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[archimage_a]

This is such a pointless debate. Kelp has already been supered up and barely covered the Empire's needs after you lost 2 planets and Japan.

This is why Hegemony goes wrong, it just wears you down...people constantly insisting that 'No' last time when they said uber they meant normal....This time is the uber version....Until next time.

[Retech]

They don't live shoulder to shoulder. They probaly could live less dense than even surburbanites of today live in. Remember, it's the ocean? It's three dimensional. Land is constricted to essentially a plain.

 

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Of course there are essentially three standards of living: poor, very poor, and well off.

[Retech]

See, I've given up income security for my people in return for a massive workforce of almost-serfs. :thumbsup: Sorta like Russia!

[Grim_]

See, I've given up income security for my people in return for a massive workforce of almost-serfs. :thumbsup: Sorta like Russia!

And do you remember what happened to russia?

[Retech]

Massive bloody revolution...

 

But that won't happen to me, since my males are dunces. So it all works out.

[The Dark Lord]

I'm so tempted to be sarcastic right now.

 

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Breaking News

 

The South Rises Again!

 

This morning, millions of dead Confederate soldiers rose from their graves (including dead white Americans) and started a revolution. They have established the Confederate States of America after defeating the Brazilian population in the area.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJsHv0uPstk&NR=1&feature=fvwp

 

The hell?

[Retech]

We knew that was going to happen some day. I'm sending an envoy immediately!

[Wisp]

Hehe, the habitats in that area probably destroyed their graves during construction.

 

Confederacy Ghosts 0 Brazil 1

[Retech]

They're not ghosts, they're skeletons! :)

[The Dark Lord]

Some marines from the BFMC have been experimenting with nuclear weapons. Fired from HAV (Lancelots and Galahads) vehicles, these warhead-tipped rockets are effective for firing ahead of the front lines into enemy territory, thus wiping out hordes of enemies. Some "nuke proof" bases are being tested. While unable to survive a direct hit from a class-C WMD (nukes and gravity bombs), these bases are designed to withstand the shock waves from a nuclear strike.

 

Further testing with drop ships continues as part of the war games.

 

Britannian citizens have voted for the Federalists again during the last presidential elections.

 

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As far as infrastructure is concerned, the massive infrastructure-building efforts have come to a conclusion. Infrastructure will now be constantly maintained, and new infrastructure will be built, although not as much as it was shortly after the exodus from Earth.

 

Construction has began for the Brython Research Station. It will be an orbital station around New Eden.

 

The Genesis Foundation has raised over 100 billion.

 

Research has been completed for the gay bomb. This "bomb" contains a powerful aphrodisiac that causes combatants to become incapacitated because of "sudden and extreme desire and affection to one another." In other words, it causes enemy combatants to start having sex with each other in the middle of a battle field. Bow chika bow wow!

 

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Ranking system for weapons of mass destruction:

Class-A: Planet-busters

Class-B: Weapons that are capable of destroying a large landmass but not an entire planet

Class-C: Nukes and Gravity Bombs (capable of destroying cities and provinces)

[Retech]

I was looking at the old hegemony thread and I found Dusty's research about turning used to be arable land into arable. Considering my race has already developed advanced agriculture for the last... hundred years... Then tada, nutrient problem solved.

[Wisp]

I was looking at the old hegemony thread and I found Dusty's research about turning used to be arable land into arable. Considering my race has already developed advanced agriculture for the last... hundred years... Then tada, nutrient problem solved.

That was for making it rain more in deserty places. If you need rain then... yeah.

[Retech]

Well basically it says non arable > arable and intensive use of land is arable > non arable.... sooooo yah. :thumbsup:

[The Dark Lord]

We have lost communication from several cargoships containing large amounts of much-needed kelp that were being sent to the Lichtes as part of our usual exports. The Britannian Trade Service is currently investigating the cause of this problem.

 

Without the kelp, the Lichtes will be short of their usual supply of kelp. This can cause problems with their food rations, perhaps causing starvation in areas of the Licht Empire.

