects that in interesting ways, the sense that the reaction of many is just that they've gotta wait these assholes out.

Maybe some of them habitually dine-and-dash at upscale restaurants but what are you going to do, call the army every time? Not worth it. There's fewer than a hundred of these guys, it's not like letting it slide is going to be the start of something. One of them takes over Chicago and runs it as a fiefdom? Okay, that's bad, but it's one city and everyone else who's similarly inclined already rallied under her aegis, still not a paradigm shift. The entire containment strategy for the ones who are habitually supervillainous is to ring up one or two of the ones who decided to be superheroes and dump them in Antarctica, forcing them to walk back. Obviously not a great solution but what's the incentive to come up with something better? This isn't a growing population that demands a systemic response, it's the same six or seven guys every time, and you're only gonna have to put up with them for so long.

And the series really did a lot with the fact that these people all know each other- a small-town's graduating class worth of superhumans who all grew up together. The "oh, what's so-and-so up to these days" energy of it all. The comparable sense of wasted potential as you get into your late-twenties-early-thirties, take a look at what everyone you grew up with has been up to lately, and really seriously evaluate what it is, exactly, that you've actually accomplished with your life, compared to what you thought you were going to do when you were a teenager. The Specials don't even have the luxury of existing in a conventional superhero universe where their personal mediocrity (real or perceived) will come out in the wash due to all the other superpeople running around-they're wasting more than just their own individual lives through their inaction or failure, and the series milks that growing sense of rat-in-a-trap tension as their numbers start to really dwindle in earnest over the course of the comic.

[dinovrse]

The Cafe That Brought Us Together.☕

OT13 x Reader (SMAU)

Alternative Title : I can feel something brewing between the two of us.

Contains : Fluff , Cafe au , University au

Warning : swearing in some parts of the smau.

Sypnosis : Carat cafe has been becoming quite popular lately , it seems like it became quite famous for bringing people together and also being a hotspot for single people in Going University , maybe you can be the next one to be in a relationship !

Taglist : request me or DM me personally :)

Released. . .

I latte you alot.🦌 (Joshua)

Sypnosis : Joshua was having a very boring shift while working in a cafe and suddenly you walked in !

Good Gracious , Ass is Bodacious.😇 (Jeonghan)

Sypnosis : Jeonghan enters Carat cafe to meet his Barista friend Joshua but sees a hot staff and compliments their looks and maybe something else too 🤔

Unreleased. . .

Clumsiness is Key to Winning Hearts !.🐶 (Mingyu)

Sypnosis : Around the university Mingyu was known to be hot but they never knew how clumsy he was until he became a staff member in Carat cafe !

You Don't Like Iced Americanos?.👽 (Vernon)

Sypnosis : One day , Vernon enters a library to borrow a book and was helped by a kind stranger who helps the librarian time to time ! Vernon is thankful and wants to see the stranger again , definitely not because he found them hot !

Aegi My Ass !.🦕 (Dino)

Sypnosis : Dino sees a hot person in Carat cafe and wonders how he should approach them and ask them on a date , luckily (or is it?) Jeonghan has a solution and helps Dino !

. . .

Just made this a series because why not LMAO.

[obsessioncollector]

... As he continued making games, Wright would become inspired by the postwar architect Christopher Alexander, whose 1977 book A Pattern Language became a cult manual for city design. It divided metropolitan life into modular elements—“SMALL PUBLIC SQUARES,” “GREEN STREETS,” “SHOPPING STREET”—and then instructed readers on how they should be combined. In this approach an environment became an almost mathematical operation: “Each pattern describes a problem which occurs,” Alexander writes, “and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice.”

Maxis was acquired by EA in 1997; three years later Wright released The Sims, the ur-game, a simulation of humanity itself. In the same way that Alexander proposed curating infinite variety under a standardizing aegis, so could the components of The Sims be shuffled and toggled into ever-proliferating realities. Wright had lost his home in the Oakland firestorm of 1991, and has said that the original purpose of The Sims was to simulate the building and designing of houses. Indeed, the game maintains a lasting obsession with real estate. To play a family one must buy a home, and a home in The Sims is like a zen garden: obsessively tended to, an object of constant maintenance and contemplation. One can spend hours surveying possible wallpaper choices or creating a painstakingly gabled roof. In a 2022 oral history published by Vice, the franchise’s first art director, Charles London, said that The Sims was meant to be “an architecture game.” Little characters were added to “score” the design choices, only to eventually become the main feature and appeal.

Some commentators believe that The Sims is meant to satirize suburbia. “The boredom, the sterility, the uselessness and the futility of contemporary life,” writes the media scholar Alexander Galloway, “are depicted precisely using the things that represent it best: a middle-class suburban house, an Ikea catalogue of personal possessions, crappy food and even less appetizing music, the same dozen mindless tasks over and over.” Others have argued that the game is more sincere, a naif’s tribute to property ownership and what one gaming website calls its “beautiful scenery and idyllic backdrops.” There are listicles, Reddit threads, and YouTube channels dedicated to ranking and showcasing Sims mansions, guided by the same voyeurism as the tours of real houses in Architectural Digest.

But Wright, who left EA in 2009, did not give these manicured pixels a matching suburban ethos. A home in The Sims lacks the usual animating forces of family life. Intimacy between relatives is measured in points, increasing or decreasing without any given injury or kindness settling into a memory. A Sims home is not a haven or stage for emotions; it is only a system that challenges players to maintain its various parts. The game’s characters therefore never seem to experience the ongoing dramas of domesticity—neither its tender feelings nor its threat of betrayal, violence, resentment, dependency, scandal, and mutual ruination. As London put it, Sims characters, in their levels of happiness, signify the “efficient choices” a user makes in “object placement and room design.” The game, in effect, exports the density and urgency of the city and its management to the suburbs. The toilet, the refrigerator, and the bed are the chief fixtures of the game, meant to be visited in efficient choreographies of clicking.

