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Gravity Cant Apple
Jun 25, 2011

guys its just like if you had an apple with a straw n you poked the apple though wit it n a pebbl hadnt dropped through itd stop straw insid the apple because gravity cant apple

Rincewind posted:

##Make a diplomatic offer to help them. :can:

This. Let's see how far this rabbit hole goes.

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GenderSelectScreen
Mar 7, 2010

I DON'T KNOW EITHER DON'T ASK ME
College Slice
Whoa whoa whoa guys, we chose to befriend them, now we want to turn our backs on them? Where the gently caress were you guys when the Raj was loving up India?

Make a diplomatic offer to help, because we always help our allies.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Delta Grun, what's that power being hewn
Could it be an eldritch threat from ages past?
And do our briefings say we must send you there today
To prevent another Lubeck-style blast?

Lord Cyrahzax
Oct 11, 2012

Rincewind posted:

##Make a diplomatic offer to help them. :can:

PurpleXVI
Oct 30, 2011

Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!
Make a diplomatic offer to help, clearly there's profit and power to be had in Selatani technology. Declining a chance to profit would seem downright un-Hanseatic.

Lynneth
Sep 13, 2011

Rincewind posted:

##Make a diplomatic offer to help them. :can:

I want to be the rabbit.

Luhood
Nov 13, 2012

Hitlers Gay Secret posted:

Whoa whoa whoa guys, we chose to befriend them, now we want to turn our backs on them? Where the gently caress were you guys when the Raj was loving up India?

Make a diplomatic offer to help, because we always help our allies.

No, YOU guys chose to befriend those freaks. You guys chose to let the Raj roam free. Don't lump the rest of us in with you! We in the Luhood family have been staunch opposers of the Selatani since time immemorial, and it is but the dictatorship of the majority that has forced us to stay our hand ever since. A dead Selataner is a good Selataner, that's what I've always said.

the JJ posted:

Delta Grun

Mostly as an anti-:can: vote

Y'know what, I'm game. It seems the military action is doomed to fail, might as well put my eggs in the viable basket. Changing my Vote to Stealth and Guile in Delta Grün!

Luhood fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Sep 30, 2015

the JJ
Mar 31, 2011
Delta Grun

Mostly as an anti-:can: vote

JesterOfAmerica
Sep 11, 2015

Gravity Cant Apple posted:

This. Let's see how far this rabbit hole goes.

YESSS!

ThatBasqueGuy
Feb 14, 2013

someone introduce jojo to lazyb


Delta Grun will save us!

Bobfly
Apr 22, 2007
EGADS!
After rereading the Victoria segment, I've come to the conclusion that Selatan has not been a problem for us in some time, and their recent efforts seem benign.

Help them out. Let's seek diplomatic solutions wherever possible.

Bobfly fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Oct 1, 2015

AJ_Impy
Jun 17, 2007

SWORD OF SMATTAS. CAN YOU NOT HEAR A WORLD CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE? WHEN WILL YOU DELIVER IT?
Yam Slacker
Make a diplomatic offer to help. Technology is the engine of the world, and Selatani technology can erase cities.

(Whilst secretly sending in Delta Grun to make sure this latest horror isn't successfully pointed at us...)

Rody One Half
Feb 18, 2011

Make a diplomatic offer to help

We're merchants, we follow success. Besides, they've long since gotten out of that destroying urban centers business, they're even making arable farmland!

Raserys
Aug 22, 2011

IT'S YA BOY
When there's trouble you know who to call... Delta Grun!

Luhood
Nov 13, 2012

Everyone and their Grandmother posted:

Offer the Destroyers of Cities our full assistance in devising new ingenious ways to wage eternal warfare upon the civilized world, just for the sake of the lulz of course.

:bahgawd:

skipThings
May 21, 2007

Tell me more about this
"Wireless fun-adaptor" you were speaking of.
##Make a diplomatic offer to help them

knowledge is money, or somesuch

Empress Theonora
Feb 19, 2001

She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

Please, the ones who destroyed Lübeck were the Yian. Clearly that was just a dreadful misappropriation of of the priceless technological patrimony of the great nation of Selatan Besar!

GunnerJ
Aug 1, 2005

Do you think this is funny?

Rincewind posted:

##Make a diplomatic offer to help them. :can:
:getin:

GenderSelectScreen
Mar 7, 2010

I DON'T KNOW EITHER DON'T ASK ME
College Slice

Luhood posted:

No, YOU guys chose to befriend those freaks. You guys chose to let the Raj roam free. Don't lump the rest of us in with you! We in the Luhood family have been staunch opposers of the Selatani since time immemorial, and it is but the dictatorship of the majority that has forced us to stay our hand ever since. A dead Selataner is a good Selataner, that's what I've always said.

