From: "Old Man Tom"
To: Soc.Fen.Military
Subj: Re: Worst Case Scenario
As a certain individual who shall remain nameless put it when Mal Fnord was subpoenaed to address a Senate sub-committee, "drop rocks. Big fucking rocks." Well, big enough to completely flatten Groom Lake or Cheyenne Mountain and obliterate one of their carrier groups, anyway. If they didn't sue for peace after that, we keep dropping rocks until they run out of military bases.
(Can you tell I'm really not in a good mood with the US government at the moment? It's a long, off-topic story why, but suffice it to say my relationship with the state of Illinois just gets worse every time I set foot there...)
Or since the US has exactly one 'wavetech vessel in active service, and not a particularly well-armed one at that, we could just sort of quietly ignore them until they get bored or embarrassed. Maybe let the Stingray fire a single missile volley at Arisia for the honour of the flag and then accept their surrender, put them all up in a motel for a night and offer a ceasefire agreement along the lines of "we'll pretend this never happened if you will"?
To: Soc.Fen.Military
Subj: Re: Worst Case Scenario
As a certain individual who shall remain nameless put it when Mal Fnord was subpoenaed to address a Senate sub-committee, "drop rocks. Big fucking rocks." Well, big enough to completely flatten Groom Lake or Cheyenne Mountain and obliterate one of their carrier groups, anyway. If they didn't sue for peace after that, we keep dropping rocks until they run out of military bases.
(Can you tell I'm really not in a good mood with the US government at the moment? It's a long, off-topic story why, but suffice it to say my relationship with the state of Illinois just gets worse every time I set foot there...)
Or since the US has exactly one 'wavetech vessel in active service, and not a particularly well-armed one at that, we could just sort of quietly ignore them until they get bored or embarrassed. Maybe let the Stingray fire a single missile volley at Arisia for the honour of the flag and then accept their surrender, put them all up in a motel for a night and offer a ceasefire agreement along the lines of "we'll pretend this never happened if you will"?