This is, ultimately, less a narrative project than an ecological one. The Sims is about holistic relations, the quick and at times perilous responsiveness of one part of the whole to another. A Sim’s mood will plummet if her house is poorly decorated, or if she hasn’t taken the garbage out, or if, in an effort to learn a skill, she’s forgotten to fulfill a need. This kind of hair-trigger existence may explain the impulse that so many players cite of wanting to set their Sims on fire or drown them in swimming pools. Contra popular belief, these users are not behaving like psychopaths so much as feeling an understandable reflex toward entropy. One desires to see the system lurch into breakdown, to dash the finely made dollhouse into pieces...

... One helps a Sim by employing an algorithm, which is often the same thing as internalizing it. Far from providing a nostalgic refuge from the contemporary Internet, in other words, The Sims taps into one of the Web’s most foundational assumptions: that the processes of thinking and producing can be reduced to a series of commands. The user, in this view, becomes more creative as she becomes more machine-like. The rules allow her to manufacture possibilities; she is less an author employing technology for her own ends than an emitter of inputs, a conscript of the machine’s algorithmic logic.

Nowhere is that logic more apparent than in generative AI. At its most basic an algorithm is a set of instructions for achieving a designated result, such as the prompt that one might use to generate email text, say, or an atrocity photo in the style of Hayao Miyazaki. In 2018 Will Wright announced his first project in years, a game called Proxi, which has still yet to appear. In it, players will use AI to build animated scenes based on their memories, which they can then tweak and modulate as they wish.

[is-the-battlemech-cool-or-not]

SLDF - DREADNOUGHT

SLS Manassas

Terran System, Zenith jump point

November 3, 3153

The SLS Manassas loomed in the void, an ancient predator reborn. The Aegis-class heavy cruiser, once lost in a misjump for centuries, had been restored and outfitted with the most advanced Kearny-Fuchida Drive in history. It was no longer just a relic—it was a statement.

Aboard the observation deck, First Lord Alaric Ward stood in silence, his sharp gaze sweeping across the assembled dignitaries from every Great House and Periphery realm. Admiral Marcia Farragut, the SLDF’s Naval R&D Director, stood beside him, her posture rigid, her expression unreadable.

Among the gathered officials stood envoys from Coordinator Yori Kurita, Prince Julian Davion, Archon Trillian Steiner, and Captain-General Nikol Marik. One dignitary was above the station of all the others, only counting Alaric as her equal - at least today: Chancellor Danai Centrella-Liao, ruler of the Capellan Confederation, a woman who had already made it clear that her cooperation in this experiment came at a price. She stood silently, observing everything.

A voice crackled over the intercom.

“Final jump calculations confirmed. Manassas is green for Super-Jump. Estimated time to Sian: Twenty-five seconds.”

The air in the chamber tightened. From Terra to the capital of the Capellan Confederation in less than half a minute—no supply chain, no waiting for recharge, no vulnerabilities.

Danai Centrella-Liao did not look impressed. She simply nodded to Alaric. "First Lord, ensure that my prisoner is delivered before we proceed."

Alaric turned to Admiral Farragut. "Prepare the transfer."

The countdown began.

Five.

Four.

Three.

Two.

One.

The universe bent, twisted, and snapped back into focus.

Gone was Sol.

Now, the light of Sian’s star bathed the hull of the ancient WarShip instead.

Waiting at the jump point, only 50 kilometers distant from the Manassas' emergence point, was the CCS Aleisha Kris, a Feng Huang-class cruiser and the last remaining WarShip of the Capellan Confederation. The WarShip immediately reacted, its massive autocannons adjusted slightly, targeting solutions shifting—not a full weapons lock, but close enough to make a statement.

The intercom buzzed urgently.

“Sian Command is confirming our identity. Capellan aerospace forces are mobilizing, awaiting orders from Chancellor Centrella-Liao.”

Danai did not speak right away. She let the moment stretch, her expression impassive as she observed the Manassas and the assembled dignitaries. The Capellan Confederation had long since ceased being a major naval power. Now, with this ship in their space, they were reminded of what they had lost.

Then, with a flick of her hand, Danai’s aide relayed a single order.

The Aleisha Kris stood down.

Alaric’s smirk returned, but he said nothing. He turned to Admiral Farragut, who nodded once. The intercom buzzed again.

"Bring the prisoner forward."

A moment later, escorted by two SLDF guards, Grady Magnus of Clan Snow Raven was led onto the observation deck. His uniform had been stripped of insignia—his title no longer mattered. His piercing eyes showed no remorse, no fear.

Danai watched him for a long moment. "You burned Chang-an, killed the Chancellor."

Magnus tilted his head slightly. "Aff. And I would do so again."

The temperature in the chamber dropped.

The bombardment of Liao in 3151 had been unsanctioned by First Lord Ward, a personal campaign of destruction waged by Khan Stirling McKenna—but it had been Grady Magnus’ fleet that had delivered the fire upon the Confederation’s world.

Danai’s gaze did not waver. "You have been judged. And justice will be done."

Two Capellan Death Commandos stepped forward, their black-and-green armor glinting under the soft lights. Magnus did not resist as he was handed over.