 

The BTS apologises for this inconvenience, and we will find a solution to the problem as soon as possible.

[Retech]

You export kelp? I never knew that. Besides, according to my calculations, there's a surplus of kelp, so not to worry. :thumbsup:

[archimage_a]

"Hello, this is your Moderator speaking. There is absolutely no cause for alarm."

 

 

 

"The Urk-Orz are not planning to invade"

 

 

 

"Please make no efforts to increase alertness. There is no reason to."

 

 

"Thank you."

[Retech]

The Lichten empire begins equipping soldiers and the civilian militia with coilguns, while building new ships (since before, efforts were to bring PP production over 100,000)

 

 

"Hello, this is King George speaking. We are definitely not communist, so don't get your hopes up. Also, we will pay the fee to have the Lichten empire broadcast its bloody fun on our television channels. War and gore, not peace and love, is what its all about!"

 

"Thanks"

[The Dark Lord]

The BTS has discovered that a few of the cargo ships en route to the Licht Empire were destroyed. We still have yet to find out if they were destroyed by some natural celestial object or if there was some kind of strange and unusual malfunction. The rest of the envoy of ships have made it to the Licht Empire and are now delivering goods as if nothing had happened.

 

There was a transmission from the doomed ships, though:

 

"We have lost a few ships, sir. We have tried a different route to the Licht Empire through space, and we're experiencing a lot of radiation. (brief silence) My God. Radiation levels are off scale. We're [crackle] die! [static]"

 

The route has been revealed by checking the last moments of data from the ships. We have detected large amounts of gamma radiation and x-rays coming from an area along this path. This is most likely what destroyed the ships, not some malfunction.

[archimage_a]

Sol is not about to go nova.

[The_Mather1]

New scientific evidence shows drinking sulphuric acid and cyanide is good for your health.

[Nero]

Heimdall makes sense, he is the Norse God that will start Ragnarok. The herald of the last battle. :P

That would be Loki starting it and Thor being the herald.

 

Heimdall was the link between the gods and the men, he was also the one to be the last surviving god, slaying and being sloughtered by Loki, thus ending Ragnarok.

A herald is the one to lead one side into war.

I get it, you're Norwegian. So am I. The difference is that I'm actually a pagan so I know quite a bit more about this than you do.

 

First, a herald doesn't lead a side into war. A herald would be the one that would notify someone that a war is coming.

 

Heimdall is the guardian of the gods and of the link between Midgard and Asgard, the Bifrost Bridge. Legends foretell that he will sound the Gjallarhorn, alerting the Æsir to the onset of Ragnarök where the world ends and is reborn.

 

In Norse mythology, Gjallarhorn (Old Norse "yelling horn"[1]) is the horn with which the gatekeeper god, Heimdallr, announces Ragnarök. As said in the Völuspá :

Leika Míms synir,

en mjötuðr kyndisk,

at inu gamla

Gjallarhorni;

hátt blæss Heimdallr,

horn er á lopti;

mælir Óðinn

við Míms höfuð.

 

Fast move the sons

of Mim, and fate

Is heard in the note

of the Gjallarhorn;

Loud blows Heimdall,

the horn is aloft, [...]

To the head of Mim

does Othin give heed.

[Seraphi]

Burn on Mather :P

[The_Mather1]

He's a watcher of sorts, what he does is warn the others. That's not what heralds do, heralds lead the battles, and that's Thor's job.

[Nero]

He's a watcher of sorts, what he does is warn the others. That's not what heralds do, heralds lead the battles, and that's Thor's job.

A herald is a bloody messenger you nitwit. Please provide me with 1 single battle, at any point in the Earth's history, where a messenger led (literal definition) an army into battle.

 

Besides, Thor isn't even the Norse God of war.

 

Wikipedia entry on heralds:

Heralds were originally messengers sent by monarchs or noblemen to convey messages or proclamations - in this sense being the predecessors of the modern diplomats

[Wisp]

Dusty, just PMed archi about moderating what we're doing. Is rocco in too?