01-11-2019, 08:35 AM | #71 | |
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Iceland*
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Re: Comment my megacorporation
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*Which is what Duty amounts to. No amount of Sense of Duty makes Duty unnecessary on a character sheet. A character with Sense of Duty will, in his own time, using his own methods, do what he thinks is best for X. A character who also has Duty toward X will have to fit his adventuring and any personal plans he has into the times he's not working for X, not to mention that he is probably not in charge of deciding how he'll serve his master.
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01-11-2019, 08:43 AM | #72 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Udine, Italy
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Re: Comment my megacorporation
Yes, if you are interested in the real estate, and the more you are interested in gaining it relatively undamaged, the more desirable infantry gets. If on the other hand the places where you can attack the enemy are Antarctica and the orbit, well... that's different.
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01-11-2019, 08:47 AM | #73 |
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
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Re: Comment my megacorporation
2.4 million people with a -30 secret is impossible. It will get blown long before that many people are inducted, and that will destroy the company.
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01-11-2019, 08:53 AM | #74 |
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Re: Comment my megacorporation
Help Genesis win the lawsuit without licensing its processes or products:
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01-11-2019, 08:58 AM | #75 | |||||||
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Snoopy's basement
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Re: Comment my megacorporation
Realistically that still leaves problems around secrecy. Presuming they are actually selling ultratech products or services as their business, the great majority of them will need safety authority and/or regulatory approval.
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Oh, and BTW, I think getting into a physical war with the nations of the earth will tank your markets and business prospects. And why would you. Just go to a poor archipelago state and cut a deal for what you need. Going to war against your customers seems impractical. Further edit: How do you propose to keep your secrets with 2400000 employees? Last edited by Donny Brook; 01-11-2019 at 09:15 AM. |
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01-11-2019, 08:59 AM | #76 |
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01-11-2019, 09:00 AM | #77 |
Join Date: Feb 2016
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Re: Comment my megacorporation
Infantry is not key to winning wars at TL8. Air superiority is key to winning wars at TL8. You can see that it the last seventy years of US military conflicts. In conflicts where the USA attempted to control territory with infantry (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.), they lost or stalemated after years of being bogged down (the US is still in South Korea. In conflicts where the USA used air superiority to cause the submission of their enemies (the First Gulf War, Bosnia, Kosovo, etc.), the US was able to declare victory and pretty much handed things over to the UN to clean up.
The error in modern military thinking is believing any infantry beyond snipers matter at TL8. At best, infantry can help the UN organize the clean up following the bombing runs of the USA and USN. At worst, infantry ends up being pack mules to take questionable objectives, using outdated tactics and inferior equipment, that the unbroken enemy will take back next year. Of course, snipers are the exception. A ten person squad, divided into two sniper teams (flanker, sniper, spotter, and team leader) and a command element (communicator and squad leader) can cleanly engage two targets at a time, meaning that they can kill enemies without much risk to bystanders (unlike air superiority). A sniper team can kill two targets a day without difficulty and, sense they are only expending two bullets, they are vast more efficient than normal infantry (which expended 1 million bullets per enemy killed in Iraq and Afghanistan by some estimates and killed or wounded hundreds of bystanders per enemy killed). It makes you wonder why any military bothers with standard infantry. |
01-11-2019, 09:03 AM | #78 | |
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Luxembourg
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Of course, as with the android army, exactly how he got to that point without being shutdown in the early days is left as an exercise to the reader... |
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01-11-2019, 09:03 AM | #79 |
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Join Date: May 2017
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Re: Comment my megacorporation
Everyone, for high-quality products. They´re watchers.
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01-11-2019, 09:07 AM | #80 |
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Join Date: May 2017
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Re: Comment my megacorporation
Sure, but now they play at home. Will the public love a few bombings perpetrated by the nation's own rulers in the most important US cities against an apparently peaceful corporation that provides them with dreamy medical technologies and treatments?
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