Magnus was led from the room, and ten minutes later, the assembled dignitaries watched as an SLDF DropShip detached from the Manassas and rocketed over to the Aleisha Kris.

When the DropShip had reattached to the Manassas fifteen minutes later, Danai finally turned to Alaric. “The Confederation honors its agreements. Proceed.”

Alaric nodded. "Prepare for final jump."

The jump alarms sounded, the L-F battery already prepared to supply the second jump.

Five.

Four.

Three.

Two.

One.

The jump drive pulsed again, reality bending once more.

And then, just as suddenly as before, they were in the Coromodir system. The planet of Coromodir V, the beating heart of the Aurigan Coalition loomed ahead them - the assembled dignitaries taking in the implications of the feat - not only was a jump of such distance possible, but it was still accurate enough to use pirate points.

Waiting for their arrival at the jump point was the ACS Dobrev—the personal royal yacht of High Lord Keanu Arano-Cameron. Though classified as a Carrack-class WarShip, it was heavily refitted—a palace among the stars, but still fully armed, a symbol of Aurigan independence and a reminder that the Coalition was no longer a minor power.

The intercom buzzed, the communications officer barely able to hide their excitement.

“ACS Dobrev hailing. High Lord Keanu Arano-Cameron wishes to extend his greetings to the First Lord of the Star League.”

Alaric turned toward the viewport, gesturing subtly for the gathered dignitaries to take in the scene before them.

"This is the future," he said, his voice steady. "No longer do we need months to cross the void. No longer must we fear distance as a barrier. Today, we have crossed nearly five hundred light-years in less than an hour."

The reaction was immediate.

The House Lords and Periphery envoys exchanged hushed whispers. Some looked concerned, others intrigued. The Capellan delegates were silent, but Danai’s gaze was thoughtful.

High Lord Keanu Arano-Cameron’s face appeared on the holo-display. Though young, he carried himself with the poise of a ruler trained from birth, his Cameron-blue eyes locking onto Alaric with careful calculation.

“Welcome to Coromodir, First Lord Ward.” His voice was smooth, but there was something beneath it—a measured understanding of the moment. "The Aurigan Coalition is honored to host this historic occasion."

Alaric stepped forward, nodding slightly. "High Lord Arano-Cameron. It is good to stand before an ally after such a journey. I trust our demonstration has been enlightening?"

A flicker of amusement crossed Keanu’s face. "You have shown what is possible. Now, we must determine what comes next."

Alaric gestured to Admiral Farragut, who issued the final orders for disembarkation. The SLDF delegation began moving toward the shuttle bay.

As the SLS Manassas and ACS Dobrev floated in silent orbit, the Inner Sphere entered a new reality.

Danai Centrella-Liao, the last dignitary to remain on the observation deck, studied the world below, then turned back to Alaric.

"You have proven your reach, First Lord. Now tell me—what do you plan to do with it?"

Alaric’s smirk returned, but his voice was steady.

"Rebuild the Star League. And this time, we will do it right."

The era of distance had ended.

And a new age had begun.

[usafphantom2]

VX-9 ‘Vampires’ F/A-18F Super Hornet Brandishes Heavy Air-to-Air Loadout During Gray Flag 2024

David Cenciotti

AIM-174

The heavy loadout, featuring four AIM-174s, three AIM-120s and two AIM-9s, first spotted on “Vandy 1” at the beginning of September, was not a one-off test.

In September, we reported on a U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet from VX-9 “Vampires” showcasing an unprecedented air-to-air loadout, featuring four CATM-174B, three CATM-120, and two CATM-9X missiles, along with a targeting pod and an IRST (Infrared Search and Track) mounted on an external fuel tank. What made the photos taken at Naval Air Station Point Mugu especially notable was that the heavy loadout was carried by “Vandy 1,” BuNo 166673—the flagship of the Vampires squadron. This aircraft sports a unique black livery celebrating the squadron’s 30th anniversary, inspired by the classic livery of VX-4 commander’s F-4s and F-14s, which previously bore the “Vandy 1” callsign.

The heavy loadout, featuring four AIM-174s, three AIM-120s and two AIM-9s, first spotted on “Vandy 1” at the beginning of September, was not a one-off test.AIM-174B

Interestingly, this configuration wasn’t a one-time test. On September 24, 2024, “Vandy 1,” again equipped with the same extensive air-to-air loadout, joined a VX-9 F-35C and a 422nd TES F-15E in a photo session over the Point Mugu Sea Range, marking the conclusion of the Gray Flag 2024 exercise.

From September 17-23, Gray Flag 2024 brought together U.S. and allied forces, alongside academic and industry collaborators, for a large-scale, joint testing event hosted by Naval Test Wing Pacific and VX-9 at Naval Base Ventura County in Point Mugu, California. This year’s event saw participation from over 3,000 personnel across the Navy, Marine Corps, Army, and Air Force, executing more than 60 test initiatives. With roughly 600 aircraft sorties and more than 26 distinct systems tested on the ground, Gray Flag highlighted the vast scope of multi-domain capabilities under rigorous evaluation. Conducted on the expansive 36,000-square-mile Point Mugu Sea Range, operated by the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD), the event used Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) test elements to simulate advanced, multi-domain combat scenarios in a controlled, realistic environment.

“Gray Flag 2024 was an unparalleled opportunity to bring together diverse branches of the military, academic institutions, science and technology experts, and allied forces,” said Capt. David Halpern, Naval Test Wing Pacific commodore.

