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Request for Assertion of Farce Rule
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| Verence_Terrawin | Date: Tuesday, 10 Jul 2012, 3:44 AM | Message # 1 |
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| Space is an ineffably big place.. Like inexpressibly big - we are creatures of "middle world" and cannot truly appreciate this fact. To try, maybe watch Carl Sagans cosmos.
Now, in the Empire Strikes Back the Galactic Empire dispatches hundreds of probe droids and happens to turn up the rebel base by what is described in all accounts as a sheer fluke of luck. However, the rebel base was on a planet in a system which had by all accounts been visited and charted in the past.. Thus while searching every system was time consuming it was at least within the realms of possibility.
What is improbable to the point of being almost impossible is to "by luck" detect stations in interstellar space. Why you ask?
Because space is freaking big. And space stations are in comparison to space - very small. Now, by all accounts sensors do not work while in hyperspace - precluding the possibility of higher speed scanning (which would still be like a lottery win) - this would mean probes or ships would have to comb interstellar space randomly, at sublight speeds to find the stations. This would take billions of years.. (bear in mind space is three dimensional as well as huge) - even cruising around at close to lightspeed could take hundreds of years to even search an area between two given stars.
The Alsakan stations are in deep space, with few outside the senior officer/bridge crew even aware of their location, it is each time approached by a roundabout route when being resupplied. These are well kept secrets by a highly professional core worlds Navy - thus the chance of a group of slavers could discover them is nil.
The argument is going to be made "you should've contested it earlier". The post itself was made on June 20. During this time I was just out of hospital suffering from pneumonia with complications. The thread has no indication that it is relevant to my characters (from its title or subtitle), I did not have the energy or inclination to read the whole forum during this period was I was on a cocktail of antibiotics, codeine, tramadol and morphine.
No effort was made to bring the thread to my attention - as soon as I saw it I contested the action in the strongest possible terms. As previously stated the thread title and subtitle had no indication of relevance.
Equally farcical is the fact that this is not the first time this roleplayers' characters have made completely random "lucky finds" and it's really a very tired card - such posts negate those who actually work and roleplay to get information or progress their organisations.
An example of this might be the People's Front of Dantooine, who actually work to progress their forces and have accumulated ships largely through roleplay and not request - wheras certain organisations miraculously continue to expand via request.
So - in conclusion I'd like to have the thread in which Adams slavers discover the Alsakan base through a sheer turn of luck to be overturned and stricken from the record.
Verence Terrawin
Senator of Alsakan
First Lord of the Foreign Office, Alsakan
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| Karth_DeQora | Date: Wednesday, 11 Jul 2012, 3:04 PM | Message # 2 |
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| Post forthcoming before I pass out.
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| Jace_Varitek | Date: Wednesday, 11 Jul 2012, 11:21 PM | Message # 3 |
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| I think this is adequately addressed here. If not, we can re-open and reconsider this thread.
Jace Varitek
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