Hey, I choose to vote against the Raj's wishes. Don't you dare claim otherwise.

Besides, now it's time for the Hansa to accept their fate. Lubeck fell once, Neu Lubeck can fall just as well.

NewMars
Mar 10, 2013
Send in the boys in green: Delta Grun.

I want there to be a game to play come HOI 4.

Nine of Eight
Apr 28, 2011


LICK IT OFF, AND PUT IT BACK IN
Dinosaur Gum
Remember Lubeck and trust the boys in Delta Grun to do what is right.

Hiveminded
Aug 26, 2014

Rincewind posted:

##Make a diplomatic offer to help them. :can:

vanity slug
Jul 20, 2010

##Make a diplomatic offer to help them.

:getin:

The Sandman
Jun 23, 2013

Okay!

So, I've, like, designed a really sweet attack plan that I'm calling Attack Plan Ded Moroz, like "Deadmau5!"

WUB!
Send in Delta Grun.

That we found out about this from our spies rather than our diplomats implies that the Selatani would prefer we not know about it. Given that they had no reluctance to explain what they were doing the last time they were trying to activate Old One machinery, I consider that suspicious.

And if it somehow turns out to be entirely benign, or if the consequences of sabotage would be worse than the consequences of a successful activation, I have enough faith in Delta Grun's competence to expect them to know to leave the machines alone.

sheep-dodger
Feb 21, 2013

Make a diplomatic offer to help them.

JT Jag
Aug 30, 2009

#1 Jaguars Sunk Cost Fallacy-Haver
Delta Grun.

Aeromancia
Jul 23, 2013
Delta Grun.

Freudian
Mar 23, 2011

Make a diplomatic offer to help our overl^H^H^H^H^Hfriends and allies

Caustic Soda
Nov 1, 2010

Rincewind posted:

##Make a diplomatic offer to help them. :can:

QuoProQuid
Jan 12, 2012

Tr*ckin' and F*ckin' all the way to tha
T O P

As a wise poet once said,

quote:

Some will pull the gun because they want to be stars
Snatching up your life into the blink of an eye
And if you see your cloning on a street walking by
Keep a running for your life cause only one will survive
War is in the street and it's an eye for an eye

C. Seletan Besar delenda est.

Smiling Knight
May 31, 2011

Send in Delta Grun

GSD
May 10, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo
Diplomacy is the sword of Trade and Profit.

Soup du Jour
Sep 8, 2011

I always knew I'd die with a headache.

Make a diplomatic offer. We're all about Prosperity, and what's more prosperous than turning the desert into a plain? We could make our chunk of Namibia bloom.

catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?

Rincewind posted:

##Make a diplomatic offer to help them. :can:

This is the only real choice since trying to fight them gets our cities blown all to Kadath and the Plateaus of Leng, and that's not very prosperous at all.

NewMars
Mar 10, 2013

catlord posted:

This is the only real choice since trying to fight them gets our cities blown all to Kadath and the Plateaus of Leng, and that's not very prosperous at all.

And trying to help them has them sent there first class mail instead. The end result is the same, except one has us trying to stop it and the other is a very good way to have it guaranteed to happen.

GSD
May 10, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo
What is the Besar opinion of the Yian Dynasty, anyway? Glorious Selatani Pact of Eternal Friendship, no opinion, dirty usurpers of Selatan's heritage?

Because Yian is the eternal enemy we need to focus on. :colbert: Hanseatic China isn't going to regain those cores on its own.

sniper4625
Sep 26, 2009

Loyal to the hEnd
Diplomatic offer to help, of course

habeasdorkus
Nov 3, 2013

Royalty is a continuous shitposting motion.
We can profit from their insidious devices, if we obtain trading rights via diplomacy.

Also, we need their technology to destroy the goddamned Socialists who wish to tear down everything that has made the Hansa great with their restrictions on free trade. I demand a gilded golden age!

Cynic Jester
Apr 11, 2009

Let's put a simile on that face
A dazzling simile
Twinkling like the night sky
Diplomacy might net us more wealth than whatever paltry items those Delta Grün goons might see fit to leave intact.

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ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021


GSD posted:

What is the Besar opinion of the Yian Dynasty, anyway? Glorious Selatani Pact of Eternal Friendship, no opinion, dirty usurpers of Selatan's heritage?

Because Yian is the eternal enemy we need to focus on. :colbert: Hanseatic China isn't going to regain those cores on its own.

The official stance of the current government of Selatan Besar is that the Yian Emperor is a monster who has slaughtered his own people and misused Selatani gifts, however, many of the original settlers of Selatan Besar were Yian followers deported by Angkor to the continent. Given the lack of reliable information to the citizens - and even leaders - of the Hansa about the nation, it is left as an exercise to the reader how sincere the official line is and how much Selatani society has changed in the last 70 years.

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