The range of participants enabled realistic evaluation of system interoperability, informing future requirements and tactics across domains. Importantly, allied involvement was integral to the event, reflecting the coalition-based approach crucial to real-world operations. Rear Adm. Keith Hash, commander of NAWCWD and Chief of Test at Naval Air Systems Command, emphasized that integrating and operating with allies remains a strategic priority:

“The U.S. Navy operates within a global warfighting ecosystem. To deter aggression and uphold freedom of the seas, we need to test alongside our partners, just as we operate with them.”

AIM-174B

As we’ve detailed in recent months, the AIM-174B missile is a variant of the Standard Missile 6 (SM-6) repurposed for air-to-air engagements. Originally designed as the RIM-174 Standard Extended Range Active Missile (ERAM), the SM-6 serves as the U.S. Navy’s primary long-range anti-air and anti-missile defense solution, integrated with the Aegis Combat System on Navy vessels.

The SM-6 ERAM is a key asset in the Navy’s long-range air defense strategy. Derived from the RIM-156A SM-2ER Block IV airframe and equipped with an active radar seeker from the AIM-120 AMRAAM, the SM-6 is capable of reaching Mach 3.5 and has a range of 200 nautical miles in its ship-based form.

While traditionally ship-launched, the SM-6 has been tested in air-launched configurations as early as 2018 and again in 2021 on other VX-31 Super Hornets, but only this year has its deployment accelerated, with further involvement from operational units.

In April 2024, an F/A-18 was spotted carrying the AIM-174, then, on Jul. 2, 2024, an F/A-18E Super Hornet belonging to the VFA-192 “Golden Dragons” was photographed taxiing at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, carrying two AIM-174B missiles marking the first appearance of the missile on a frontline platform during RIMPAC 2024. At the beginning of September, images of VX-9’s Super Hornet carrying four AIM-174s mounted on both inner and middle hardpoints, along with AIM-120s set a new benchmark for its air-to-air load capacity. Additionally, the ASG-34A IRST integrated on the fuel tank complemented the Super Hornet’s radar, providing advanced tracking capability in electronic warfare or radar-denied settings.

While details on the air-launched AIM-174B’s maximum range remain unclear, it is likely to exceed the surface-launched version when launched at altitude and speed, positioning it among the longest-range air-to-air weapons in the U.S. inventory and filling the void left by the retirement of the AIM-54 Phoenix.

Officially acknowledged in July as operationally deployed with CVW-2 aboard the USS Carl Vinson, the AIM-174B’s availability in IOC (Initial Operating Capability) extends the U.S. Navy’s reach in long-range engagement. Although publicly seen with only inert and training versions, live missiles are likely already available in the fleet.

As we explained in a previous post:

With the induction of the AIM-174B into service, the U.S. Navy joins a number of air arms capable of deploying an extra-long-range beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM), like the MBDA Meteor, the Russian R-37M and Chinese PL-15 and PL-21. In fact, the AIM-174B enables the U.S. Navy Super Hornets to engage targets at much greater distances than is currently possible with the AIM-120 AMRAAM. Integrated with the E-2D, F-35, and AEGIS within the Naval Integrated Fire Control-Counter Air (NIFC-CA) system, the AIM-174B would extend the Navy’s capability to intercept aerial targets at ranges comparable to (if not greater than) those achieved against naval targets using the baseline SM-6.

In essence, this new missile fills the gap left by the retirement of the AIM-54 Phoenix. The AIM-54 was a long-range air-to-air missile used by the U.S. Navy’s F-14 Tomcat and retired in 2004 alongside the F-14. Known for its impressive range of over 100 nautical miles and multiple-target engagement capability, the AIM-54 left a significant void in long-range engagement capabilities.

While there wasn’t a direct replacement for the AIM-54 Phoenix in terms of range, the U.S. military has been developing advanced air-to-air missiles to enhance its fighter aircraft capabilities. The AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile (JATM) is one such development intended to replace the AIM-120 AMRAAM. Although not a direct replacement for the AIM-54 Phoenix, the AIM-260 aims to offer improved range and performance compared to the AIM-120.

@TheAviationist .com

[shuruzy]

chat, Deka might not be a character in Call of the Overseer anymore.

...

...

cause she might be replacing Dirk in Omen of Apsides. With small story/clothing changes of course.

now i love Deka of CotO fame, but her being added did start a style of scope creep that started messing with the ideas of the game. such as the 6 aegis being the only real playable characters. so something like this could be a really good solution.

Plus me & my brother were talking a while back abt Dirk and what she's doin, and some character overlap. In the end we concluded. This team could use a bone of fried NERD bro WHERE'S DA DAMN NERDS IN THIS CAST⁉️

[thosearentcrimes]

Read The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro. Very good book, worth a read, no wonder it won a Pulitzer.

One of the things about The Power Broker is that the whole way through you marvel at Caro's ability to locate information, to extract what are basically confessions, and so on. But it's only at the end of the book, once you reach the notes, that you realize just how exhaustive the reporting is, and how well-founded. And that's just the research that made it into the book in some form.

As far as the subject matter goes, there's too many interesting nuggets to list them out. Here's one though, only one among an endless number of questions raised or implied by the book.

In the 50s and 60s Americans were universally in the business of ruining their cities by running highways through them. Nowhere were they more in the business of doing this than in New York City, where it basically all occurred under the aegis of Robert Moses, Power Broker.

Now, the thing about running highways through cities is that it is consistently billed as a solution to devastating traffic problems, and is never actually a solution to these problems. The reasons for this are mildly complex and quite well-known these days, but fundamentally boil down to the fact that basic logistic features of the automobile make it non-viable as the primary form of transportation in anything that can remotely be called a city.

In the 50s and 60s, this was only slowly becoming apparent as the demand for automobiles turned out to be bounded only by road capacity, but surely the people in charge of highway planning would have been able to notice induced demand early? Like, they would have had to have seen eventually that they were constantly saying the next highway would solve traffic and that it never did? Did they, though? Moses' projections consistently underestimated future traffic on his bridges, for decades. Was he low-balling statistics that could be sold as demand for or interest in the bridge? If so, why?

The book doesn't say, and in fact doesn't particularly indicate that Robert Moses ever became aware of induced demand, but there are a handful of plausible reasons for him to notice and to then conceal it.

Obviously, the first explanation is that making the phenomenon of induced demand public would have reduced political interest in road construction. This would free Moses to explain the phenomenon to car companies, construction firms and unions, and bankers underwriting his bond issues privately to secure their continued support, without endangering municipal, state, and federal contributions. Perhaps.

Here's another one. Let's say Robert Moses puts together a correct projection of the number of cars going on a planned future bridge of his, and he goes up to federal authorities asking for a substantial contribution to build it. If they continue to believe it's worth building even though it'll obviously be a permanent traffic jam, they might still say "well with these projections, you could take on a significantly larger part of the costs with bond issues and still pay them down pretty quick from tolls".

Even if they hadn't responded that way, Robert Moses' power lied largely in his big pot of unregulated cash. That cash consisted of unexpected revenues from toll bridges, leveraged to the moon as new bonds. If he had accounted for those revenues during planning, he would have to pre-leverage them, and even if he didn't have to spend those new bonds on the bridge and hid them somehow, it would have probably made restructuring the bonds a lot less convenient. His money supply would have been irregular, maybe.

I dunno.

Anyway, car bad, damn near everything other than car good purely by comparison (except probably horse-carriage those seem worse). Public-private partnership is an exciting method of maximizing the rate of corruption involved in a given project. New York City is just absolutely dogshit at electing mayors, holy shit, what is wrong with these people.

[byoldervine]

Character Info - Anessa Cantor

General Info

Name: Anessa Cantor

Nicknames:

• Nessa

• Ness

• Princess of Tyrion (title)

Pronouns: She/Her

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Unexplored

Species: Celestial Tyrion

Place Of Birth: Cantor Palace, Tyrion

Current Home: Cantor Palace, Tyrion

Appearance

Anessa has long blonde hair and deep blue eyes. Her skin is fair and smooth. She looks very stereotypically angelic, and when she was young everyone agreed she was the most beautiful child in all the realms. She also has feathery wing-like ears just as her father does

Anessa usually wears white or other light pastel colours, and wears dresses and simple jewellery befitting her status as heir to the throne

Personality

Aegis has been training Anessa for rule all her life, and Anessa has taken it all in stride. She’s adopted her father’s patience and strategic mindset, as well as his keenness for order and organisation. She can come off as a little stoic at times, but she’s confident in herself and her decisions. Out of all her siblings, she’s probably the best at admitting to a fault or mistake, but this is partially due to her having the most ease with spotting and correcting them without getting frustrated in herself. This is where Aegis and Anessa differ; she’s able to accept it more easily when things don’t go to plan and keep a level head that allows her to swiftly find a new solution, whereas it would greatly upset Aegis unless he had a backup plan already prepared

Likes:

• Spending time with her family

• Proving her skills to Aegis

• Ducks

Dislikes:

• Being stuck in the palace all the time

• Aegis taking her siblings to meetings

• The implication of her training

Known Abilities

• Flight - Like all Tyrions, Anessa is able to fly using her retractable wings

• Illusions - Like all Tyrions, Anessa is able to cast mirage illusions, and is also able to cast holographic illusions due to her advanced skillset

Relationships

Family:

• Aegis Cantor (father)

• Lazulai Cantor (younger sister)

• Sy Cantor (younger sibling)

• Mullo Cantor (younger brother)

Friends/Allies:

• General Harkrow (suck up)

• The Guardians

Enemies: N/A

Backstory

Anessa has been raised to be the future queen for as long as she can remember, and honestly doesn’t know much outside of this predetermined path she’s on. It’s left her quite sheltered in terms of the general world around her, something all her siblings have to some extent but aren’t nearly as restricted as Anessa is. Due to this, she’s struggled to find interests outside of her training and studies.

Anessa is additionally sheltered in that she rarely gets to go on business trips away from Tyrion, since Aegis will take either Lazulai or Mullo depending on his destination, leaving Anessa to rule in his absence. Anessa feels some jealousy about that, even if she understands it logically and is happy that it means her siblings get time with Aegis too

Anessa has always been the golden child of the family, and all the siblings except for her are well aware that she’s the favourite. Anessa knows she gets the most of Aegis’ time, but believes it’s purely down to her needing more training than the others since she’s his heir. She can’t fathom why she’d be the favourite when it’s brought up to her since she finds the others so much more interesting than her - why would she be favoured as the boring one?

Despite her life’s work and purpose being to prepare to be queen, the idea of it is quite frightening to her; it would mean that something had happened to her father, and she loves Aegis dearly. It worries her how sure he is that she’ll soon be queen, and she’s concerned about his health due to it, but she’s largely brushed it off as just another of his plans that she’s not entirely privy to

Fun Facts

• Anessa was born in the year 2000, the same year that Byoldervine died

• Anessa mostly tries to copy what her siblings do when she spends time with them; she doesn’t know much of what else to do with others

• Anessa is content with being the future queen, and there’s no doubt that she’d make a good one, but her complacency in her role is definitely impacted by her lack of other options; she’ll be happy as queen, but she has no idea if there’s something else out there or not that would make her happier

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[kisuminight]

So what is c!Karl doing in this AU?

...Well, basically the same thing as in the canon 'verse.

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So it's a bit more complicated then that. DreamXD is basically letting him do his time traveling thing, so he will write books about what he sees time traveling, so DreamXD can search for something that he lost a long time ago, using those books as a reference.

To further explain, we have to get into the basis of the Blade system's life cycle and a bit of ancient history!

So, at the beginning of the world, Blades hadn't really hit "population" yet. Population is roughly 1 Blade to 5 Players, even though not every Blade is in Resonance at any one time.

XC2 has Blades coming from Titans--but we don't have those here. YWKON does Blades growing on trees, which is very cool but there's a simpler solution. Blades spawn when a server is created.

Now, when the universe was young, you'd get maybe 5 - 10 Blades spawn per server. Now that the population has reached its optimum level, you will have a very small chance of 1 Blade being spawned per server creation.

And it's not like the core crystals are just showing up at spawn. If a Blade spawns with the server, the core crystal is somewhere completely random in the world. There is only one way to make sure that a Blade spawns with a server, and that is to offer the shards of a broken Blade when the server seed is being generated. It's a balance thing--offer a broken/dead Blade to guarantee the spawn of a new Blade. No matter how many shards you offer, it's always 1-1 for the spawn rate.

Now people don't go breaking core crystals for fun. A Blade that has been in circulation for a while has more Procedural Memory than a newly-spawned Blade. That means that they will automatically have more inbuilt skill with the powers that they have, even if the new Blade is going to be roughly the same power level.

This comes to the history lesson! A long time ago, there was a war involving the gods and their Aegis. This had 3 notable outcomes:

The Blood God straight up died. He is gone. The current "Blood God" is the original Blood God's Aegis Blade, who ripped their Driver's heart out of their corpse and used it to become the first Heartstealer.

If this hadn't been done they all would've died. The current Blood God has a fondness for Heartstealers because of it--see their relationship with c!Techno.

2. The Aegis of the Goddess of Death asked to have his memory erased in the aftermath. He wanted to see the world they worked so hard to save with his own eyes and explore it as a mortal. This is how we get the current c!Phil.

3. DreamXD's Aegis Blade sacrificed themselves to buy time. They used a literal spell called "Sacrifice," which heals everyone in the party to full heath and does massive damage to the entire enemy party. It also automatically kills the user. This isn't final for a Blade, which reverts to a core crystal, but one of the nearby enemies survived. And used the opening to shatter the core crystal and throw it away, to different servers. And DreamXD was left alone, with no Resonance.

Now, normally smashing a core crystal kills the Blade completely. And no matter how many shards you offer to how many servers, one Blade dead is one new Blade spawn. But Aegis Blades are special. Each of the pieces of the core crystal became a new Blade, with the same color of core crystal, same light element, same healer affinity, and same instinctive call to return to DreamXD's original server.

DreamXD wants his Aegis Blade back. His very first friend. Maybe then they can go back to the beginning, where everything was good and happy.

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To get back to the point, DreamXD gave Karl his time traveling powers so he could use Karl's stories to track down the Blades made from the pieces of his Aegis when they were called back to the server.

Karl was chosen for this task partly because DreamXD picked up a bit of lingering energy on him, where he'd met and been around one or more of the Blades (c!Dream, Mamacita, Drista). Karl's adventures did lead to him locating Cornelius and claiming that Blade after Cornelius' apparent "death" in The Village that Went Mad.

The reason that Karl is having memory issues in this AU is that his brain just isn't built to process the time travel magic that he has. He is a non-Blade, who has been given access to Blade magic, without actually being in Resonance. Every time he time travels, the magic is using his memories to help build a frame of reference, and then the magic is putting them back incorrectly, because Karl's brain does not save memories the way a Blade's half-digital existence would.

As an example, Karl's mind is like a library. Every time the time travel powers activate, books are removed from the shelves. But without being a Blade or in Resonance with a Blade, the books are being put back wrong. Either they've been shelved wrong (emotions connecting to the wrong memories, thoughts triggering things that are unrelated) or they haven't been put back at all (there's empty spaces, in the bookshelves of Karl's mind). It's not that they're gone, it's just a mess. If he were a Blade, the memories would sort back automatically. If he were in Resonance with a Blade, then that would act as a "librarian" and slowly help get his mind back in order.

[nihiladditaenihilperdidi]

Character: Sedona Genn

𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐍𝐄: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄.  

Name:  Sedona "Sed" Genn

Alias: Arizona

Eye color: Brown and blue

Hair style / color: Black, dyed yellow or white

Height:  6'0"

Clothing style: Aloha punk

Best physical feature: My writing partners say face and back. He says his arms.

𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐖𝐎: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄.  

Your fears: “You wanna know what bein' hung upside down does to the brain?"

Your guilty pleasure: “Candy." (Deadly experiments.)

Your ambitions for the future: “Findin' out who did this to me." 

𝑻𝑯𝑶𝑼𝑮𝑯𝑻𝑺.  

Your first thoughts waking up: “Has someone broken in." (Where's his mouse.)

What do you think about most: “People got answers for this?"

What do you think about before bed: "Family, work, the woman I'm holdin'.” 

What do you think your best quality is: “Not thinkin' I got a best quality.” 

𝑾𝑯𝑨𝑻’𝑺 𝑩𝑬𝑻𝑻𝑬𝑹?  

Single or group dates: “Single.” *he makes a face at the question*

To be loved or respected: “Ariel said it. If you don't respect me, you ain't gonna love what I gotta say.”

Beauty or brains: “Common sense.” 

Dogs or cats: “Neither.” 

𝑫𝑶 𝒀𝑶𝑼…  

Lie: “Duh.” 

Believe in yourself: “What kinda love-yourself hippie question is that?” 

Believe in love: “Like it's magic or somethin'?” 

Want someone: “Sure. No. Maybe.” 

𝑬𝑽𝑬𝑹 𝑩𝑬𝑬𝑵…  

Been on stage: “Kinda sorta.” 

Done drugs: “Some of em.” 

Changed who you were to fit in: "At first."

𝑭𝑨𝑽𝑶𝑹𝑰𝑻𝑬𝑺.  

Favorite color: “I guess red-orange.”

Favorite animal: “Mmmmouse.” 

Favorite movie: “Uh, 964 Pinocchio.” (The People Under the Stairs)

Favorite book: “The Aegis Solution by John David Krygelski.” 

Favorite game: “Super Mario Land.” 

𝑨𝑮𝑬.  

Day your next birthday will be: “April 7th.” 

How old will you be: “A thousand.” (53)

Age you lost your virginity: "Don't remember."

𝑰𝑵 𝑨 𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑺𝑶𝑵.  

Best personality: “Playful.” 

Best eye color: “Somethin' bright.” 

Best hair color: “Whatever actually looks good on em.” 

Best thing to do with a partner: "Stupid shit." 

𝑭𝑰𝑵𝑰𝑺𝑯 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑺𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑵𝑪𝑬.  

I love: "freedom."

I feel: “not much.” 

I hide: “from cops.” 

I miss: “my family.” 

I wish: “I knew why.” 

[dragoneyes613]

By now we’re all too familiar with the woke litany of white privilege; all white people are irredeemably racist oppressors; all people of color are eternally victims; people of color can’t be racist because being racist depends on having power and non-whites have none. (This latter should come as news to the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, as well as the Mayors of New York, Chicago, and other major cities, the Lieutenant Governors of Virginia and North Carolina, etc.)

A corollary to this ludicrous philosophy is that Jews, who are often considered to be “white adjacent,” notwithstanding that a majority of Israeli Jews are themselves people of color from the Middle East or North Africa, are labeled as oppressors having “Jewish privilege.” What, pray tell, is Jewish privilege? The privilege of being persecuted for millennia? Our temporary economic success in America, which is increasingly being rolled back as the tide of DEI pushes Jews out of corporate America and universities, making it increasingly difficult to be accepted into medical, law, or other professional schools? The privilege of being assaulted on the streets of our major cities and the campuses of our elite universities? As John Stossel would say, “Give me a break!”

In fact, I submit that the real racial privilege in operation today is Palestinian privilege. Before proceeding we should emphasize that unlike the Leftist myth that all whites, even the poorest of the poor in Appalachia, benefit from “white privilege,” in the case of Palestinians the main beneficiaries are their leaders who live in luxury in Qatar and elsewhere on funds skimmed from the billions of dollars in alms they receive from the U.S., the European Union, and other guilt-ridden parties. Let me cite a few examples:

Of all the refugee populations in recent history, only the Palestinians have their own dedicated United Nations relief agency, UNRWA, which serves to keep them permanently in refugee camps awaiting their triumphant return to the land of Israel. All others come under the aegis of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and are resettled in countries that will accept them. There are countries willing to accept Palestinian immigrants, but that solution is unacceptable to the UN and most of its member nations.

Moreover, only the Palestinians are able to inherit refugee status from one generation to the next. Very few of the Arabs who left the Palestine Mandate (Eretz Yisrael) at the urging of their leaders to make room for the invading armies that were expected to drive the Jews into the Mediterranean remain alive. Today’s “Palestinian refugees” are largely their descendants to the fourth and even fifth generations.

Besides keeping the Palestinian “refugees” in squalor, UNRWA works hand-in-hand with their leaders in making their facilities available for storing weapons, in teaching Palestinian children from kindergarten on to hate Jews and want to kill and be killed as “holy” martyrs, providing the hate-filled textbooks they use, and employing members of Hamas as teachers. Some UNRWA employees and affiliates even participated in the slaughter of October 7, as did hundreds of “innocent” Gazan “civilians” who followed the terrorists across the border to participate in the murderous orgy.

Palestinians in Area C, which under the Oslo accords is supposed to be under Israeli security control, are building thousands of illegal structures funded by the European Union in order to encircle and cut off the Israeli “settlements” in Judea and Samaria in preparation for the expulsion of the half million Israelis living beyond the green line, to be aided by American sanctions. They even destroy or discard any Jewish artifacts they find to promote their fiction that Jews have no connections to the Holy Land, with the full cooperation of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which has declared everything from the Temple Mount to the Cave of Machpelah outside Hebron, where our Patriarchs and Matriarchs are buried, as “Palestinian historic sites.” The Israeli government has allowed these practices to proceed virtually unopposed, presumably fearing the reaction of the Western world in the event of interference with the Palestinian project.

In the past three years, during the Biden administration, Palestinian privilege has been elevated to new heights. The U.S. State Department, staffed with anti-Zionist activists at the upper levels, has appropriated funds for investigating supposed Israeli misconduct in Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank). The policy on Israeli “settlements” has reverted back from the Trump policy that they aren’t illegal under international law, and, some say, even from Trump’s predecessors, to the Carter administration policy that they are illegal. The Biden administration, alleging widespread “settler violence,” (most of which is actually self-defense against Palestinian attackers) has begun sanctioning individuals and communities, with the full cooperation of Israeli banks in de-banking these people.

In academia, the delegitimization of Israel is proceeding apace, led by the elite universities, especially by Departments of Middle East Studies, which are largely funded by Qatar. Every Palestinian-inspired accusation of Israeli “genocide,” (even though the Palestinian population has increased sevenfold since 1948) is breathlessly reported and amplified by both the global and American media, and even when the lies are disproved, as in the case of the false report that Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza when in fact the explosion was the result of a rocket fired by the Palestinians fell short of its target in Israel and landed in the parking lot (not to mention that the casualty figures were inflated by a factor of ten), retractions are slow in coming, if at all. The same calumnies are now being spread by K-12 teachers across the nation, most notably in Berkeley, California, the birthplace of contemporary student radicalism. After a day or two of sympathy for the Israeli victims – as Dara Horn writes, “People love dead Jews” (just not live ones), even before the Israelis counter-attacked, the world transferred its sympathies to the Gazan civilians, even though they elected Hamas and the great majority still support terrorism and even participated in the slaughter, as previously mentioned.

The Biden-Harris administration is increasingly working to assure the survival of Hamas, as exemplified by the Vice-President’s warning of potential consequences for Israel if it enters Rafah and most recently by abstaining, rather than vetoing, a resolution sponsored by the ten non-permanent members of the UN Security Council and supported by Russia and China, calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza for the month of Ramadan not directly linked to release of hostages leading to a permanent cease-fire. (The latter two tyrannies had earlier vetoed an American resolution that called for a cease-fire linked to hostage release.) There is widespread speculation by supporters of Israel that this action was undertaken to mollify Islamist voters in Michigan and Nevada in advance of the November elections. Going further, the administration has proposed an extraterritorial pier to supply “humanitarian aid” to Gaza under the control of Hamas’ ally Qatar, which assures that it will be used to smuggle jihadis and advanced weapons to the terrorists.

The UN Secretary-General, while deploring the October 7 atrocities, said they didn’t happen in a vacuum, implying that they were justified by Israel’s mistreatment of the Palestinians.

President Biden, after initially expressing doubt about Hamas’s claim of 30,000 casualties, all civilian, was so chastised on every side that he now accepts all such claims as gospel truth. He now says that Israel has “gone too far” while failing to acknowledge that Israel’s ratio of civilians to terrorist fighters killed is scarcely more than 1:1, the lowest such ratio in modern history, and experienced field commanders such as British Colonel Richard Kemp, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as John Spencer, the chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point, who served two tours in Iraq and has made two visits to Gaza during the current war to observe operations there, assert that the IDF is the most moral army in the world, exceeding even the US and the UK in its efforts to minimize civilian casualties.

[balladetto]

i have, admittedly, a limited sample size so i'm probably only half-right when i say i think most people who've been playing eow are at the stage where this won't be a spoiler, but! this post is going to be Important because it discusses aegis' mutism extensively! particularly in regards to what the game does with it in the ending

i want to first touch on how i interpret aegis' nonspeaking status as a combination of being literally unable to because of null and the guilt of turning out 'okay' compared to the rest of the kids ( not how i would put it, but it is how he would put it ) who also escaped stymieing his desire to; in the sense that he doesn't feel deserving of speaking again when the others' recoveries have stalled for so long now

i do think he does, as speculated ingame, believe that getting rid of the rifts might do something significant for him ( not the same as believing he'll be able to speak again ) and the others and wants to make that happen, though not because it would 'fix' them or "return them [to] normal"

rather, it would be like returning things that were unfairly taken. he feels stolen from and unwittingly projects that onto the others — subliminally revenge-coded* motivation, essentially! but he'd call it dealing justice if you asked him

*in saying this, please note that his kindness is still very much present and exists on the same level as all of this as something that drives him to do what he does

anyway. in defeating null, it is heavily implied through a silent ( we're not aware of what the characters say but they are shown to be speaking ) ending cutscene that aegis completely regains his ability to speak. just like that. which. kind of grates me, honestly!

it's not an easy solution narratively speaking, because aegis has been fighting for years and you have to go through the entire game for it, but it feels like such a cop-out? i can see the reasoning behind this decision ( a character losing something 'fundamental' and having it returned to them at the end of their journey is a nice sentiment on its own ig ) and should not have expected any other level of nuance from nintendo for this particular game anyway, it just...sort of sends an insidious message? like, this is what all recovery looks ( or should look ) like at best and you need to be 'fixed' in order to live a meaningfully happy life at worst

i understand the disabled ( and those adjacent ) experience is not linear or universal, so a link who wants and regains his speech may be as valid as a link who has totally adjusted to and made peace with its loss. but it doesn't feel like the game's decision was written with this in mind, so i don't feel comfortable in supporting it by adopting it into aegis' canon

the process being described as "return[ing] to normal" is. oof

like. beyond link suddenly being able to speak again, those who were also stolen away in their youth are implied to go through the same jump of a 'recovery' of their awareness, spirit/will, etc. in the wake of null being gone

obv, these are not conceptually bad things. but happiness only ever being shown as the state of being 'whole' is not a good look for a thematic idea

as such, my eow link will continue to be nonspeaking in his postgame verse! while i will welcome any other opinions about the game's decision on this post ( so long as it's kept chill, which i trust it will be ), my own decision for this divergence is final <3